Wedding Lab: Creating our Save the Dates Part 3

Finally the good part! haha

Our magnet Save the Dates:

Wedding Lab: Creating our Save the Dates Part 2

I promised in my last post to show you the outside of the envelopes including my faux-ligraphy, and postage stamps.

We actually bought the stamps way before we even started our STDs because I saw the stamps and wanted to use them before the post office changed them again. We picked out the awesome Pansy Love stamps that are purple and actually do go with our wedding color scheme now.

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Wedding Lab: Creating our Save the Dates Part 1

From the moment I started planning, I knew I wanted to craft and DIY as much as I could to try and keep our costs down. I found the super awesome technique of embossing on the web and knew I had to try it for our invites. I decided to give it a test run with the save the dates, and sure, there were a few kinks, but I think they turned out pretty great. Everyone loved our magnets as well as our envelopes. Both of which make me super happy since Mr. ATC and I put a lot of time, sweat, tears, and a few choice words into creating such a masterpiece.

Since everyone received their Save the Dates in lightening speed, I am clear to debut them on the interwebs. First I will show you the first embossing party we had (yeah I said first) where we embellished the front of the envelopes.

Enjoying Our Engagement

I was inspired to write this post and intrigued about how long couples waited after they got engaged to tell their friends and families?

You can read about our engagement here, and about the ring purchase here.

We got engaged in the afternoon around 4:00 pm ish in Switzerland, which would have been around 10 am in the US. We had the whole afternoon and evening to ourselves after the proposal. We went back to the hotel and I wrote in my European journal and we decided to go to a nice dinner to celebrate. We had a really nice dinner and I felt like we were the only couple in the world. When we got back to the hotel it was late, but we were 6 hours ahead and I wanted to call my mom. We didn’t have a phone, but we had Mr. ATC’s ipod touch with a skype app and since the hotel had wifi, I was able to call my mom. I was hoping she would have been leaving work because I know her cell phone reception isn’t that great at work, but I did get through and she stepped outside so we wouldn’t get disconnected. I told her the news and she was so happy she cried. The next day I posted about our engagement on facebook and that’s how everyone else found out besides my best friend and MOH who didn’t have facebook then. I called her the next day as well.

Mr. ATC’s parents and sister knew about the ring and knew he would propose while we were in Europe. But they found out through facebook when it actually did happen.

I’m so glad we waited and had a quiet evening to ourselves before we got flooded with attention and questions. It makes me wonder how different this would have been if we got engaged in the US. I like to think that I still would have waited, but it would have been easier to pick up the phone and make some calls.

So I was just curious about how long you waited to tell your friends and family about your engagement?

Mr. ATC's shopping habits

I hope you've heard enough about my dress for a while :)

I would now like to share the buying and gifting habits of my dear fiancé.

Exhibit A: My engagement ring

Looks so shiny and brand new right? Wrong!

My Little White Dress: Part 3

Okay Mr. ATC, this is the last post about my dress for a while, but please don’t read it. Thanks! Love, Miss DNA

My Little White Dress: Part 2

Again, Mr. ATC, this post is about my dress so please don’t read any further. Thanks! Love, Miss DNA

My Little White Dress: Part 1

Sorry Mr. ATC, this post is NOT for you! Kindly read no further and go do your homework or something. Thank you much! Love, Miss DNA

Drama in the Lab Part Deux

So I mentioned in my post from last night that we broke our printer and that Mr. ATC fruitlessly tried to fix it. He ended up talking to customer service online who gave him a $100 gift card so we could replace our printer. Well that wasn't good enough for him. He went to staples and bought a new one, which also did not work with our magnet paper. The weird thing is, a few months ago when we got the supplies, we did a test run and it worked. I just don't understand what happened! :(

Thankfully, Vistaprint came to the rescue and we were able to use their 8.5 by 11 magnet sheets to print 6 of our magnets on one page to save money, and to get them a little larger than the business card size.

Hopefully they turn out well, and I can finally show you all the hard work we've put into the envelopes and creating the magnets.

Unfortunately, this little debacle put us wayyyy over budget for our save the dates, but I only spent $10 on our thank you cards, so that should balance it out. And Mr. ATC is returning the printer he bought today tomorrow and ordered our new printer from HP with some ink and photopaper thrown in :)

Drama in the Lab

And no, I’m not talking about my new job, I am talking about our apartment. Our Photographer sent over a picture for us to use for our save the dates since we want to get them sent out soon. Well the picture is awesome, and such a tease! I can’t wait to see the rest of them!

Well this picture has become the source of the drama. We went ahead and put the picture into our save the date in photoshop and Mr. ATC played around with it until we liked it. Then he got antsy and wanted to try a test run on the magnet paper we bought a while back for this project. Well the paper got stuck and we both heard a snapping noise and now the printer is broken. Mr. ATC is frantically and angrily trying to fix it. OY VEY! I seriously hope he can fix it because it is our only printer and necessary to finish our save the dates and for everyday printing purposes.

This really puts a damper on our progress and this project. I really didn’t want to spend the extra money on having them printed for us, but it looks like that may need to happen, or spend the money on a new printer... 

Next, I promise a more fun post about my dress :) 

But did anyone else have a problem like this that halted a project?