Our Save the Dates

The Save the Dates were our first wedding project, and we had a blast designing them together. We decided that since our invitations were going to be on the formal side, we wanted to have fun with the Save the Dates. We came up with the concept together (along with Meg, our friend/Pat's cousin's wife/our invitation designer).

The whole thing is a reference to the beginnings of our relationship in high school, a short 10 years ago, and the things that have happened in that time.

Here's the story behind all those items:

• The pink stub on the left is the parking stub from Thacher Park (where Patrick proposed), for the day we got engaged last summer.
• The ticket along the bottom is from our trip on the Eurostar from London to Paris. We took the trip in November 2001 when Patrick game to visit me during my semester abroad in London. We ate crepes and went to the top of the Eiffel Tour at night.
  
• The "photo booth" photos we took in our living room in March-- a  black backdrop (fabric found at a thrift store) hung in a doorway, the camera on a tripod, Calvin staring at us like we'd lost our minds.
• The ticket stub on the bottom right is from a Dave Matthews concert at SPAC. Our music tastes have changed a lot since then, but we attended quite a few concerts during our first few summers together. One of the first gifts Pat gave me was Before These Crowded Streets, and the album with Tim Reynolds will always remind me of the first time I visited him at college. I'll always love those late 90s/early 00s DMB albums for the nostalgia invoked.
• The ticket stub above is from the movies, at a second-run movie theater that no longer exists (Cine 10, anyone?).

And the back:

Again, fun and informal was the name of the game. A sort of explanation of the high school theme via the prom date thing, another reminder of the date, and our favorite Woody Allen quote. Simple and to the point.

There were times when I wished we'd done something more sophisticated or design-y. I saw so many amazing designs out there, in comparison ours was, well, a bit amateur. But very few of our guests read wedding magazines or blogs, and these got rave reviews.

These went out in March. We ordered the 5 1/2" by 8 1/2" postcards from OvernightPrints.com for a very reasonable price. Unfortunately, the lowest quantity we could order was 250, so we have about 150 left over...  any ideas about what to do with all those extras?