Wednesday, May 01, 2013

Engagement Postcards from Moo



I am excited to announce that Moo sent my postcards an extra 4 days earlier than expected and now everyone with a known address has received one! I have a few to send out after we track down more addresses, but I've sent at least 80 out and I'm already receiving happy texts about them.


I thought the postcard paper was going to be similar to their business cards, but I was pleasantly surprised when they turned out to be a really nice, firm semi-gloss paper rather than the matte UV-coated paper that comes with the mini Moo cards. (I am sure I could have read the description better.)




While those would be equally amazing, I was happy with the quality and despite being man-handled a bit between addressing and stamping, they held up very well. My biggest concern with postcards is always the potential folding/bending in the mail system, but I do believe these will be resilient.

As always, I am really happy with the quality of Moo's printing and for $110 for 120 cards, you really can't beat that price. Like any wedding planner, I'm on a tight budget and these were a great solution for engagement announcements that doubled as party invitations. I'm inviting everyone to the engagement party since the wedding will be a more limited event of 80 people.



My wedding mailing plan was for engagement announcements/engagement party invites, save-the-dates, wedding invitations, and then thank you notes. Since I'll hand-deliver most of my invites (wait until you see!), I will keep the cost low there as well.

I look forward to working with Moo printing more on my personal branding - I have new rounded business cards, mini Moo tags, postcards, stickers and more in mind!

(This post was not affiliated with Moo in any way - I simply love their products and wanted to share my happiness.)

Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Engagement Announcement Postcards


I've been working hard to finalize my engagement announcement postcard design, and here it is! After my photographer sent all of the photos from our engagement shoot, I decided on this one and got to work on hand-lettering the type. I did it all in Photoshop, using my Wacom Bamboo Pen & Touch tablet. Everything but the white on red text was done by hand.

I am getting these printed as postcards through Moo and sending them to friends and family to invite them to our engagement party, also serving as the "official" announcement.

Before sending this to Moo to print, I'll probably do a few quick light/contrast edits since their UV coating tends to tonethe colors down, but overall this is DONE!

What do you think?

Monday, April 08, 2013

Style 'Grams

My day job is kind of boring, so for the most part, I've really stopped paying attention to what I wear. Silly, I know - I always feel better when I dress up. Lately, I have been trying to do just that - I just haven't taken the time to take "nice" photos, so my iPhone does the rest - especially when I just want to showcase my cute shoes.








I love Instagramming about what I am wearing that day, and I wanted to share some of my favorites. (As you can see, I'm pretty into stripes right now.)

I'm still waxing enthusiastic after my Wordpress conference, and I can't wait to share my favorite bits.  I'm so pumped about my future right now!

Have a wonderful Monday (if you can...)