STDs (not the kind you're thinking...)

Save the date.  To send or not to send?  From my experience,  most people send save the dates now.  If you think about it, weddings 30 years ago were not as big of a deal as they are now.  Graduation parties today are often larger than weddings were not too long ago.

Since my engagement is going to be a little over a year, I intend to send a save the date.  I may not be having a destination wedding, but both my fiance and I will have a vast majority of our family traveling to the wedding location.  To be fair and give them adequate time to plan, I intend to send save the dates.  In my "research", save the dates should be sent 6-8 months before the wedding.  The more traveling involved, the sooner you send your save the dates. 

After figuring out the details and etiquette regarding the save the dates, I now get to look at the fun stuff.. what will be on it?!  Do I want to put an engagement picture on it (once they're actually taken...)?  Do I want some sort of fun typography on it?  Perhaps a mix of both? Maybe I want a picture of us, but nothing like our engagement pictures, something that is more tailored to our personalities or the wedding theme.  

I searched for an ugly example to show you with little avail.  So we'll just move on it fun creative ones, and finally the one that I intend to copy!

Theme?

Typeography

Engagement pictures

Creative

I think this is neat because it centers around both of them.  Not overly feminine, which many tend to be.

Finally, this is what I want!  Andrew and I are both teachers, so it's only fitting to be with a chalk board!  And, I think it will be fairly cheap to print these out on picture paper.  So easy!  Now to find a big chalkboard...