Save the Date: Come Dance with Us!

Right before the weekend, Douglas and I took a trip to the local US Postal Service office to ship out 70-something Save the Date CDs!  Luckily, we only ran into a few snags: 1 missing zip code, having to get back in line once, and an address that simply can't be found.  All in all, not a bad trip.

We were surprised and excited to learn that some folks received their mail as early as Saturday!  We were also able to hand deliver a good number of them due to the holiday.

So, without more rambling, I give to you, the Save the Date CD!

Work Station

Liner Notes and Digital Vinyl CD

How cool are our record cds?  They even have grooves!

Box of Unstuffed CD cases

CD Cover

Completed cases with mailer

With the release of our STD CD also came the release of our wedding website - justajumptotheleft.com  We decided that a customized HTML would make it easier for folks to find.  We couldn't resist making it a reference.

Douglas was a trooper and ended up doing about a dozen or more versions of the CD until we were both happy.  Our lives have extensive soundtracks, so we could have burned an anthology!  We were finally able to narrow the selection down and included songs that have some significance to us as a couple or to one of us individually. I promised you guys trivia, so I'll provide some of the backstories to the tracks in the next post.  Here's a teaser:

Soundtrack available at Amazon.com

 

Track 1

The Universal Theme

by Nigel Godrich
from Scott Pilgrim vs. The World

Significance/Story: The theme music to Universal Movie Studios but done in the style of old school Nintendo video game music.  Movie + 8 bit music = happy geeks.

Single Best Word This Hanukkah - MAILED!

The Save the Dates are done and they...are...outta here!

We cut, we burned, we labeled, we printed, we stuffed, we sealed.  All to turn all of this:

Into all of this...

Look at our pretty mailers.

Don't peek too hard now.  These little babies are well on their way to their destinations.  ETA: 2-5 days.

Of course, all of our work today was overseen by our forewoman.

She's such a hardass.

Happy Hanukkah - Have an STD!

I know, I really am having too much fun with this abbreviation. 

Today we handed out our first round of Save the Dates!!!!  Tomorrow we should be able to get the to-be-mailed ones ready.  With any luck, they will be paying a visit to the post office on Friday!

Here is your first look at the cover - yes, cover.

There will be a lot of tidbits to be told about the Save the Dates.  The first one is the logo.  You may (or may not) remember the ring that Douglas proposed with.  This is the symbol from the ring.  It seemed fitting.

Stay tuned.  Next week I'll unveil the rest of the Save the Date.  Soon after that, I'll be sharing some more trivia about them.