Adventures in things I know nothing about

There are a few things that stuck out right away in my head after Joshua proposed. The first of which is that we needed to do Save the Dates. We didn't actually need to do these but I often see these and like them a lot. Typically they're a chance to show off engagement pictures but I planned to have those done in July when the weather was much nicer. So after Joshua proposed on his trip home, I was determined to have nice pictures taken of us to use for this purpose. I'll show off those pictures that Joshua's brother Paul took of us later.

After we had the pictures done we sat on these until February when Joshua came home again. They didn't actually go out until March - 7 months until the wedding. There are two reasons for this. First, I procrastinate like it's my job. If there doesn't seem to be an urgent need to get it done, it just doesn't register as something in my head. The second reason is that I really wanted to do something creative but I have no experience or equipment to do so. All the time that I sat on the project I could have easily done something intricate with out it being a whole weekend's work. So I decided to use the tools that I have and that I'm not afraid of. A printer and a computer. I found a tutorial on making monograms and Joshua photo shopped us to make us slightly better than usual. Then I kept it simple and just gave the basic information. It was super boring but a big hit with the family. The real star of this whole project was Paul. I wasn't ready for the photo and was laughing. There was no way I could have posed that happy if I tried. It turned out really amazing.
So as you can see I printed out some basic information on one side of the card and then I put the picture on the other using photo corners. The photo corners added a ton of time to this project but the idea was that they could take the picture out to put on the fridge, since it had the date on it.