When you do sales and marketing for a living it’s funny how easy it is for you to jump into planning your own wedding since you are constantly “planning” for others. So of course it was only natural that November 20th (one day after getting engaged) we set a date, registered for theknot, started planning colors, sites, guest list etc., We decided to have a fairly small wedding (we made a rule that we could invite all family but we could only invite friends that knew us as a couple) who really wants to be introducing their husband/wife to people on the day of their wedding? Personally, if you don’t know “us” I just don’t think you need to be there. We made our list and believe me it wasn’t the easiest thing and of course we felt bad about the people that didn’t make the cut. We finally got it to 85 guests (statics show that only 55% of the guest you invite will actually show up, and since we are a destination wedding it will probably be even lower that that). 50-60 people is what we are planning on which is personal and intimate, just our style.

Since we had our guests list buttoned up we started to look for our save the dates. We looked on several sites and decided that a picture magnet in our colors (yellow and grey) was the look we were going for. Since our count was “85” (we had talked about the count several times in the last few days) and 85 was just stuck in our heads it was only natural that we ordered 100 save the dates. Why because we had 85 guests coming, duh!

After ordering 100 (because of course you have to order in clusters of 25) and paying $45.00 dollars for 2 day FEDEX shipping to Hawaii we were scheduled to get them in 5-8 business days because of production time. Needless to say I was pacing the mailbox with anticipation.

Finally December 20th FEDEX showed up at 8:30 p.m. with our save the dates! I couldn’t be more excited to rip them open and start stuffing! So Colt and I ordered pizza, put on Christmas carols, poured some wine and got to stuffing! We were having a great time laughing, and playing until boom it hit us (the sinking feeling in the pit of your stomach) why do we have so many magnets? Yes you guessed it we ordered one magnet per individual rather than per household, couple, family etc.,

Talk about a waste of $87.00 dollars especially on a wedding budget! Needless to say the party was over. Although we have had a few good laughs about it now and they are really really cute it was an easy mistake to catch but because of all the excitement it got completely overlooked.

So WARNING all brides & grooms to be in all your fun and glory, stop breathe and count your guest list wisely….lol