The Nest

STD catastrophe

Posted Monday, February 18, 2008 8:52 AM

I don't know why I have to make everything so hard. 

I ordered our STD cards from 123print.com.  They're amazingly cheap.  I got 200 cards for $15.  The idea is: put our magnets in the cards.  Write additional information on the cards.  Put the cards in the envelopes.  Send the envelopes with the cards with the magnets, in the mail.  Sounds easy, right?

Well, I finally got our magnets from Vistaprint.  They're a little flimsy.  But that's alright, not everyone will decide to post them, and the ones who do love us anyway.  But that's not the only problem.  They're also a little hard to read.  The picture is a snowy background.  Only, it's real Alaskan snow, so it's kinda glacier-blue in color.  Which is OUR color.  But it's also hard to read, and makes the magnet a little dark.  So we have 100 dark, hard to read, flimsy STD magnets.

Not the only problem.  My fiance took one look at them and said:

"Uh, honey?  Aren't Save the Dates supposed to have the DATE on them?"

Oh no.  I grab the magnet and scan it.  Catchy slogan? check.  Names? check. Website URL? check.  Cute pic of my and FI? check.  Date?  Oh No!

So now we have 100 dark, hard to read, flimsy STD magnets with no date!

I took the news hard.  I pouted and cracked up laughing.  I don't know how I could have missed something so easy!  Then I blamed it on my fiance, since he should have approved the final design before I ordered 100 of them.  It's all his fault, after all.  I shouldn't have to remember everything.  Alright, now I'm laughing again because I screwed up something totally easy. 

My Mr. Bean STD's. 

Reminds my when I was in fifth grade, working on my State Report.  I misspelled Georgia on the report cover.  Even funnier, I meant to ask for Alabama because that's where my cousin lived.  I'm such an airhead.

So, I'm going STD bipolar.  One minute, it's an STD catastrophe (try saying that three times fast), the next minute it's the funniest thing since my beaded snowflake debacle.  I don't know if I should laugh or cry. 

I haven't decided what to do.  I might skip the magnets altogether, and just send the cards.  I might say screw it and mail the magnets out anyway, because what are we going to do with 100 magnets of ourselves?  Or I might just call off the wedding, because obviously if I can't handle STD's, how the hell am I going to get the invitations out?