Thursday, March 11, 2010

A Cure For Our [stolen] S.T.D.'s

S.T. D'z Nuts!! God I wish I had a huge set of balls to tug at right now. 'Cause I'd tug 'em super hard and throw down some SERIOUS middle finger flippage at a little shipping company called UPS.  For real. I am so over UPS giving us the runaround about our stolen Save the Date cards that I am going to shit. Seriously. I might as well go ahead and grab a change of pants, because I'ma 'bout to shit 'em. They were supposed to have us sign for the package. But no. Instead, they decided to leave the package on our doorstep, so that any asshole could come up and swipe 'em. Which they did.

The news that our package of STD's was stolen off our doorstep was bad enough. THEN, this happened:  I told Mike that I was getting the runaround from UPS with trying to locate the package. Annnnd cut to two months later and this issue STILL hasn't been solved. So I say to Mike, "Hey, Mike. I say we just email these suckers, or don't send them at all."  Then he says, "No, you have to get them reprinted." Yeah, you read that right. He just said, "YOU." As in ME, not US. The person who has done e-v-e-r-t-h-i-n-g for this wedding already. Like fuck if I want to waste my time addressing and stamping 125 postcards, when we're just gonna have to turn around and do it again a month later with the actual invites. NO THANKS.

BUT. Our STD's are just too genius to not be seen by our guests. We did these STD's like this for a reason. To make a statement about marriage equality. See:

The card is more so a political leaflet parody than an STD anyway. So its purpose sole purpose isn't necessarily notifying guests of our wedding date. So in light of that, this is what is going to happen: We will get the STD's reprinted, and we will send them WITH the actual wedding invitation. That way we will still get our message out about marriage equality, and at the same time avoid extra costs/waste with sending two separate invites. I mean, by this point, everyone I am inviting to the wedding knows what the date is, so they've pretty much already saved it without getting a postcard in the mail telling them to do so.

I am currently working on the invitation design with the uber fun and fabulous ladies of Bon Moment! And I am balls-excited to see their creation! This invitation suite is going to blow our guest's minds. Can't wait!

15 comments:

  1. I hate UPS, and I LOVE your STDs. You're right; they need to be seen.
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  2. Could I get one of those bad boys!!
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  3. HA HA!!!!... yeah, good idea with the mailing... and that marriage equality thing ain't bad either ;-)
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  4. So I took a look at your wix site because I saw your talk about it here and went ahead and used it for mine as well. Let me just say, it looks AWESOME. Like, totally badass. But on the "Us" page, the text cuts off funny, and it looks like weird formatting rather than you got distracted and walked away from the keyboard halfway through typing your name.

    I am now in the real world (of unemployment) after getting my masters, so I'm desperate for something to edit. Forgive me?
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  5. Wow, I would tear UPS a new one. Your backup plan sounds great, because, yes! those STDs must be seen!
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  6. We had a package stolen off our front porch a few Christmases back. So now, I have EVERYTHING that will be shipped to me sent to my office at work instead of home. There's never anyone to sign for packages during the day at home and stupid UPS, FedEx or whoever always leaves those boxes right out for everyone to see. Like, can't you even try to hide it in the little planter bush next to our front door? So stupid
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  7. The fact that these will be included with your invitations makes them even more awesome!
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  8. I don't say this to be troll-ish at all, but it sounds like you are really starting to resent your fiance for how uninvolved he is being. I totally understand that, but you should think about addressing it and working it out with him because it can't be good for you.
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  9. @anon

    troll-ish: NO. Obvious: YES.
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  10. I am loving those STDs. They definitely need to be seen.

    Loving your fiance's dress by the way.
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  11. Love them! Fuck UPS and send them later, they are brilliant and I totally love them!
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  12. Fuckers


    p.s. where is the sex post? I swear I saw a sex post in my reader.
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  13. wait. seriously, wait. WHO on the planet would want to steal someone else's totally random STDs?

    what??!! why?

    do you think @anon is actually mike?
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  14. love how you're sending them with your invitations just to spread the word about marriage equality! you rock!!!
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  15. Dang, I'm sorry that the STD's were stolen! That totally blows. I'm glad you're figuring something out though...especially after you worked so hard on them!
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