Stamps

I have never given very much thought to what type of stamps I use... I rarely use them, and often the postage has increased since the last time I bought a few, so I have to keep a bunch of those $.02 stamps around. Speaking of which, I only recently learned (when I was browsing usps.com for wedding stamps) that this picture is of a "Navajo Necklace," not a crazy-looking reindeer, like I previously thought. Doesn't this look like a reindeer at first glance?


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Now that I look at the picture close-up, I see that it clearly says "Navajo Jewelry" on the side. Ha!

Anyway, since we have put quite a bit of thought into the other aspects of our invitations, it would sure be a shame to use those blasé forever stamps, wouldn't it? And, we're going to need more than the standard book of 20 to get these suckers out the door... if we're going to be sticking hundreds of stamps, wouldn't we at least want them to look nice?

You can do your own stamps these days, as you are probably aware, like this couple did.


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I am pretty sure all of our friends would make fun of us for getting stamps made of ourselves, so we're going to opt out of those. I am not really a fan anyway. And, it's difficult to justify the added expense of custom stamps.

How cool would it be to mail invitations with collections of vintage stamps, like these ones:


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Here is a pre-vintage-stamped envelope that you can buy:


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I love this! But wow, very expensive.

The Post Office now offers a couple of wedding-specific stamp options like these:


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... and these:


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I really like both of these a lot.

But I really LOVE the "Love" series. Here was 2008:


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And 2007:


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2006:


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2005:


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But my favorite so far was the one from 2009 (luckily, huh?):


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It's the King and Queen of Hearts! The King and the Queen are each their own $.44 stamp, but I like them pushed together like they are shown above. As it turns out, our invitations will require extra postage, and it might make sense to use two of these--wouldn't that be perfect?

I just hope that the postage doesn't go up again before we send out our invitations. I am nearly out of reindeer.