Technically Christmas Eve, but close enough! I hope wherever you are, you're taking some time to enjoy the holiday, pretty lights, and a warm drink. I'll be heading up the road to Jake and Jill's for their annual Christmas Eve party and then heading home to go to bed early for Santa!

By now I hope everyone received our Christmas card (and if not, send us your address!), but I thought I'd share some behind the scenes information, outtakes, and how everything came together. We really did have a lot of fun.

I'm not sure when we started thinking about our Christmas card. Originally I think we were just going to use a wedding picture, but then at some point I started thinking about doing something with Christmas lights. I wasn't sure what, but we certainly had enough sets of them lying around. So the first thing we did was push all of our furniture out of the center of our living room, which gave us a big empty space to work with. And then I gave Tom permission to wrap me up in them. I think he had a bit of fun:

So that was fun, but after a while we decided both of us should be wrapped up. However, that created a new problem. We'd been using the automatic timer on our camera, which gives you about 10 seconds to run into frame before the picture is taken. Tom would set the camera up, and then run over and pick up his end of the lights. Easy. If we were both tied up, though, how would we run/hop back and forth? We ended up using our GoPRO. Seriously, this is one of our new favorite toys. There's a setting on it which will take photos every 10 seconds, but it also takes a video as it's happening. Which means...there is a video of us trying to figure out how to wrap ourselves in lights! You're welcome!

Once we had all the pictures, I experimented with taking out the background and adding in some text. I used Minted for the final design and printing. I loved the nod to the fact that we were newlyweds and this is our first married Christmas, but it's still a fairly traditional and simple Christmas card at the same time.