Christmas Cards That Didn't Make the Cut

For the past six Christmases, Matty and I have competed against ourselves to one up the previous years’ card content. Though we got married this year, we wanted to do more than just “Married Christmas.” Having just gleaned deign inspiration from my shampoo bottle, I offered my pro bono graphic design skills to my husband. He had no other option but to accept.

These are the cards we* (*Matt) passed on as this years official Christmas card:

Created vs Celebrated

After Matty rejected the above, he exclaimed… I GOT IT! COVID - Created One more Violete In Delaware. I balked, “OMG WHO IS PREGNANT!?!?!” Matty looked at me puzzled and said “Pregnant? No - we created a new Violette because you are a Violette now!”

I decided to indulge his creative direction but swapped the word “created” for “celebrated” so no one thought our marriage announcement was a pregnancy announcement. 

Abbreviation vs Acronym

If the year 2020 was available to review on Yelp, I would give it no more than 2.5/5 stars. But I would give Matt’s acronym of COVID standing for Celebrated One more Violette in Delaware 5/5 stars on Yelp.

Too bad I printed the cards with the word “abbreviation” instead of “acronym” in the description. Hopefully Matty’s elementary school teacher mother doesn’t notice and ask me to repeat 4th grade my first year as a Violette.

ALL PHOTOS BY LOVE TO THE CORE