OBT member Derek Kyle Noel made, yes MADE, these incredible Ouija board save-the-dates for his upcoming Halloween wedding.

For more photos and information about how he made these puppies, head over to his post about them on So You're EnGAYged where Derek also blogs about his upcoming "Gay Boy Halloween Wedding."

Okay fellow geeks and nerds, get ready to be super stoked about these XKCD save-the-dates made by OBT member Jordan! Boomdeyada…

From Jordan's OBT update:

"So here's our Save the Date — we're just e-mailing it (FH did a great job of figuring out how to get to it to go in the body of the e-mail without coming off as spam). Art is by Randall Munroe of our favorite webcomic XKCD (please please visit www.xkcd.com if you have never done so, he's awesome). I'm super excited!"

Ariel and I are big fans of XKCD, and when I showed this to Ariel she pointed out that "of extra geeky importance is that all XKCD comics are Creative Commons licensed — meaning that this is a totally legit appropriation!" Which I did not know, but I'm glad of it because it means that if any of you out there are inspired by this, you too can have some pretty amazing XKCD wedding invites and STDs!

OBT member Alaura got some really unique inspiration when it came time to create her STDs.

"I discovered some vintage posters done in the 1930's by the WPA for the National Park system, and decided to take a picture from one of our hikes and turn it into that kind of poster."

Are these not the coolest STDs for outdoorsy type couples? And Alaura and her Joe are exactly that — in fact, their honeymoon is going to be all about camping and hiking in a National Park. So these are so perfect!

OBT member "Rachel Mann" posted a wedding planning update in which she showed off her X-Men comic book cover-style STDs which are pretty freaking incredible…

"Jarrod and I LOVE the X-Men and Rogue and Gambit are our favs, so it was great to incorporate that in our save the dates. My last name is Mann, so the whole thing tied into each other. Get it 'X-Mann.' Clever me."

Oh man, it works on so many levels, far beyond just being awesome! "Clever you" indeed.

Here's a great DIY alternative for Save The Date cards:

To our closest family and friends… from Alina Adam on Vimeo.

Alina says:

We distributed the video mostly by email (can you say majorly budget friendly?) and then sent a few people DVDs if they didn't have email. Feedback was really positive (I was actually told it was "cuter than puppies and kittens") and it was a ton of fun to make.