I am familiar with the plight of the polar bear. I can appreciate a good save the polar bear campaign when I see it. I mean, who wouldn't support that? They're a threatened species, and they're cute.

But my save the dates need to be saved from the polar bear.

As I previously blogged, I ordered postcard-style save the date cards from Wedding Paper Divas. And they arrived at my door very quickly. But I have been holding them hostage for a few weeks now due to a minor detail.

I picked the postcard look based on one of my engagement photos. When I saw it, my immediate reaction was, "This looks like a postcard!" So I had a reason. It wasn't a cost-saving measure (28 cents vs. 44 for postage), nor was it an environmentally friendly move on my part (no envelopes required). It was all about aesthetics.

So you can imagine it was a bit off-putting, for me at least, to learn during a trip to the local post office (in search of hearts or something of the sort) that the absolute only design option for a postcard stamp is ... wait for it ... the polar bear.

I rushed home to check USPS.com. I texted my uncle, who works for the postal service, to ask him if this could possibly be true. Turns out there are message boards about this very topic. These Web pages are flooded with comments from brides just like me, who think the polar bear is cute and all, and they really deserve to be saved, but they just don't quite fit the look. Most of these comments were more than a year old, and no new stamp has been introduced since. I looked back on the postcard my parents sent me from Hawaii in December. Polar Bear.

It sounds like an insignificant thing to worry about, I know. But consider the careful thought -- and money -- put into wedding stationary. This is not a winter wedding in the arctic, people. It just doesn't make sense. Polar bears are not my fiancé's favorite animal like one bride actually posted on that message board. And we didn't meet in Alaska as did another couple. There is no connection.

So left with the choice to pay extra on unnecessary postage or suck it up and go with the white fuzzy guy, I'm probably going to do the latter. There are some springy-looking 29 cent herb stamps USPS is releasing April 7. But these save the dates have people to get to, and I'm not sure they can wait another couple of weeks just for a stamp that makes more sense.