Mailed: Save the Dates

After hemming and hawing over if we should include our website in our Save-the-Dates this early on, we decided: WHY NOT? Folks will have the chance to see how far our venue is and allow them to figure out if they actually want to save the date.

We ended up printing out our website address on some business cards, then putting them in with the final product. I figure if people want, they can use our magnets to stick the web address to their fridge. Or, just, throw it away. Y'know, like you do.

Some photos, slightly edited for privacy:

Dr. Light informed me I spelled "Azeroth" wrong. Sigh. This is what I get taking pictures after a few beers.


Everything looks rather red next to the envelope, but it's really white. Truth!


Dr. Light is SUCH an invite hog! See how many more he has than I do? His are blue.


We used these cute king/queen stamps. I took all the queens, he took the kings. In case of a mutual friend, we divided it up according to who had known them the longest.

What do you think?

Save the Dates: Arrival!

We received our Save the Dates in the mail last night! I promptly stuck one to our fridge in excitement. They turned out perfectly!



On a friend's advice, we ordered them from Overnightprints.com. The site is a bit more geared toward the business side of things, which was totally fine for the magnets we decided to go with. When I look into our invitation suite, I think I'll look at a few sites that are more wedding/paper oriented, such as cardsandpockets.com or paperandmore.com. I'm really loving the tiered invitations right now.

Now to face two challenges: picking out some envelopes that will fit our 4"x6" magnets and our theme, and to acquire all the necessary addresses so we can send these suckers out. Dr. Light has this weekend off from the hospital, so I think I'll push him into tackling his half of the guest list while I tackle mine.

I'm pondering the idea of sending out a little form through Google to our Internet-savvy friends, but there's always a few people who completely fail at online things. I suppose I should have gotten on this address thing a bit sooner, but we've been dragging our feet on finalizing our guest list.

Wish us luck.

The Save the Date!

After looking over the ideas I talked about in the last save-the-date post, we decided to go with the general idea of the books on white background.


(as a reminder)
However, when I finally sat down to work on the invites, I told Dr. Light, "You know we're not going with books, right?"

He seemed to be surprised. I guess I hadn't explained myself very well, in that I was looking at other people's sample save-the-dates to get design ideas, not subject ideas. Oh, well. He was pretty game for anything I had in mind, and as I buckled down, copy of Photoshop at hand, he cracked open World of Warcarft and proceeded to say nothing for a while.

Ah, boys.

Read more underneath the cut!

Save the Date Ideas

Dr. Light and I have recently started discussing our Save the Dates (which lots of people call STD's, but that confuses my poor blonde head every time because I associate that acronym with something much different, so we'll stick with the long version). A while ago we had a somewhat hilarious conversation about the actual invitations that involved a lot of me saying, "How am I going to draw that?!" and Dr. Light saying, "I love cross-hatching!"

So, for now, we are focusing on our Save the Dates.

As our wedding is in late October, we're thinking mid-to-late February for the send out, which doesn't give us a lot of time for playing around with design. I'm the one who will be designing them with my trusty copy of photoshop, and I have very few actual design skills.

Another MUST for our save-the-dates is low expense. The more colors in any document, the higher the cost. I have been trying to come up with ideas that with very little color will convey a fun, happy message!

Cue the massive saving of designs that I like for Save the Dates. A lot of these have been swiped from various places on the internet, and I admit, I did not save the source for many of them. Also, some of these are actual invitations, but I was looking at them with a save-the-date design eye. With that said, my favorite pictures are below the cut!