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Despite being a paper whore, I decided to cut out some paper for convenience’s sake, budgetary reasons, and because I am one lazy lime. Instead of printing and mailing stuff out, we are killing two birds with one stone by letting our OOT guests know our date/location and asking for their snail mail addresses at the same time - picture included for visual interest and to set the tone, too, of course. All they have to do is hit “reply.” Hopefully we won’t need to bug ‘em with repeated emails or phone calls. Honestly, if I had waited to get all our addresses together first, I never would have sent save-the-dates, period; just invitations [hopefully] early enough for out-of-towners to make plans in time.
We wrote a short intro paragraph in the email, then pasted the below:
If you cannot see above images, please go to http://www.___.com
Please copy/paste the following information into your reply. Thank you!
Full Name:
Street Address:
City:
State:
ZIP Code:
Phone:
After about 15 iterations over a week’s time, a few critiques courtesy of my designer bridesmaid, and some down-to-earth and simple advice from the other lime, I’m done!
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What a great idea! I love it!
I think this is a good and practical idea. We didn’t do save the dates, but if we had I think we would have done something similar for the convenience of it. Plus, I’m lazy too. 
i know pretty much everyone does save the dates nowadays, but if you don’t have a lot of out of town guests, I don’t think they’re absolutely necessary. And although I certainly appreciate pretty paper products and homemade stds, e-save-the-dates would actually be the most convenient so I’d have the info on my computer - where most of us live nowadays.
exactly my point, mrs. bee.
my outlook address book is happy, as is my excel-loving hubs-to-be (ok, so i
I think this is a great idea. Most of our guests will know about our wedding to begin with through word of mouth, so I’m not so keen on sending out paper STDs. Will you let us know what kind of a response you get (like how many people send back their info?)
Looks great! Could you tell us what program you used to design the e-save the date?
so far, the response has been pretty good, lucky. i will try and remember to post some results after time has passed.
That’s exactly what I’m doing!~ I think e-save-the-dates are the way to go!
I’m with Luckyme, they are a great idea. But is there a program you used to create the image?
Sorry, all. I forgot to list credits in my above post.
Photo by M. Norwood Photography [http://www.mnorwoodphotography.com]
Adobe Photoshop - for re-sizing the photo from a huge high-res file
Adobe Illustrator - everything else.
can u tell me what site you made this on?
Mary, I used Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator to make the image, then I inserted it into an HTML email in Microsoft Outlook. Hope this helps.
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Mrs. Lime, Los Angeles
Age and Occupation in 06: 25, Design
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 25, IT
Engagement Date: July 7, 2006
Wedding Date: August 5, 2007
Venue: An historic estate
About Me: Between work and wedding planning, I try to squeeze in napping, drawing, random spurts of craftiness, tennis, and eating lots of Sprinkles cupcakes, dark chocolate, and noodles of all kinds. Mr. Lime and I have spent our adult lives growing up together, and we're very excited to finally be getting married!
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