Mrs. Eggplant, San Francisco
Age and Occupation: 28, Human Resources
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 24, Associate Marketing Manager
Engagement Date: January 19, 2007
Wedding Date: October 20, 2007
Blogging Since: May 31, 2007
Venue: Ceremony at a cement and stained glass cathedral and reception at a boutique hotel ballroom
About Me: I'm a shopping junkie who lives to discover great deals and a craft addict that loves to scrapbook and knit. My profile picture was taken on the day I got engaged which is why my smile is so huge!
The Eggplants’ Cards of Thanks
December 11th, 2007 @ 6:42 pm by Mrs. Eggplant
I (finally) ordered our thank you cards! Mr. Eggplant and I were married on October 20th, so it looks like I just may make the two-month etiquette deadline for sending out thank you cards (that is, if I can get myself to sit down and pound them out this week 
).
Here is the front of our cards.
To design them, I used a combination of photos taken from both our photographers and our friends. The pictures were edited in Adobe Photoshop and the layout was done in InDesign. I desaturated a handful of the photographs because I only wanted a few to stand out in color. I also used the magic wand tool to make my bouquet pop in pink (top right). Of course, I couldn’t send them off for print without adding a bit of our floral swirl motif.
On the back, I gave credit to our photographers and our friends who took the photos. I also linked our wed-site, which Mr. Eggplant will be updating with some of our wedding pictures. We’re also thinking of using the site to start our family blog.
I don’t have a picture of the inside, but the card simply says, “thanks so much!”
Here is a screen shot of the front-side file that I uploaded for printing. The cards were purchased from PS Print, which I would definitely recommend to others.
I uploaded the files in PDF format and made all my selections online. PS Print is located in Oakland so I was able to drive over and pick up my job, saving myself the shipping costs. The PS Print site was very intuitive and easy to use. Last week they had a 30% sale, so I purchased the greeting cards for a reasonable price. For just a little extra, I also bought perfectly sized envelopes from them. The only qualm I have is that the smallest job that PS print produces is a batch of 250. I have about 125 cards to send out and I don’t know what I’ll do with the extra. However, with the 30% discount, my job cost the same amount it would’ve cost to print a 150 card job at other web-based printing companies, which is why I decided to go with a local company.
During the wedding process I used four different printing companies for all of our stationery needs. I used Vista Print for our save-the-date postcards, Fong Brothers for our invitations, Overnight Prints for our menu cards (which I’ll post soon), and PS Print for our thank you cards. Each company had their strengths, but overall I was very happy with PS Print for our thank you cards. I really liked the finish on the greeting cards, because it wasn’t the super glossy coating that is similar to what a photograph looks like when printed. Instead, it was a matte gloss finish that made our cards look very professional.
So I have a thank you card question for you all: Who wrote your thank you cards? Did you both write in them or just one person? And what if only one of you knows the recipient? Would you both write in them anyway? Thanks in advance for the answers!
27 Responses to “The Eggplants’ Cards of Thanks”
WOW! These are so so amazing. I think the swirly design really finishes the card off and makes it look incredibly professional! DEFINITELY gonna steal this idea 
And thanks for the rec for PS Print… there are so many print co’s out there its confusing. Bookmarking it now!
Beautiful card! And having them printed sure beats hand-making every card, while still being totally personalized.
As far as writing them, we’ll do the same thing for wedding gifts that we did after our engagement party… I’ll get stuck doing everything. My fiance’s attitude is that he doesn’t care about thank you notes since nobody sends them to him when he buys gifts, so if I’m concerned with etiquette, then I’ll do them myself. Yes, that even includes for the people I had never even met before. I really considered only writing them out to people on my side, but I couldn’t stand the thought of his whole side of the family thinking that I was impolite by not sending a thank you just because my fiance was being a jerk!
Those are so pretty! I think we’ll probably steal this idea too! I love the picture of you guys walking in the blue circles. I think all of the thank you cards I’ve received from others have been written by one person. I’m not sure who’ll write our’s yet…I’ll probably end up writing most of them, but I’ll try to get FH to do his family & friends. =)
Beautiful, but this is the second time I’ve noticed this. It seems to be the trend to put the couple’s name on the front of the card. Where is the “Thank You,” inside?
So PRETTY! And you’re such an artist!
Did you do the swirly design yourself? If so, can you share your tips?
Great cards!
My guy and I both wrote in them. They took forever to do, but we felt all the people who worked so hard to make our wedding happen deserved it.
Don’t forget to send thank yous to your vendors…they’ll love you for that.
Gorgeous! I’ll have to work on my Photoshop and InDesign skills when the time comes for me to do something like this.
Also, I just wanted to say that actually, Pei, the purest form of etiquette is that the phrase “thank you” is not pre-printed on the card, that it should be written out. So, I think any style of thank-you card is fine!
They’re beautiful and look so professional! I’m in awe! The price is very affordable too. So did you order the matte prints or the glossy? I noticed you wrote matte gloss..haha. I’m not a big fan of the ultragloss either, but I don’t want them to be ultra-flat. Thanks in advance!!
I’d love to hear more about how you’d compare all of the different printing services you used. If you were going to do it again, which would you use for invitations? Which would you use for thank you cards? Thanks again for posting. Your information is very helpful.
thanks you guys! i actually just learned to use InDesign this year, so it makes me happy that you guys think the cards look nice.
Pei, we printed the “thank you inside.
Lindsey, I ordered the greeting cards and I dont think that there was an option for gloss. I selected color outside and black inside. It was definitely not ultra flat though. I would say that the cards have the same amount of gloss as what you would see on the booklet of a CD cover.
C-girl, good idea! I’ll write a post comparing the differences soon.
Lindsey: Oops, I do see an option for the recycled matte, gloss, and also economy. I actually ordered the cards that fold down to a 5×7 in gloss, which were printed on 14pt cover stock. hope that helps!
Thanks so much Mrs. Eggplant!!! And congrats again on a beautiful wedding!!
As far as who writes the cards - We each wrote the notes to our own family/friends - then the opposite signed their name. This was great for the wedding when it was about half and half. Then my mom hosted a reception for us in my home town which left me with 70 notes to write and him with none. That’s when I knew there was a problem with our plan!! I still have thank-yous to write - and it’s been 6 months since the party. Slowly but surely I will get them done. I’m using the end of the year as my deadline!! I figure better a little bit late than not at all.
Your cards are great!
Aha! I knew there was a reason people did that. Thanks for the info!
Love your cards.
As for who wrote our cards., we also each wrote notes to our respective family & friends but we both made sure to sign all the cards.
WOW! I love your cards just as much as your programs! So beautiful and I love how you had your colors pop! I really need to figure out how to use these Adobe products!
My FI and I always joke that we need a Dupree (as in the movie, “You, Me and Dupree”) to write our cards for us!
Your thank you cards turned out very well! I really want to do something like that when our turn comes around. Amazing! Good job!
I think you did an excellent Job. I love the montage and the use of graphic elements… different than the usual thank you cards… and oh-so pretty!
A+ for you Mrs. Eggplant 
Beautiful cards! As far as the thank you cards, it started out that we would BOTH write and address them… but I really wanted to get them out as soon as we returned from the honeymoon (because we deposited the checks the day after the wedding :)), so I ended up writing ALL of them and signing both of our names… my husband just took them to the post office LOL
What a pretty thank you card! We just purchased cards of various types and used those. As for who wrote what, I wrote the ones for my side, and he wrote the ones for his. Granted, my side was a lot larger than his was, but I had it easier because almost all of my family gave cash gifts, so I could use the same “thank you so much for your generous gift…” message for each!
Those are gorgeous!! Makes me wish I had seen this before I did mine… but mine are long done, out the door, and outta my hands! hehe. I would estimate that I wrote about 60 cards and he wrote about 20 (if even that many), haha…
those are beautiful! omg the etiquette is two months??? we were married in early september and i haven’t had time to do ours. mainly because they’re as complicated as our invitations since i’m trying to incorporate the guestbook photos too…
I don’t see a PsPrinting logo on the back. Please tell me there isn’t one to be seen onthe card! I really want to order custom cards for varoous things I have going on, but everyone seems to want to put their logo on my design!
MJ: no PS print logo was printed on my cards. actually none of the companies that i mentioned in the post printed their logo on my stuff. That would be just awful!
I was happy with our thank you card photo insert with multiple photos but yours looks a million times better. You have mad skillz. 
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