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Our friend who agreed to design our save-the-dates for us sent me and the Dude a few choices recently. We asked him to create something that looked like a music poster, and he delivered. I’m so excited! Now all I have to do is pick one and figure out how I’m going to print them. I had originally thought I would use my Gocco to print the STDs, but some of the designs he came up with are pretty intricate, and I’m not sure I trust myself to make them happen on the Gocco. I have a couple other options:
I think option one would be the most economical, and option three would be the most aesthetically pleasing. Maybe I should compromise and go with option two?
At any rate, here are the designs.
Design #1:
Design #2:
Design #3:
Design #4:
If we went with the first one, we could probably Gocco it. But honestly, I am loving this tape design so much! It literally has nothing to do with our wedding, but I don’t care! I’m thinking that the colors are a bit too modern for our vintage, English garden-y affair, though. So I might change the reddish orange color to a pale blue to make it look a little softer.
What do you think? Which design should we go with? Also, how should we incorporate our wedding website URL into the save-the-date? And finally, what method of printing should we use?
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I think softening the colors will be key. Our save the date tried to be vintage and modern at once. It was a difficult balance!
For me, design #1 is too busy. I can’t easily read it, which may mean that it gets glossed over. As for the others, I like the layout of design #2 the best although they are all good!
Link to ours:
http://pirateandapear.blogspot.com/2009/02/itll-be-bees-knees.html
I like #1. We designed our STDs and invites and brought them to a print shop/copy center. Kinkos said they couldn’t help us. The copy shop (can be found near any university or college) did the set-up, printing and cutting and they didn’t have a problem with our paper weight or text color.
I like #1 the best, BUT, I think that all these designs clash with your English garden party theme. I DO think that you can have modern prints with a sort of English-y touch: perhaps a minimalistic image of a poofy-type flower, or a silouhette (in one or two colors) of a lady with a big hat sipping champange. Just my two cents.
#1 “pops” most to me, but it IS challenging to read and comprehend. Alternatively, then, I’d go with selection #3.
I love #1 (have you tried rotating the “invitation to follow” 180 degrees?) & I also like the #2 tape design.
No. 1!
#3 Definitely because in terms of design, it brings in “save the date” at the top and introduces what it is someone is looking at. i also love the look of it.
to soften it, the blue would be great, what about white or grey instead of the black if it still needs to go softer. what are your wedding colors. perhaps use those?
I like #3 - the design flows the best. I think swapping the red to blue would look great. I’ve used our local Kinkos for a lot of printing, and I couldn’t be happier with them. They also have that fabulous cutting machine - saves TONS of time!
I like #2 or #3, can’t make up my mind about where to have “Save the Date,” if above or after the tape. If you had a B side, you could totally put the wedding website on that side 
But yeah, I don’t have any real advice regarding wedding website placement. We didn’t include the website on our Save the Dates. We’ll be putting that in the driving directions enclosure card.
Like someone mentioned above, the design clashes with your vintage garden party theme. The design is very cool by all means. Personally, I don’t think the Save the Dates need to match perfectly to the rest of the invitation suite or your over all theme. But, it would be flow better if you picked different colors so that it doesn’t go against the theme. Perhaps use the colors of your invites or wedding colors, etcetera.
I do, though, recommend either gocco-ing it or having someone silkscreen them. There’s a lot of black in there so you might get toner marks if you go with laser printing, even if you do it at Kinkos . . . test print it first!
These are nice designs, #2 is my personal fave. But, if I were you I’d stick with something more in line with your English garden theme. I’d find a design that’s a little less trendy.
I’d do one, but maybe work on the layout so it’s easier to read…
#3– I would add the website under “we’re getting married” in the same style.
i like #2! on another note, why did mrs. bee (or whoever) pick a mouse? I have serious issues looking at that icon! I hate mice! haha okay, that’s all for now.
I love design 4 and 2. I also think the blue would be a cool color change. Have you checked out Vistaprint.com for printing. You can sight up for their emails and get 100 free postcards and just pay shipping which is about 4.00. I made my SAVE the dates that way and it was a cool and economical way to do it. You don’t have to use them as a postcard you can easily get envelopes for them. .. if you did the blue switch it would be awesome to mail it in a blue envelope.
I like the first one. Maybe pick three fonts and reuse them, so it doesn’t look as hodge-podgey? I think the idea is there, but just a few tweaks would make it awesome! I really like the font that the date is in on the tape versions. 9/11, huh? I also like the font your names are in on the first one. I like how you spell your name. If I had to pick a tape one, I’d go with option #3.
In my experience Kinkos is super expensive more then what I thought it would be and I was able to get the same printing/cutting done at Office Depot for half the price.
I vote for #4.
#1 - it looks the most like a concert poster to me. I am not totally digging the cassette tape because to me it looks like a bad extraction of a scanned or photographed cassette tape.
I really like Design #3 — you’re right, the tapes are cool!
I think something like Design #1 in a softer font would go best with your theme, but that might not matter too much to you. I’ve said “forget the theme, I like {insert cool wedding detail here} too much to care!” on a number of occasions.
i like a mix of three and four….keep the card horizontal (as in design 4) but bring the Save The Date banner to the top of it (and off of the right side), so that the person reading the card immediately knows that its your STD…
That being said, I’m gonna go with the minority here and say that I think its okay to go outside of the theme of your wedding! I feel that so long as the STD’s is a representation of you and you love it, then go for it! 
I like option 3! And I agree, switching the color to blue would be nice and make it a little closer to vintage.
You really should look into a local printer. We found a small shop in Knoxville to print ours and they were really affordable–I expect they were cheaper than Kinkos. Plus the quality is better. Plus you’d be supporting a local shop!
#4 for sure!
They’re all so cute! But I like the simplicity of #1. Not that the tape designs aren’t supercool, and if they have more meaning for you I say go for them!
I can’t see the difference between 2 and 3 (am I dumb?) but I like them!
i like #1. September 11th! Was it hard to pick that as your wedding day?
I think I like #1 best for the feel of your Garden-y wedding. I think if the colors were less of a stark contrast than the black and white it might be easier to follow.
#1 is really cool, but from the “tape” ones I like #4 the most, because to me the red dots are a lil distracting to me, I like the way you put the numbers
I love #1!!
I also like #1 the best! I think the tape is really cool, but the simplicity of #1 just calls to me
My eye gets lost in #1. I like #4 the best. If they are a certain size try http://www.overnightprints.com for a good price.
I prefer no. 1, but I’d play around a bit with the colours/fonts and word placement if I were you.
#1 - looks great
#4 for sure! Who doesn’t love a cool mixed tape? I think that #1 is a bit busy but cute as well.
I like the tape design, big time! If you are going make them into postcards, you can put your website on the “b” side of the card. Also, think about using an online source to print your cards - I used vista print, make the design into a jpeg and uploaded it for our STDs. It turned out to be $20 for 100 of them - waay cheaper than kinkos and they turned out very nicely.
While I like the *idea* of the cassette tape, something about those looks cheap and amateurish. I love #1 though!
I like number 4 the most. I agree with a few other who thought #1 was a little tough to read. Using an online source to print post cards is quite inexpensive!
I don’t like the cassette tape either. And if you are going to use it I would say “are getting married” instead of “we’re getting married.”
I like #1 the best.
#1!
Hi, have you thought about re-purposing a tea bag packet or a seed packet, to match your vintage English garden affair. (if you look at google images they have some great designs, that you could change). I do like number one though - good luck
oooh definitely number 4, it incorporates all of the designs into 1!
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Mrs. Mouse, Austin
Age and Occupation: 25, Attorney
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 31, Civil Engineer
Engagement Date: December 19, 2007
Wedding Date: September 2009
Venue: Barr Mansion
About Me: I just graduated from law school and will be taking the bar, getting married, going on a honeymoon with my guy, and then trying to figure out what I'm going to do with the rest of my life. I was born and raised in a small East Texas town, but I'm no country girl! I'm obsessed with British accents, fantasy (including Harry Potter, of course), and classic rock. My fiance and I consider ourselves both music and beer snobs--but every once in awhile we love to hear a crappy band and drink a cheap brew or two. We're planning an eco-friendly, casual, English garden affair for the end of summer, and we can't wait for it to get here!
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