Weddingbee Blog

Since last we spoke, I sent off the save the date magnets. Here are the details that we included in them:

This is what was on the magnets, and we needed some sort of backing for them. We shopped around for red cardstock, thinking it would be an easy task. It wasn’t. For some reason Office Depot only carries “re-entry red”, which is the equivalent of neon red. Not what I had in mind.

Then I realized (through a ton of advertisements now sitting in my inbox), that I could get 100 free postcards from the same company (Vistaprint), and that I wouldn’t need to find the red card stock. Of course, if I’m going to have it printed for me, I might as well go all out with the design. So I went a little crazy with the card mounting. And it took all night. But I prevailed, somehow, and even made it to work the next morning. I ordered 100 postcards (yes, I know I got 200 magnets… the math is not right… but I can always use the extra magnets for something, I hope?) and 100 size A2 red envelopes to put them in.

Anyway, here’s the design!

First, just the postcard backing by itself…

…And then again with the magnet stuck to the middle!

For the back of the postcard, I made a little notice about our flight discount (through Hawaiian Airlines) to inform guests who don’t already live in Hawaii. I’ll use my little Xyron to turn these into stickers!

A little bit of good ol’ manga (Japanese graphic novels) flair. There was some cut-off on the edges of the final product, so I accounted for that. I also hope I circled the right island! HA! Mr. Sewing would kill me otherwise. I’d be an embarrassment to the family name! But I think I got it right.

(Creation of this save the date was made possible thanks to this awesome website with screen tones. [For further credit, I should say that I also modeled the hand-holding part of the picture from a page in a manga.])

Any manga fans out there?