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Do you want to know where I get my most brilliant ideas from?

Source

The shower! (Side note: do NOT google “woman showering” when at work!!)

Much like this woman, I look very happy when I get a brilliant idea while I scrub down.

So my brilliant shower idea came for my Save the Dates! I had been trying to think of something cool to do that would get people excited about our location in Philly.

Before my aforementioned brilliant idea, I had come up with this:

(Note: When I made these, R2L was still stringing us along)

It’s cute, right? But it wasn’t very WOW, and I wasn’t thrilled with it. I probably would have mounted it on some purple or maroon cardstock and have been done with it. But where’s the fun in that?

Here’s the first draft of my brilliant shower-idea STD:

This is the outside of the card (folded hamburger style) and the date will be cut out meticulously with an X-Acto knife (because I don’t have a Cricut). So when it’s cut out, you’ll be able to take a peek of our beautiful city!

Inside, the invite looks like this:

So I have the whole city skyline! I think this STD is much more reflective of our venue and the swank city feel our wedding will have.

I wanted to do the cards on a dark grey cardstock, and then print the skyline on white cardstock to paste it in & give it a small border.

This idea was pretty ambitious for me, but I was determined to make it work! I’m nowhere near the craftiness level of some bees, but I did have to take design courses in college, so I figured if I really stuck with it, everything would be dandy!

Are you DIYing your STDs? Are you trying to make yours match the atmosphere of your venue, or some other part of your wedding?