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No…not these kinds of dates!

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This kind of date!

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Our save the dates were so simple I can’t even believe I am calling them a project. I like to say that I have a simple aesthetic. I like to say this because it gives me the green light to do things in the most basic and easy way possible. Don’t get me wrong—I adore all of the beautiful engagement-picture postcards, magnets, pop-up-book-style cards, hankies, and other amazing creative ideas floating around out there. I just wanted something I could whip together, get printed, and put in the mailbox. This is what I came up with:

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That’s right. Is there a cutesy picture of us on the front? No. Is there a fun saying on the back? Well, if you think “Ms. and Mr. Aardvark are getting married” is a fun saying then, yes; otherwise, no. I made these in Illustrator, but honestly it would have been faster and easier to make them in Word. I simply made a document for the front that consisted of a background color, a huge text box with the date in it, and a pre-loaded border. For the back I put a strip of the border design down the middle, three lines to the right for writing in addresses, and the basic “blah blah blah SAVE THE DATE, WE’RE GETTING MARRIED, don’t worry this isn’t the invite, also we have a website blah blah” on the back. I made sure it met the USPS guidelines for postcards, and then I went to Vistaprint.

About every other day Vistaprint sends out an email for free this or that. I waited until I got one for free postcards and clicked through. The postcards were not free…but they were pretty darn cheap. For $10 I could upload my own images. For $5 I could get both sides in color. For another $10 I could get matte-finish recycled paper. Add shipping and I think the total came out to less than $35. For 100 cards!! Free? Not quite. But a really good deal, nonetheless.

So that’s it. Date on the front and instructions to save it on the back. Don’t get me wrong, I love being creative, I just know that there are going to be lots of projects for the wedding and I did not want to burn out too soon!

Did you have any projects that were super easy? Anything that you took the easy way out on?

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