Our Save the Dates!
September 22nd, 2008 @ 1:37 pm by Miss Taffy
Mr. Taffy comes from a very artistic family. He’s a painter and a product designer, and both of his brothers are talented graphic designers. We were thrilled when Mr. T’s older brother (and our best man) offered to design our save the dates and invitations.
But our good luck didn’t stop there!
He also offered to hand-print our save the dates and invitations, using the ever popular Gocco. As an artist and a Weddingbee reader, I know what a huge undertaking this is. I feel like we are getting good karma for all of the sewing that I have lovingly done for my friends’ weddings.
I started gathering inspiration for our save the date cards right away. I didn’t have too much planning going on, but these were three things we had decided on:
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The Cheapest Save the Dates Ever!
September 17th, 2008 @ 1:49 pm by Miss Fondue
We originally weren’t going to send out save-the-dates. We weren’t getting married on a holiday weekend. Most of our guests live in-state, and the ones that didn’t knew about the wedding already. It would have been better to spend the money on parts of the wedding that were more important to us.
That is, until the idea of emailing the save-the-dates came to me. As our invitations cater to the more formal side of our wedding, why not use the save-the-dates to display the quirkiness of it?
So we broke out our digital camera and took pictures of our Miis from our Nintendo Wii. Then we used Photoshop to create a graphical file, which we posted in an HTML email and sent out to our guests.
The Postcard
September 16th, 2008 @ 1:37 pm by Miss Hot Cocoa
A few days ago, I posted on the save the date bookmarks that we were too lazy to produce. Lesson learned: it’s not enough for a wedding-related DIY project to be snazzy, it’s got to be manageable as well. In fact, my new motto is “short and sweet.” It describes me (5’3″ on a good day, but super delicious). It also describes any task I’ll take on in the near future.
Well, what could be shorter and sweeter than a postcard? As a favorite writer once suggested: “To choose a post card is for me a flight which at least will spare you the too abundant literature to which you would have been subjected…” A postcard is pithy, affordable, and cheap to send. What’s not to love?
Here are some unique and creative options I came across:
[Mini-cooper card from Etsy seller unlesssomebodylikeyou.]
It’s quirky, understated, and just adorable. It’s kind of an aspirational card, though—perfect for the lover-of-flea-markets-and-tandem-bikes kind of girl I wish I were, but not so much for the way more boring lawyer/academic that I am. Sigh.
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Spellbound
September 11th, 2008 @ 11:53 am by Miss Hot Cocoa
My favorite board game? Scrabble. Most lamented Facebook loss? Scrabulous. Book I’d take to a desert island? The Oxford English Dictionary. Favorite historical novelette? The Professor and the Madman. Favorite freebie website? Dafont.com.
In case it’s not obvious, I am a word nerd. N-E-R-D. Nerd. So you can imagine my excitement when one of my favorite websites, Lifehacker, introduced me to a fun little application called Spell with Flickr. This app does exactly what it’s called: it spells out the word(s) of your choosing using Flickr images. Like this:
Or this:
Consider Yourself Booked… or Not.
September 10th, 2008 @ 12:20 pm by Miss Hot Cocoa
Like all graduate students I know, I am a terrible procrastinator and find it all but impossible to get things accomplished unless there’s an impending deadline (and usually some threat of a cut-off of funding). Well, it turns out, according to my Martha Stewart online wedding checklist, that we are supposed to send out our save-the-dates in less than two weeks. Naturally, we are woefully unprepared for this. We haven’t finalized a guest list. We have no addresses yet. And, of course, we have no save-the-dates printed. Martha is tsk tsking at us right now.
Just to get my imaginary Martha to take a chill pill, I spent this weekend putting together some mock-ups of possible save-the-dates. Here’s one of them. Behold: our almost save-the-date bookmark:
Magnetic STD’s
August 22nd, 2008 @ 1:01 pm by Mrs. Pinot Noir
When Mr. Pinot Noir and I decided on a destination wedding, we knew that we would need to send out Save The Dates so our family and friends could begin making their arrangements. While sending an evite might have been the most eco-friendly option - most of our extended family is not comfortable with technology (as in they don’t have email) so that would have made things rather difficult.
Long ago (pre-engagement) I had fallen in love with the idea of doing a photo booth style save-the-date. After our engagement, I researched all of the photo booths in New York City and compiled a list based on location, price and quality. I planned to take the pictures with super cute cards and then reproduce copies of the photostrip. But then I started to worry (this is not unusual). How many tries would we need to get the right combination of photos. How many booths would we need to visit to get a decent quality? I decided to make a postcard using the photostrip images, and then we wouldn’t need to use envelopes and we would save money and paper (no envelopes!). Visions of creative, unique, DIY save-the-dates danced in my head.
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My First DIY Attempt, I’m Still Alive.
August 18th, 2008 @ 4:11 pm by Miss Martini
Since our wedding was only 7 months away, we considered not sending out Save the Dates. But my high-strung personality was scared of attempting to DIY the invites, programs and place cards without first trying something a little easier first, JUST in case I freak out and have to be taken away in a straight jacket.
My 21 year old cousin, who is one of my bridesmaids, attends Rhode Island School of Design and is amazingly talented. I asked her if she would be able to create a few characters for us to use on save the dates, place cards, and other little things throughout the wedding. It was a huge favor but she was very excited to help out with something she was good at. A couple of weeks later, she sent me this:
STDs Are Great!
August 12th, 2008 @ 10:32 am by Miss Sweet Tea
… Save the Dates, that is! 
I almost forgot to show your our STD cards because I’m so excited about our invites, but first things first! Our STDs were sent to our guests way back in April, since we wanted to give people plenty of time to start saving money and planning to travel to New Orleans. After some hemming and hawing about whether to order our STDs online or do them ourselves, Mr. Sweet Tea and I finally decided to design them ourselves and print them out through VistaPrint.
Some tips and resources that helped us save a lot of money on this:
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Save Our Date!
February 27th, 2008 @ 1:45 pm by Mrs. Sundae
Our Save the Dates are finally complete and as far as I know have been received by almost everyone, so I can finally share all the pictures. I bought a rose clipart file from clipart.com and used Adobe Illustrator to change it to a light green color. Then I flipped and turned the graphic and placed different parts of it around the square. That’s all of them above, waiting to be stuffed and sent.
Save The Dates
February 8th, 2008 @ 6:28 pm by Mrs. Cream Puff
Because we got engaged at the Parkway Theater, I had a wonderful vision in my head for our Save the Date. We would be beautifully set in front of the Parkway, and I would use Photoshop to change the wording of the “Now Playing” sign to say “Save the Date: August 2008.” This was my inspiration (from knottie DynomiteWins):
