Save the Dates!

Now that most of our Save the Dates have been mailed and received I feel that I can blog about them! Brian and I designed and made them ourselves.

We printed on white cardstock which we trimmed. Then we mounted it onto precut chartreuse color, #10 size cards from Paper Source, an online paper seller. Finally, we finished off with a hole punch and a bit of black ribbon. They all went into orange colored, #10 sized envelopes from Paper Source.

It was much more time consuming then I expected. We had started looking at possible designs a long time ago! First we thought about doing a boarding pass design. I tried making that look right for months, to no avail. I got frustrated one day and decided to look at a boarding pass that I did like and try to copy it. I realized that no boarding passes actually look cute. I just thought that the "idea" was cute. Some ideas do not work in reality.

So, then we went through other choices: magnets, passports, and simple cards. Finally, our favorite comic newspaper, The Onion, released this issue:



We loved this issue (click here for online version). We read it from cover to cover.

We were inspired and decided to design something like this. We wanted the same superfluous words and fonts. We had a lot of fun creating our own version. Here it is:

Save the Dates!

Save the Dates have been mailed! I thought that i would post teaser pictures of them so that you can look forward to them. They took a lot longer than I expected. Brian and I designed and made them ourselves, printing on our home printer and cutting the cardstock with our trusty laser printer. Above you can see the envelope when it is sealed (I blurred out our address in the picture). Yours will come with tape on the string so that it won't get caught in the USPS machines. Below is a picture of the card just peaking out.

Hopefully you will see yours soon! I will also post more pictures and explanation of how we made them and why we chose our design later. I do not want to ruin the surprise.