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.

Open for Business!

The wedding planning blog is now kicked into gear. After the necessary comment from my sister this morning wondering why I procrastinate planning the wedding, I thought that I should just buckle down and start this blog!

I stopped nit-picking over the perfect banner for this website and just created one that I liked. Brian's first response to it was "We aren't using those fonts on our invitations, are we?" I said, "No." "Oh, then it's great!" he said.

He's a picky man.

So, here it is. I created the banner by downloading vector graphics for free from Vecteezy! Then I created the graphic in a combination of MS Word and Gimp, a freeware version of Photoshop. I know that most people won't care about those details but I felt the need to give credit where credit is due.

The banner is subject to change as we figure out what fonts and styles we are using for our invitation suite. I like it for the time being. Expect many more posts in the future since there are many things to do! Happy planning!