Sunday, November 3, 2013

Save The Dates

Now that we have a bridal party, we can finish that page on our website... just in time to send out save the dates!  Normally I don't have much use for save the dates; there are very few people whose pictures I want magnetized to my fridge for months, and they are an added and usually unnecessary expense.  There are a few exceptions, one of which is weddings that fall close to holidays (that's us).  Guests need advanced warning to make holiday and travel plans, I get that.  I've seen a few cute save the dates online, but I'd rather make my own.  You can print custom postcards on Vistaprint for very reasonable prices, so we thought we could come up with our own design, have them printed, and send them in our Christmas cards this year (Postage is one of the hidden wedding costs; if we're using a stamp, we might as well make it pull double duty!).  As I mentioned in my very first post, we already have a save the date idea.  I saw a wedding website a long time ago that has this very modern, simple, but funny and cute text format:




Lance wanted to edit out the "effing," but other than that we really liked this (and have plenty of history to fill it with!).  Plus, it shouldn't be that hard to make; it's just text, right?  WRONG.  I've been messing with it for days, and it's sneaky hard to choose workable fonts, double justify the text, and make it attractive.  So if you have any basic graphics design skills, please help!!

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