Our Save the Date card project has been a labor of love and a long journey. Oh my! I did so much research that my head was just spinning by thinking about it.

The images on this post were taken by my Matron of Honor (MOH). I really wanted our wedding style to come across on the Save the Date cards. We put a lot of thought into each detail and are proud with the finished product.

To make these cards a reality I had to find the right photographer; select a hair and make up artist; find the best location for our photo shoot; determine the date, time and attire for the shoot; purchase the materials for the cards…and finally assemble them.

I had my MOH and a friend help me with the assembly. For the production assembly, I decided to use my office, since we had the privacy and space needed for the project. I was inspired by a designer of custom invitations and greeting cards, known as Keg Design. I used her idea with a “splash” of our own style and personality.

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This has been a bit of a lingering project (lingering on the dining room table, that is), but now they are DONE!  I want to share some of the little details that helped make these so fun for me.

I ordered a custom stamp from Etsy, in the design of my stationary.  I kind of fell in love with these black #9 envelopes with the top flap, which made the white stamp necessary.  I love how the white stamp looks on the black envelopes.  Hints: practice your stamping!  I liked to stamp a paper towel in between envelope stamps, and also keep a paper towel underneath the envelope for cushy stamping.  This stamp will also be used on our RSVP envelopes.

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I am fond of DIY projects, so I decided to take on designing my own Save the Dates. I had a great idea inspired by Dandelion Bud’s postcards, but the end result didn’t turn out as well as I would have liked:

I printed one out and they looked great at a distant, but even at a comfortable reading distant, you could see the pictures were pixelated and overall quality fuzzy. The poor quality comes from using a less than stellar editing program. Of course, I didn’t notice this at first because I had just spend several hours staring at a computer screen and blamed to fuzziness of that…

The next day, I sent the file to my sister to get her opinion. Was the quality too poor to print? In her brutally honest fashion (which is exactly what I was looking for), I got a resounding “Yes!”

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