Dates Will Be Saved!
Our Save-The-Date!
It started months ago. We booked our wedding venue for 11/28/2009 and promptly started to worry about the fact that our wedding falls on Thanksgiving weekend. What if people are going out of town for Thanksgiving? What if the people we really want to come our wedding can’t come? What if… then we took a deep breath, and realized there was a remedy to this perceived problem: Save The Date cards!
Everyone and their mother sends Save the Dates nowadays, but originally they were designed for weekends such as, oh, Thanksgiving weekend, so people can plan ahead and attend whatever event is called for to save the date. We started looking into Save the Date ideas. Emails? No, too impersonal. Regular cards? Nope, more likely to get lost. What would be a bit more “permanent” in peoples’ minds? Magnets! I found a company that allowed custom designs to be uploaded then printed on a magnet, so I went ahead and designed our Save the Date “cards.” We decided on the one in the picture above and about a week later, 100 magnets arrived in our mailbox!
Was it that easy? Stick a magnet in an envelope and… crap. Addresses. We needed lots of addresses. Many people don’t worry about addresses until invitation time, but alas, we had to get them and get them NOW. Facebook became our best friend! AAH then another realization: we had no envelopes. Nor did we want to just stick a magnet in an envelope for fear it would get lost. Enter my friend, who with her sister, runs a stationery store. She got me card stock and envelopes for very little money, and I set out assembling magnet-on-cardstock-stuffed-in-envelopes.
Finally, months later, it’s time to send out our Save the Dates. The stacks of envelopes are sitting here ready to get dropped in the mailbox tomorrow. It’s real now… WE’RE GETTING MARRIED!!!
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Congratulations for getting out your save the dates! But arggg I hadn’t even thought about addresses… I wish we could just email everyone. :) Anyway happy planning.
did you get the magnets online? Can u share the link?
Thanks!
Hi Tova, I got the magnets online at http://www.vistaprint.com and designed my own using their template. Super easy, and only $25 for 100 magnets!
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