save the date ideas... anyone want to flash theirs? ??

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These are ours They were made into a sort of button magnet! Haven't sent all of them yet, just given out to close family members to save on postage.

Heres mine! sent mine out last friday! so we left 10 months gaps. our is more of a 'gamer' ' geeky' theme.

I basically stole the title card for adventure time but redesigned to fit as a save the date fridge magnet!

I'm making ours, this is them so far, of course there is no date, etc, because even though we know what date we want, until we've actually booked somewhere I can't really put the date on in case. I did enough for the ceremony and reception guests, but was going put on the reception ones that that is what they're invited to. But in another save the date thread on when to send them out, someone said you just send them to the ceremony guests, would it really matter? They're surplus to requirement if not which seems a shame.

Front with envelope

Back

Thus is ours. We'll be sending them out next week hopefully!

(ill prob delete the pic a bit later)

It's not really the done thing to send Save the Dates to evening guests unless you make it clear it is for the evening reception. Most people, upon receiving a Save the Date, would assume they are invited to the whole day so it could make for some awkward/embarrassing moments.

Your Save the Dates are very nice.

I might do a play about with them to see of its look good if I could make it specific to the reception. I'll have a look. I'm never once to do stuff straight forward! And thank you

I like yours Hannah, the dog looks chuffed to be in it!

Elixia - love your cards!

And now I'm panicking that I should be doing save the date cards. Freshly engaged and totally overwhelmed by the amount of stuff to do! Eek!

Haha you don't "have" to send them at all! It's more for if you are getting married during a time when a lot of people go on holiday, you have a big guest list or guests coming from a different country. Take a big breath and go and buy a copy of 'Wedding Ideas' mag ? you're in the right place for lots of help and ideas ?

Haha thank you, yeh she likes to be involved!

Not at all! I didn't bother and just sent my invitations about 6 months before the wedding.

My main reason for is my wedding is on a friday so day guest will need to book the day off.

Sent ours 7 months before wedding, which is just as well because it's less than 10 weeks until the big day and we've not sent the invites (I'm about to pop to the post office to send the first wave of them, lol)

A Hitcher helped us with the image and then we used Vistaprint and it was DIRT cheap. We sent them as postcards with personalised Royal Mail LOVE stamps, with a picture of us on. (cheeeeze!)

Totally homemade but hardly cost anything! They are magnets too.

Check out wedding chicks too for free templates

Our save the dates match this stationary

We scanned in our engagement cards made an electronic collage of them and then had postcards made of them (vistaprint). The date, our names and the address of our wedding website are on the reverse with a little space for a message on the left and, like a real postcard, a message box on the right.

There are some very cute designs on here. I love how much you like your own but it doesnt stop you from liking others as well

These are ours

Some lovely ones. I love the personalised picture ones!

These are our home made ones x

Hope this works! First time trying to flash images!

These are our Save The Dates, I simply designed them in Quark Express and we got our local printing shop to print them up back to back and we cut them to A6 size. They are printed onto recycled brown card and worked out about 25p per Save The Date

I love this thread, there are some lovely designs and a lot of thought/effort. Well done us! I think those extra touches help make it all so magical, for us and our loved ones (sorry, having a 'goo' moment!) xx

Let's see if I can figure out how to add a picture ?

Used lots of different colour papers and ribbons, OH had to choose some which were less flowery and pink of course... .but very cheap and cheerful and lots of material left over for invites.

Buffy and Mooshy, they are gorgeous.

There are some fab designs on this thread.

We just did Vista business cards, was like £5 for 250 or something stupid! To be honest 99% of people that were given them didn't know what to do with them and still don't know the date.

Loz! dont panic. Congratulations on getting engaged, isnt it exciting, I too was overwhelmed by the amount of stuff to do, and today a colleague reminded me of how long I have left...I get married end of September. ,,and I panicked, I had to remind myself to calm down and its going to be great!

We didnt send save the date cards. We just though we would save a bit of money. I know you can make them at home cheaply but we chose not to. We're not getting married in the summer, so guests with school age children won't be on holiday. Obviously you never know if a potential guest will book a holiday or is working and cant get the time off, but thats just a risk you take.

We still havent sent our main wedding or evening invitations, we havent even got them. Dont know what they look like...they dont exist yet! we are sending out at the end of May all being well, with an rsvp of mid July. It has been a minefield considering what we want them to look like, whether we make them ourselves, or get a company to do them, Lots of companies out there. We know what we like and want the invite to follow a theme, which is why it is taking us so long to choose. Hopefully by next week we will have something ordered.

My thinking is that as long as most people know about the date you should be fine, unless you're inviting very distant relatives or friends you never see, then you might be best firing them an email or calling.

dont worry...I have been and its stressful so really trying to chill now. feel free to contact me for advice.

I can't post a picture at the moment but I went for magnets from Vistaprint.

We uploaded our own image which my OH did, left the magnets in my basket and a couple of days later was emailed an offer so got 60 (I think) for about £8 including postage.

First time trying to flash, so it may take a while!

This is ours, and the invites/rsvp/menus/order of service will follow the same format.

These are a Free Template of Weddingchicks, I might not use them yet and need change the 2 lots of invitation to follow,

Great for people with low budjet

These are all amazing!! So many gorgeous designs!! We've just verbally told people to save the date but our guest numbers aren't huge and are mainly family and a few groups of friends - all these gorgeous designs are making me want to do them though just for fun!!! Though maybe I should save my creativity for the invites later down the line!!!!

Thanks for all the advice (and sorry OP for the thread hijack!). We're going to try to book the venue first and hope the rest falls into place so I suppose we'll decide about save the date cards or just go for invitations once we have the details... Lovely ideas on this thread though.

I don't have a picture yet but we're having wooden hanging hearts with writing burnt/engraved on with the details. A little expensive but hopefully worth it! Figure we only need about 30 as all family groups.

They are a printed collage of our engagement cards

It's a postcard. On the back is the date and the address and QR code for our wedding website.

I've just finished putting these together