Save the Dates

 As with all of the "paper goods" for our July wedding, the Save the Dates (just can't bring myself to abbreviate it) were a labor of love.  I went through 2 or 3 iterations of the design before I finally came up with one that I was really happy with.  Once we decided to spread the orchids from just the real flowers throughout our entire theme, things started to gel.

I knew that I wanted to create them myself however I also knew that I wanted them to look as "professional" as possible.  We acquired a really nice printer over the summer and that as proven to be one of the best investments we have made.  I highly recommend spending the extra money to get a really good inkjet printer before starting out on these DIY projects!

These were really quite simple in the end.  I used regular 8.5" x 11" white cardstock for the main card which I cut into 3.5" x 5" pieces.  Once the main image was printed, I trimmed the edges by 1/4" on each side.  I also cut 8.5" x 11" black cardstock into 3.5" x 5" pieces.  I used a regular glue stick to paste the two together and voila! we had a ready to send Save the Date.

I printed the envelopes with the return address and the recipient's address although given the choice again, I would forgo it.  The size of the RSVP envelope (what we used for this purpose) didn't work well with our printer - just couldn't feed it through properly.  I wasted about 20 envelopes with crooked or blurred printing.

Find the template here : Save The Date Publisher Template
All paper products courtesy of:  Cards & Pockets
Fonts used:  Adios Script Pro & Copperplate Gothic Bold