Our Save the Dates

Since most of our guest have already received their save the dates, it is now safe to blog about them. Thanks to the super speedy postal service, most received theirs one day after I mailed them out. I was impressed! Good job Mr. post man!


I left the Save the Dates up to Brian in terms of what we did for them. He wanted to go the magnet route so I agreed and went to work. I googled and searched until I found a site that I knew I could trust and would be happy with the quality of their work. That site was Magnet Street Weddings. We originally wanted to find something that was close to the blue we are incorporating into our wedding. We laid our eyes upon this one..
Although it turned out to be more green then blue, we were still pleased with it. Our friend Dawn agreed to play photographer for our "save the date" shoot. The three of us headed to a nearby park and she went to town. Since our engagement session with our photographer isn't until spring, we had to make this work and I think it turned out great. Here are the 3 we choose to use on the magnet:

We also used a coupon code online that saved us 15%. I love deals!

We decided that we liked the look of the black and white pictures so I used Picasa to enhance and edit the pictures a bit. And here are some of the others that we took as well during our shoot.

I also wanted a more personal feel to the save the dates than just your standard magnet. After seeing this used by others on their blogs, I decided to incorporate it into ours. Sorry its so blurry. But it says "she's 5'9, he's 6'4. he loves to play golf, she prefers anything but. she's a duke fan, he's a wake fan. since they began dating, differences become opportunities. she convinced him to try sushi, he taught her how to play Rook. they love sports. they love their dogs. they love each other. one evening in December, he got down on one knee, and she said yes."

We printed them in chocolate brown, honey script font on white card stock. Brian went to town with the paper cutter...

Then we used white ribbon to hold the magnet and the card together...We printed the labels in the same font and color and used the white envelopes that came with the magnets. Then we went to stuffing, sealing , stamping (we used the red heart stamp)and addressing all 160+ save the dates.
I can't tell you how many people have called, emailed or told us in person how much they loved our save the dates. They loved the personal touch we put on them and we are so pleased that everyone enjoyed them!