According to Martha, six months before a wedding, Save the Date cards should be mailed. So, here we are, six months before the TheFirstChild and SweetiePie’s wedding. This past weekend, SweetiePie declared it was time, and we worked on her Save the Date cards.
Sweetie Pie found the idea for this particular style Save the Date card in one of her Martha Stewart Wedding Magazines. Each little card contains three stickers that the recipient can put on their various calendars. Pretty clever, I’d say!
Printing out the stickers was the easy part. SweetiePie bought stickers at Office Depot and downloaded some formatting software. I was amazed at how quick they were. Then we printed the cards. That took a little more work as our printer didn’t like the size of the cards. We figured up a work-around though, and after that, the printing was went pretty smoothly.
The cards came with plain envelopes, so we cut papers to line the inside of the envelopes. What did we ever do before paper cutters with rulers? They make things so easy.
Martha’s version of the cards were pretty narrow and the cards that SweetiePie found were much wider. We added the little bow to dress up the cards and take up some of the extra white-space. We’re only about 1/2 way through, but they’re coming along nicely. With a little luck, the bride-to-be will be buying postage by the weekend!
A very special thanks to all of you who’ve taken the time to comment in the last few weeks. You’re all The Best and I’ve really enjoyed the conversations that we’ve been able to have!
XOXO,
Anna
What a neat idea! The stickers are fun. Leave it to Martha to think of this!
What pretty save the date cards. You are soooo creative I swear.
Those are so cute. If only I’d had you around when I got married!
Those cards are gorgeous! Lucky Sweetie Pie to have you! Lucy x
Those little save the date cards are the cutest I’ve ever seen. Love the stickers. How fun!
Well this is such a clever idea! They look really great!
Very elegant cards! We were just at a wedding and they sent out “save the date” refrigerator magnets 6 months ahead of time. They had a picture of the happy couple with all the pertinent information. They were very cute. I love the stickers, what a great idea!
We sent out postcards shaped like pints of Guinness as our ‘Save The Date’ cards. Perhaps that’s why he drove me to drink.
You are definitely going to get nominated for Bestest Mother in Law Ever… I hope SweetiePie knows how lucky she is!! x
I don’t know if you were trying to be funny, but your first line really cracked me up…according to Martha,….hee hee hee
Very sweet cards!
Such a sweet idea, We don’t send save the date cards, we are happy to receive a wedding announcement six weeks before the wedding! But we don’t have a Martha! This is so courtly!
These are beautiful and what a blessing that you get to help.
These are so beautiful, and I should have known,,Martha would come up with a great idea like this. Makes me want to get married again.
When I first saw this, my immediate thought was that it was your wedding… oops..
These are SO freakin cute!!
Great cards Anna! Have you thought of wedding planning!! No, I don’t want to know what you’re planning for the wedding menu!
Kimx
Very nice! Sweetiepie is lucky to have you for a future MIL!
They are gorgeous! I was crazy about all the ideas in Martha when I got married, too. :)
I feel bad…I needed to have done this…perhaps I’ll just send out the invites really early! lol
Anna – those “save the date” cards are beautiful. I’m a sucker for ribbon and I love the ribbon you have on them. How wonderful that you could do that with sweetie pie. She’s lucky to be getting such a talented mum-in-law.
Hugs- Karen
Those are so cute – what a neat project to do together. The stickers are a great idea.
Love the save the date cards. Also I hear you kept Sharon on track for getting my shopping done:-)!
I have a recipe that is a little different it has changed over time. My Dh is from Scotland and I had never had this until he told me about it. It is a great meal and it reheats well.
What a great idea the cards look fantastic.
Heather
Anna – I am playing catch-up on blog reading this morning, and, of course, had to come here! One of my favorite places, I might add!
That is such a great idea, and they turned out so cute! Looks like you two had a lot of fun creating those!
These are gorgeous!!!!! I love the colors/patterns that you all selected…
Martha would be proud. And she couldn’t have done any better…