Save the Date: Part 2

I wrote in a previous post about my Save the Date experience and I thought that I would follow up with a little look at the final product.

Thanks to Emily for the great photography! So many people have asked so I thought that I would mention that this was taken at Griff's parent's house in one of their fields. In the spot where Emily is standing taking this picture is where we were engaged on Thanksgiving weekend 2009.

It seemed easy for me to decide that this was the picture that we should use. It encompasses so much of who we are and pays homage to our Montana life.

And designing this was so unbelievably easy..and affordable! I saved an ton of money on these by using Vistaprint. I was nervous about the quality of them (I paid a few cents extra to upgrade the type of paper that they were printed on) but I couldn't have been happier about how they came out. The back is printed with the information for the hotel and travel accomodations.

More DIY projects to come!

Save the Date!

I am a very DIY kind of girl. If I could make everything for this wedding myself, I would. But being 2500 miles away from where we're getting married doesn't exactly make that an easy task so I am looking for less costly alternatives. One of the things that I was really adament about was making was my save the date cards. 

I have seen so many great looking save the dates...like this one:

And then I have seen some not so good ones...like this:

Both were quite helpful...and no, our guests won't be receiving a "date" getting saved from the train...and I saw the goods and the bads of the Save the Date spectrum.

When I was researching, I remembered how we used to have postcards printed for sorority events through VistaPrint. They always came out great and best of all it was CHEAP! I knew that it was my best option and at $35 for 100 5" x 7" cards with envelopes, I knew I wasn't going to find anything better. Now I just needed to come up with my design...

I wanted something that spoke to who Griff and I were and the life that we had here but wasn't throwing it in your face. I also didn't want something that looked like a tribute to our stunning photos : ) After visiting the ski hill one day, my soon-to-be-sister-in-law took an awesome picture of us on the ski lift. I played around with it and viola! I had our Save-the-Dates. There was still something about it though that I just didn't think was right.

So when Emily was here last weekend, I had her take a few shots of us where this wedding journey began: the spot where Griff proposed. I played around with the pictures all week and this time, it felt like we had gotten it.

Stay tuned for the final product : )

(C'mon, you didn't think that I was going to reveal them before our guests got them did you?)