Charlie
September’s creative post is designed to help inspire you to create your own wedding stationery – or at least, your own stylish homemade ‘save the date’ cards. ‘Save the date’ cards seem to be relatively unknown in the UK, but they are popular in the US.
For anyone who’s not sure what a ‘save the date’ card is, you send them out to your guests with the date of your wedding and your names, and perhaps the location of where your wedding will be.
The great thing about ‘save the date’ cards is that you can send them out before you have confirmed all the details of your wedding, such as time and venue, which are needed for invitations. Friends of ours who recently got married sent their ‘save the dates’ out in the form of a magnet, which we stuck on our fridge.
The below images were created using home photographs, and edited on a free online website called Picnik. This website is easy-to-use and allows you to create high quality images with different effects, borders, and text. I see ‘save the date’ cards as an opportunity to be quite fun and lighthearted, or you could tie them in with your wedding stationery if you know what it will look like.
Some design ideas and tips
The photograph of the donkeys was taken on holiday in Menorca, and I thought would make a great ‘save the date’ as the donkeys look like they are kissing. I added a sepia affect to create the two-tone colour so that they text would stand out against it, and used a tool on Picnik to soften the edges of the photo but keep the donkeys in focus. I used all the same font for the text, and used the ‘stickers’ option on Picnik to create the heart by the couples initials.
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