Ideas To Make Your Own Save The Date Postcards

Save the date postcards are becoming more and more common with brides and grooms. You may want to get your wedding date out early so that people can put it on their calendars. Also, these cards can act as engagement announcements for interested friends and family members. Before you go buy generic, pre-printed cards, why not consider designing your own? You can actually design your cards and have them printed for you by some great printing companies who don't charge much at all. Here are some great ideas for designing your postcards.

Use a photo of the two of you

Chances are likely that some of your friends and family members will put your save the date postcards on the fridge so they'll remember your wedding date. Why not give them something to smile at when they get out the milk by making the front of the postcard a photo of you and your fiancé?

You can use all sorts of photos for this type of card, from the romantic to the silly and playful. If you want to get engagement photos done anyway, why not wait to print your postcards until after you've got your engagement pictures back? With the help of a creative photographer, you can come up with all sorts of interesting and fun photos to use for your postcards.

With some programs and printing companies, you can easily add a message to your postcard photo, as well. You can put a line from your favorite song, a piece of poetry, or a traditional love-themed Bible verse on the front of your card underneath your photo.

Snap a shot of your venue

Absolutely love the place you're going to get married? If you've got an interesting venue, you could use it as the focal point for your save the date postcards. Simply take a good digital photo of your venue - or a close-up of one of its more interesting aspects - and use this to create the front of your card.

You could even get your engagement photos done at the place where you're going to get married, and use those photos for your save the date postcards. Again, it's really easy to put a romantic or fun message on the front of your cards.

Bring them back to your childhood

If many of the people who will be coming to your wedding have known you since you were a child, then use pictures of you both when you were young. Older family members and friends will enjoy remembering those times, and friends who haven't known you as long will get a kick out of seeing what you were like as a youngster.

Sort through photos of yourself and your fiancé when you were children, and combine one or two pictures of each of you for the front of your save the date postcards. Sorting through the pictures can be even more fun if your mothers or other relatives are there to tell the stories behind each picture - stories that you may not even remember!

To use your childhood photos, simply scan them into your computer and edit them in the same photo editing document. You can make their edges blend into each other, or you can give each photo hard edges to make the postcard look like it's really a stack of childhood photos jumbled together.

Give hints about your theme

Save the date postcards don't need to be as formal as most wedding invitations, but they can bring in your theme, wedding season, or wedding colors. You already know what season you're getting married in, so this can be a good place to start. Postcards for a fall wedding can be covered with leaves, and you can bring in bright colors for a summery wedding.

If you already know what your wedding colors and theme are going to be, why not add that to your cards? You could use just your theme and colors by themselves. You could also add your colors to photos that you've taken by making the text a certain color or adding themed clipart images in with your photos in a playful way.

All of these save the date ideas are great if you want to design your own postcards. If you've got a decent photo editing program, it isn't hard. Plus, it's fun to be able to make your save the date postcards look exactly the way you want.

Ideas To Make Your Own Save The Date Postcards

Use a photo of the two of you

Snap a shot of your venue

Bring them back to your childhood

Give hints about your theme

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