Save the Dates

Some people like Save the Date cards, some people could take em or leave em, some people get them and wonder "but where is the invite?". Being a graphic designer, of course I wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to design yet another fun aspect of the wedding. Plus since we are getting married on New Year's Eve we thought we'd give everyone plenty of time to plan so we included hotel information on the back of the card.

I figured since Save the Date cards have been sent I could post it on here (details were changed for web viewing). Mark and I came up with the snowmen idea a while back. We definitely are not going the winter wonderland route for our wedding decor/theme. But we thought a cute bride and groom snow-couple would be a fun quirky addition to our save the dates. Plus I kind of giggled at the thought of sending the snow-couple cards out in July, coincidentally days before the Humigeddon of July started. Just a little reminder to the Minnesota friends and family as to what is around the corner.

After a couple of postponements, Mark and I jumped at the chance when the temps reached 50° one March afternoon and trekked out to one of Owatonna's parks and make our snow-couple. Thank goodness we did them when we did. It was a perfect white snow and the snow quickly disappeared after that.

Front

Back

We had the two sided 5x7 card printed at White House Custom Color from their Boutique card collection, and thanks to my sister for her Photoshop skills on the photo! :)

Now time to start planning the invitations!

Font Overload!

As a graphic designer, I've been looking forward to designing my save the date cards and invitations for far too long. Probably since college, which was 7 years ago can you believe that?!?

Being the planner that I am I've had my general wedding "theme" figured out for a while now with a few variations rattling around in my brain. Mark and I came up with a clever save the date card idea in our early stages of planning and we are ready to finally put all the pieces together.

One problem.

I'm in font overload! I kid you not when I say that I have just over 100 (*edit* I just found another font folder on my computer that has well over 400 fonts, that's over 600 fonts to choose from!) fonts on my computer. Does a girl really need that many? Apparently I do. Sure I've got the basic fonts that came with my Mac then I discovered places like fontspace.com and fontface.com.* These sites are like free internet porn for graphic designers (don't get me started on the free vector graphic sites.) These free font sites remind me a lot of internet dating: you have to weed through the crap to get to the good ones.

There are reputable font sites like myfonts.com, you'll pay for the font but you won't get lost in the crap.

Here is a samplings of what we found on myfont.com:

See the price tags? $35? I'm ok paying that. $99? I'd better really like the font. Thankfully they have a feature where you can preview text in a selected font style. It's been a lifesaver so far.

We have it narrowed down to 5 6 strong candidates. We'll play around with them this weekend and see what we come up with.

Oh yeah, and this is just the selection process for the script font. I haven't begun to weed through the serif and san serif fonts for the body text of the save the dates and invites. There are over 45 fonts in that list...

*I've used both fontface.com and fontspace.com on my Mac and have never had a problem with computer viruses on these free download sites. I have no experience using these sites on a PC platform.