DIY Save the Date

It took me quite a long time to determine what our wedding save the dates would be, but I did know from the start that I wanted them to be on a postcard and that I wanted to avoid a cheeseball photo of us. My favorite idea was using a postcard from the city where we'd get married and writing the details on the back, like this and this. The problem in our case, though, is that we're getting married in a small rural town outside of the suburbs of Chicago. Not outside of the city, outside of the suburbs. When I Googled for postcards, I found maybe one postcard of a railroad track.

My next idea for a postcard image was to find something with a nice wedding-like image. When that was unsuccessful, we thought about making our own postcards using a photo of the venue. By this time, it was mid-November, and I started thinking about using a Christmas greeting as our postcard.

So I found these. And this awesome DIY idea for a vintage save the date using a stamp you can customize yourself from Ruffledblog.com.

And last night, I completed these!

We bought the stamp kit from Staples for about $30. I wasn't happy with the way the felt stamp pad was working, so I bought a foam one for about $2 from Blick that worked much better. The kit came with a small and a large stamp, so we used the small one for the greeting and the large one for the information.

I did end up with a few cards where the stamp didn't come out even, so it's a good idea to have a few extra postcards just in case.

Next step, postage and addresses.