Our Save the Dates are completely self-made (which I'm very proud of). I used a free program I found called Inkscape to design the Save the Dates & I'm very happy with it. There was definitely a learning curve, but it does everything I need it to do and the price was right. :-)
Our design process went through a couple steps. We iterated on one design until we found something that we both liked; I showed it to various people & we were ready to go. Then, I said I felt like something was missing. I didn't feel like it was as *good* as the Save the Dates I saw on the internet, nor did I feel like it represented us. I don't have the original design with me, but I'll update the post later to include it.
So, I started searching around and trying to figure out what was missing from our Save the Date. I found this invite and showed it to K:
(source)
We both really, really like it, and so I used it as an inspiration for ours.
I put together the basic layout and then I started looking for a quote to put at the top. Except, to me this couldn't just be any quote - it is *the* quote. As I see it, this is the quote that sets the mood for our wedding. It's the first thing many people will see (this is before we'd finished our wedding website). I was looking for a quote that defined us & what we wanted our wedding to be.
Yes, that was a lot of pressure.
Yes, it's likely I was being overly dramatic & I could have put any quote and no one would really have noticed.
Anyway....one night K & I were talking about this. I figured out that in order to find a quote that defined our wedding, I needed to know what we wanted our wedding to be like. I asked him what he thought, and he said something along the lines of "I want it to be a celebration. I want to celebrate our love, family, and friends. I want it to be a lot of fun with a lot of laughter." He nailed it. That's our wedding - that's us. (By the way, have I mentioned lately how much I love this man? How many guys would respond with something like that?)
So, I decided to give up on quotes from famous people & use a quote from one of the key people involved in the wedding - K. When I showed him the next design, with his quote at the top, I think we both knew this was it. It was exactly the feel we were going for:
I put together the basic layout and then I started looking for a quote to put at the top. Except, to me this couldn't just be any quote - it is *the* quote. As I see it, this is the quote that sets the mood for our wedding. It's the first thing many people will see (this is before we'd finished our wedding website). I was looking for a quote that defined us & what we wanted our wedding to be.
Yes, that was a lot of pressure.
Yes, it's likely I was being overly dramatic & I could have put any quote and no one would really have noticed.
Anyway....one night K & I were talking about this. I figured out that in order to find a quote that defined our wedding, I needed to know what we wanted our wedding to be like. I asked him what he thought, and he said something along the lines of "I want it to be a celebration. I want to celebrate our love, family, and friends. I want it to be a lot of fun with a lot of laughter." He nailed it. That's our wedding - that's us. (By the way, have I mentioned lately how much I love this man? How many guys would respond with something like that?)
So, I decided to give up on quotes from famous people & use a quote from one of the key people involved in the wedding - K. When I showed him the next design, with his quote at the top, I think we both knew this was it. It was exactly the feel we were going for:
(picture by me)
Next post...assembly!
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