Considering our guest list (of which not a single person is from Rhode Island) with the fact that the wedding was going to take place during 'season', we realized we would need to get out our save-the-dates as soon as possible so people would have a fighting chance at finding a place to stay. It was all I could do not to just hand them out at Mr Corn's brother's reception!! (I mean, how much harm could it have been? Half of those people were invited to our wedding too!!) Below is a scan of our official save-the-date that went out in the mail the second weekend in January 2007.
The cards are 6" x 4.25". I am making our invitations out of Paper Source's 12x12 sapphire stardream cardstock. The invitations will be 6"x6" square folders with an enclosure pocket on the inside left panel. The save-the-dates were made from the scrap left from the 12x12 cardstock once I cut and folded it all to size.
I printed the save-the-dates, invitations and response cards in dark chocolate brown ink all on one sheet of Paper Source's Luxe Cream 8 1/2" x 11" paper and then cut them all to size as well. The lobster is a stamp I found at A.C. Moore...although I realized after making all of the save-the-dates that I could have just printed the lobster myself on the paper! :)
Now if you are smarter than me, you have already figured out that making the save-the-dates from the scraps of the invitations meant that I was forced to cut all of the invitations prior to even making the save-the-dates!! This created a lovely wedding weekend scenario this past December wherein Mr Corn and I were sitting up at all hours of the night before his brother's wedding, cutting paper on the hotel room floor. I am hoping you can learn from this lesson.
Have any of you made your invitations and what formatting tips can you share for getting the most out of a page?
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