I cannot craft. And we really, unequivocally meant that. we cannot craft. Back in my seventh-grade-teacher days, we infrequently reserved my students to make the occasional print or collage as well as customarily done an e.g. for them to see. The kids always, ALWAYS soundly trumped my e.g. with the projects they incited out. we was out-crafted by thirteen-year-olds upon the regular.
So when it came time to start formulation for the save-the-dates as well as invitations, we knew which we would not be in contact with the Gocco, the Cricut, Adobe Illustrator, or even plain ol MS Word with (Wedding Planning Website) the ten-foot pole. Instead, we incited to your crony as well as mine, Etsy, as well as put out an Alchemy bid requesting someone to pattern PDFs, which we could afterwards print myself (that creates it arrange of DIY, right?!).
I got the small good bids as well as the small very, unequivocally not-good bids (think www.regretsy.com), yet we got the single outstanding bid, from seller gramkinpaperstudio. She offering me the great deal: $100 to pattern for the save-the-dates, invitations, RSVP cards, as well as information inserts, with five rounds of revisions for any item. Then we checked out her badass portfolio:
(Source: all from gramkinpaperstudios Et! sy shop)
Hi. Sold.
So we got crackin upon collaborating to pattern save-the-dates! we described my ideas—red as well as purple, statement fonts, chuck the monthly calendar in there somewhere, as well as can we find the spot for the couple of quirky small graphics?—and she responded incredibly quickly. With any revision, the pattern got closer as well as closer to what we had in mind, until, upon the fourth round, it was perfect. we sent my PDFs off to OvernightPrints, as well as squealed with glee when these showed up the couple of days later:
I was unequivocally happy about how sharply the details of the pattern came out in the copy process.
Theyre the “premium” postcard option, as well as they incited out only how we was hoping. The pattern is only what we had dreamed up in my head, as well as the print pursuit is perfect. we was looking for something flattering as well as classy, yet additionally the small off-beat as well as unexpected. we unequivocally hope everyone enjoys them as most as we do (although to be perfectly honest with you, we dont essentially thoughts if they do or not, because we love them enough not to care!!).
I included this picture so we could see the shine from the “gloss” treatment the postcard gets.
The the single dumb, reticent inapplicable designation we done in the pattern process? It never occurred to me to ask the designer if, instead of putting lines for the lapse residence in the top corner, she could instead essentially embody the lapse address. we paid for which slip by writing the lapse residence eighty times in the row. It was so super dumb, we guys.
And now, after many hours of address-writing as well as hilariously-irrelevant-polar-bear-stamp-affixing, these suckers have been ready to be mailed to the guests!
Heres the bonus shot of the save-the-date cozying up to Bridesmaid Ericas save-the-date upon the fridge.
Cost breakdown:
- Design fee: $25 (though it was unequivocally all the single pile the small with the invitations; we only broke it down like this)
- Postcard printing: $47
- Postage: $23
Total: $95—exactly 95 cents per card!
Where did we get your STDs**? Was it the DIY, the semi-DIY, or the DISE (do-it-someone-else) job?
*Ha!
**Ha ha! Seriously, cant stop myself.
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