Do-it-yourself save the date items

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You can make simple Save the Date cards or postcards, which are a good option if most of your guests will be receiving your announcement by mail. If you can hand-deliver your items, make some sweet treats to pass around, or craft reminders that resemble scrapbook or calendar pages. If you're having an outdoor summer wedding, stamp your announcement on small, inexpensive folding paper fans.

1. Printed Items

   • Using a software program such as Microsoft Publisher, create sheets of business cards printed with a picture or clip art, your names and wedding date and your "Save the Date" message. You'll be able to choose the layout, font, borders, colors and, of course, the picture or clip art. You can buy packages of blank business-card sheets at office-supply stores. If you mail your cards, be sure to use envelopes that are at least 3 1/4 inches high by 5 inches long to avoid a postage surcharge for non-standard size envelopes.

     Print postcards using Publisher. You'll be able to print four postcards per page. You can use glossy photo paper or card stock in your choice of color. Or design your postcards at the Postal Service website and have them mailed for you. This service allows you to upload addresses from your email address book or from an Excel file.

     Make your own Save the Date magnets. Buy sheets or rolls of magnet stock and print them as you would postcards or business cards. Die-cut the magnets into wedding-cake or other shapes appropriate for a wedding.

   Edible Items

   • Make heart-shaped sugar cookies and write your message on them with a decorator tube fitted with a writing tip. Make simple flowers by using a star tip, or add thinned icing around the border and sprinkle it with tiny cookie decorations.

     If you enjoy a little whimsy, package dates in plastic treat bags and add a label with your names, wedding date and Save the Date message. Use stuffed dates to make them more visually appealing.

     Make homemade fudge and package each piece in a little box. Write a "sweet" message on the top of the box.

   Crafted Items

   • Use cookie cutters to mark shapes such as wedding bells, wedding cakes or hearts on sheets of self-adhesive foam and finish cutting them out with scissors. You can also use wedding-themed scrapbook items. Make mini-scrapbook pages by cutting sheets of card stock into quarters. Glue the foam shapes or scrapbook decorations around the borders of the card stock. Write your Save the Date information by hand, or use software to create a page that you can cut and glue to the card stock. Add a small picture of the couple (a picture taken on the day they became engaged would be ideal). Make or buy tiny bows and glue one to the top of each page.

     On a calendar page, circle your wedding date, add a wedding sticker and write your names. Reduce the page to allow you to make two or three smaller copies per sheet, and copy your calendar page. Punch two holes on one side of each page using a paper punch, run a ribbon through the holes and tie a bow.

     Buy undecorated white wedding-favor boxes or take-home wedding cake boxes from a bakery box supplier. Add a wedding sticker to each box, tie a narrow ribbon around it and attach a tag to the ribbon reading, "If you don't save the date, you won't get any cake to put in this box." Add your names and wedding date to the tag. You can unfold the boxes to slip them into envelopes for mailing.

Source: www.ehow.com

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