Eco-Vintage Weddings

Our Wedding Tuesday: Save The Date!

Happy Tuesday, readers! I hope you all made it through your Monday relatively unscathed; I know I struggle to get out of bed after a wonderful weekend!

Today’s a big day for EVW – we’re finally ready to show all of you our Save-the-Date cards!

The inspiration for our cards came from Etsy seller Golden Silhouette, who had bingo card Save-the-Dates for sale in her shop. I loved the ingenuity of the cards, and I felt that they fit in so well with our vintage-inspired theme! I showed this template to Jordan, and he agreed that while the bingo card was a wonderfully creative idea, we needed to make it our own to make it work.

So, after much deliberation as to how to make this template our own, here’s a mock-up of what our Save-the-Date bingo card looks like!

I apologize if this image is rather difficult to see (click the image to view it larger); our colors are a dark slate grey, ivory and yellow, and we plan to print the card on heavy grey cardstock. Instead of using the word “Bingo,” we wanted to use a love-inspired word. I love the word “Bliss,” and I think it looks so fun at the top of our bingo card! As you can see, near the bottom, the number ‘17′ is circled in a faint yellow color, with the word “July” written atop it. In the free space we’ve placed a Photoshop brush of a beautiful vintage chandelier, which is one part of a larger graphic we’re planning to include throughout our invitation suite.

There’s one more part to our Save-the-Date card that we have left to do. This idea was inspired by an engagement card I received from my cousin Amber. The front of the card was affixed with a vellum wrap-around belly band that said, “You’re Engaged!” I loved the way this looked, and since we needed to inform our guests of our wedding date and location (and this web site!) I wanted to include a belly band on our Save-the-Date.

Here’s what the belly band will say:

Birds of a feather, please save the date
to witness the marriage of
Sara Eiesland & Jordan Gillis
July seventeenth, two thousand and ten
Sioux Falls, South Dakota

For more information on our wedding plans,
visit www.ecovintageweddings.com.

Formal invitation to follow.

The text above will be right-aligned, and on the left side of the belly band, we’ll have a picture of us from our engagement photography session (which is coming up in a few weeks!). I love how the Save-the-Date begins with “Birds of a feather” … this text was taken from the wedding invitation of a fellow kindred blogger and her partner, Sara & Matt of A $2000 Wedding.

Here’s one of my favorite parts:  the two edges/sides of the belly band will meet on the back of the bingo card and be sealed with a button! My maid of honor and I went to the flea market a few weekends ago, and we found a whole mason jar full of buttons for only $5.00! I’m so excited for this part of the Save-the-Date process; actually putting together the separate pieces!

It’s our goal to send out our Save-the-Date cards in mid-January, so we still have some time to finish up the process. But, the bingo cards themselves are ready to print, and we plan to send them to my father’s company for printing any day now! We’ve already begun collecting addresses, and after that, we’ll be on the hunt for yellow or ivory envelopes and wrap-around address labels. It’s so exciting!

I’d love to hear your feedback!
What do you think of our Save-the-Dates?!