Beating the system...

This post is overdue, but you know how the Christmas season goes...

So, I came up with a brilliant plan to save on my Save the Dates. (On wedding chat boards, posters often abbreviate that to STDs, but I'm not going to go there because it makes me snicker like a seventh-grader.)

Instead of paying to have a bunch of postcards professionally printed, I thought, why not just make the Save the Date as a 4" x 6" photo in Photoshop? Then I waited for Snapfish.com to have a "100 prints for $1" sale and ordered a whole bunch. The plan was to send them out in my Christmas cards, thereby saving even MORE money in postage.

I did both a black-and-white and a color version, and they looked great (edited versions below). 

 EXCEPT... I got the date wrong to my own wedding. Yep, I did the template before we had officially set the date, and obviously I didn't proofread these before ordering. Le sigh... At least I'm only out a dollar.

What I ended up doing was running to Walgreen's and printing just a few to mail out to family. I may wait for another "100 for $1" sale to order the rest. Or, I may just send this out over email/Facebook to my online friends. Elderly relatives, traditionalists and Luddites on my list will still get printed copies. 

You don't even really HAVE to do Save the Dates, really, but I consider it a necessary courtesy to my faraway friends who will have to buy plane tickets or drive a long way. Considering that we've been to two very faraway weddings in the past two years that required us to buy plane tickets last minute and didn't even send out formal invitations, I'd say we're ahead of the game!