Despite all of the b-e-a-utiful Save the Date inspiration I shared with you in the last post, we opted to go a completely different route.
I was browsing the DIY Boards and found this beauty by hive member Miss Q. She was kind enough to share the template with me at my request so I present to you my official Save-the-Date inspiration - as in, this is what we were originally set on:
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| from the lovely Hive member miss Q | edited a little to remove her personal information |
I was in love with this idea. I believe she used it for a magnet, but I had visions of it in postcard form - of course, with our colors, our date, our information.
Mr. Palm Tree and I are super lucky to have a family friend (actually, GM J's mom!) who offered to design and print our Save the Dates as a gift to us. She is co-owner of a fairly large printing company in our hometown and does this on the reg. This saved us a ridiculous amount of money and I cannot truly, accurately express my gratitude so I won't try. We sent a really heartfelt thank you and a gift card to her but she will forever be at the top of my Awesome People list. Moral of the Story: accept help when it's offered (something I'm still struggling to learn).
Without recapping our gazillions of emails, I'm just going to let the pictures do the bulk of the explaining as I take you through our Save the Date process - the journey, if you will, from Point A (above) to Point B (our finished product):
