aymekae's Red wedding

I wanted to mention something about our save-the-date magnets and our wedding announcements. For those seeking information.

We made our own save-the-date magnets. We purchased business-card sized magnets off eBay for about $10 (for the extras, my fiancé will use them for his business cards, as he’s a realtor). Then, I used Microsoft Publisher to design it. One business card was too small for what we wanted to do, so we doubled the size (making them two business cards stacked on top of each other). Ben also happened to have printable business card paper, and as long as we were careful, we could rip out two at a time once printed. I included a picture, a little rhyme I found on the internet (Ben bought the ring, Ayme said yes, there’s going to be a wedding, and we hope you’ll be our guest!) Added the date (obviously) and website info. I hated the look of “wedding websites” you can put together, like weddingchannel.com and theknot.com. And we didn’t want to pay for a nicer site. Luckily, Ben already hosts a website for his real estate business. So we added a new page for our wedding, and password protected it. Guests could use the email and password we provided, or could sign up for their own. Not the tidiest solution, but it’s worked out well (except for the fact that my own family doesn’t even look at it!) I put whatever information I needed, like registry, location, local hotel info, how we got engaged, something about the wedding party, etc. As a double feature, instead of using RSVP cards for the invitations, we included a slip of paper with the website info again, directed them there to RSVP, and then put our contact info. Honestly, we have maybe 20 guests that I don’t know personally, or if they would come to our wedding, so I didn’t need the extra expense. If the RSVP deadline comes and we haven’t heard one way or the other from guests, we’ll just call them. At most, maybe 10 phone calls.

As for announcements, I finally ordered from www.photoannouncementsweddinginvitations.com. $63 for 30 announcements. I'm happy.

Total: $10 for magnets, $16.40 for postage (business card sheets and printing were free), and $63 for announcements, plus $12.90 for postage.