Save-the-Dates: Tips & Trends - Wedding Planning - Save the Dates - TheKnot.com

Save-the-Dates: Tips & Trends - Wedding Planning - Save the Dates - TheKnot.com

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Design Ideas

Whatever you choose, make it fun and you're sure to get a favorable response. Here are 10 ideas to get you started:

• Use bright, bold colors that will make an impact and your wedding date will stay in the thoughts of even the most absentminded guests.
• Include graphics or colors that make sense to the locale and date, such as pink and red flowers if you plan to marry in the springtime in a rose garden, or a card tied up with a baby-blue gingham ribbon for an oceanside summer soiree.
• Your save-the-date cards can be as simple as a postcard or as elaborate and interactive as a magnetic puzzle. 
• We're fans of a picture taken shortly after the engagement (think holiday cards).
• Some brides favor save-the-date cookies, although you may have to send out a second reminder to all your sweet-tooth friends who might munch before they mark down your date! 
• We absolutely love the idea of save-the-date stickers that will fit into those tiny boxes in appointment books or on desktop calendars.
• Refrigerator magnets -- ones with just your names and wedding date -- are cool too.
• We like pretty save-the-dates like ones designed on fans or better yet, pinwheels!
• An all-time favorite done many different ways is the calendar. Invitation designers are creating cards that look like a mini calendar month with the date you've chosen circled or decorated or knocked out with a mini three-hole punch.
• The hottest trend is a photo strip (the kind you create yourself on a beach boardwalk) with funny faces and the wedding date. In each of the four pictures, hold up a sign. 1) We're getting married. 2) Save the Date. 3) June 5. 4) Be there! (You get the idea.)

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