Saving Our Own Date!!

I've designed many save the dates in my day and both Duncan and I have put hours into producing other people's magnets. We love making them unique and perfect for each uniquely awesome couple. It's great to contribute in a very small way to so many people's weddings and I think doing so made making our own save the dates that much more special. It was our turn!I was worried that I'd never be able to come to a decision on a design for myself, but I was pleasantly surprised to fall in love with the first one I created. After a few minor tweaks, font tests and sign off from the groom to be, the card design was complete! We wanted to do something that we hadn't done for anyone else so we made the magnets fabric covered instead of the usual paper with the plastic cover. I used glassine envelopes and round mailing labels from Paper Source and made my own stickers to match the card. I cut a purple piece of paper to slip inside the envelope so the back of the postcard wouldn't show through. I used a clear adhesive made especially to seal the glassine envelopes. I should note that I don't suggest using these pretty envelopes for anything other than paper. They are technically mailable, but some of the magnets broke free from them on their way to their recipients (so sad).I added a 64 cent stamp and a clear return address label and they were ready to go!We also created a Save the Date Video for our website. I hope you like it!

Save the Date Video from Duncan Hooper

If you're interested in getting a quote for save the date design or magnets just shoot me an email and I'll be happy to fill you in!

Saving the date

One of my best friend's Jeni is getting married this summer and I am so excited to be a part of it. Not only am I in the wedding, but she also asked me to help her with some of the design elements for her big day. Jeni and Keith's romance began on the bus in San Francisco (you can read about their adorable 'how we met' story here) . Keith kept the Muni love alive and proposed at the bus stop so it was only appropriate to go with a bus theme for their save the dates. Here's what I put together for them. And the back: I'm really excited to share the save the dates for my wedding with you all very soon!

Save the Date Designs

I have been meaning to post photos of all the save the date magnets I've been making lately and can't ever seem to find time to take pictures of them all. In the meantime I figure I'll post some of the various mock ups I've created while working through the custom designs with each bride. Some people are very specific about colors, design ideas or themes while others are quite vague leaving it up to me to come up with a variety of ideas.

Here are a few to start (click on the image to enlarge it):



(for a safari theme)



And here's one photo I managed to take a while back:

You can also click here to check out the first set I made for my sister's wedding.

Save the Date!

My sister is getting married! Being the awesome, supportive sister that she is she wants to incorporate Vivi Dot as much as possible. This started out with the save the date cards. I've always thought that magnets that can act a reminder for the details of the wedding are a great thing to include with save the date cards. I thought I'd put a Vivi Dot twist to what's normally a flat business card sized magnet. My sister went to Paper Source (one of my favorites) and designed the note card with the '3 dots' in mind. She let me know what she wanted each magnet to say and then let me run with the rest of it. Here are some photos of the process and the finished product too:

UPDATE: related post located here.

Vivi Dot workspace:

We chose the round paper source labels for the addresses to keep the 'dot' theme consistent.

The finished product:


Save the date magnets- close up: