Our Wedding: Simple Gold Save-the-Dates

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From the beginning I knew that I wanted simple, elegant save-the-dates. I also knew that I didn’t want to spend a lot of money, so I decided to make them myself. I brainstormed a lot of ways to incorporate gold (ribbons, glitter, etc.), but when I stumbled across these gold cards at Michaels, I knew exactly what I wanted to do.

See our simple gold save-the-dates below.

I created our save-the-dates using 4 things:

1. Foil cards from Michaels

2. My home printer (Canadian link here), with ink via Costco

3. Business card magnets from Vistaprint

4. Zots glue dots (Canadian link here)

After lots of research, I realized that ordering business card magnets from Vistaprint was significantly cheaper than ordering wedding postcard magnets. Yes, they’re smaller, but who really wants a giant magnet on their fridge anyway? Not me.

The business card magnet designs aren’t laid out to be save-the-date magnets, so I played around with fonts and designed my own. If you want to save money but aren’t willing to give up the idea of magnets, this is the way to go.

After we received our magnets, I used Microsoft word to type out the cards. I was scared about the whole printing at home process, but it went incredibly well. I printed all of the cards in 15 minutes, and then attached the magnets. The Zots glue dots held the magnets on perfectly, and didn’t damage them when pulled off the card.

To go along with our save-the-dates, we created a custom wedding website on theknot.com. The wedding website builder is an extremely useful tool. It was extremely easy to design, edit, and customize.

We ended up purchasing our own custom domain www.WigleWedding.com (now expired as we only paid for 1 year) so that we could include it on the physical save-the-date cards. I highly recommend doing this as we had several people RSVP via the website. Check out a preview below!

Click here to see our wedding website.If you’re not into DIY but love the look of our save-the-dates, check out Shutterfly. They offer tons of options very similar to ours. Click a photo to see your options!

Some of my favourite cards: