This is a little outdated, but for those of you new to the site, my fiancé and I are getting married in May. With 10 months until the wedding, we decided sending “Save the Date” cards would be the easiest way to inform our guests of the correct date. We also decided these cards would give us the best opportunity to get a little creative and have some fun.

After discussing it for a bit, we decided two versions of the cards would work for us, a “fun” version and a “don’t frighten the elders” version. Now, in retrospect, they’re both fun, but this became our operator keyword when discussing the design.

The first, or “fun”, version is designed as a comic book. My fiancé, Sally, and I have superhero names for each other, Captain Distracto and Olfactra. I tend to be attracted to obejcts that are shiny, dull, fast, slow, animate, in-animate…you get the picture, so my name is Captain Distracto. It seems as though my most difficult task is to remain focused on any conversation without looking and interupting all over the place. I mean no harm by it, I just like the shiny objects. Sally’s name, Olfactra, come from her ability to smell any bad odor from (what seems like) miles away. She evens knows the smell of earwax! Earwax does in fact have a smell, who knew? Using these heroes as our base, I created a comic book style postcard to reflect our alter-egos.

The second postcard is actually our original idea. We took a series of four photos in a photobooth and held up pieces of paper with the words “Save”, “The”, “Date” and “May 26th, 2007″. Easy, to the point and still a showing our creative sides.

We had a lot of fun coming up with the concepts and I really enjoyed putting these together. By setting the tone early, we hope to maintain this fun attitude throughout the wedding process and onto our lives together.

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