I finished designing my Save The Date cards... I think.

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(We're doing a Nintendo theme, if you couldn't tell.)

I like it as it is, but I don't know if I need to include anything else.  For example, we know our venue.  Also, I don't know if I'm going to do a wedding website, but I do have one registered.  I'm torn between sending them out right away as is, or doing a wedding website first and adding the info at the bottom before sending them out.

I also need to figure out whether I'm printing them myself or getting them done at kinkos.  I want to do magnets so I suppose a lot will depend on the price.

gooseberry234

Those are great!  If you are planning on doing magnets I recommend Vistaprint.  Groupon has great deals for them pretty frequently as well.  We got ours done through them and with the Groupon it came out to about $60 for the magnets and envelopes.  I was very happy with the quality.

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Did you do the small magnets or the large ones?

nay1984

omg those are amaaaazing!!!

nay1984

omg those are amaaaazing!!!

Spunky414

Love it! I don't think you need to include your exact venue, but you should have the city and state for people to make travel arrangements. 

gooseberry234

I ended up doing the large ones because of the design.  We are doing a craft beer theme and we had logos from all our favorite breweries as the frame so I didn't want to make them too small.  From what I could gather from sizing on the site the small ones are closer to business card size and the large are right around postcard. 

Personally I think your STD would look amazing as a large magnet. 

mabapunta

Those look great!! If you wanted to include the location on there, can you maybe add a flagpole from the building on the right? Or if you do the wedding website, you can include it at the bottom of the STD and people can find all the other details there.

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Thanks for the opinions and the complements and advice.

I didn't initially put the city on because I don't think there's anyone that wouldn't know it's in Omaha.  I'm torn on the website still, but I'm going to wait a bit to send them out anyway.  I'm meeting with a photographer tomorrow and most of the ones here include engagement packages - even if I don't include a photo on the actual STD, I think I'd like to include one in the envelope if we get them done soon enough.  I think the couple days of wait will do me some good, and also allow me to see about a wedding website.

If I do add a few things, I'll probably put them at the top, similar to how the game is laid out.  But there's also a lot of room at the bottom.  Plus, being sprites, it's very easy for me to move things around without losing quality.

vk2204

Those are awesome! I want one, haha!

Cryssteen

[QUOTE](We're doing a Nintendo theme, if you couldn't tell.)[/QUOTE]

<div>Holy crap!  Will you be my BEST FRIEND????</div>

erbear84

My FI loved that!  He's a huge Mario/Sonic videogame nerd.

joheryl

I love the design!  I agree maybe to include the website if you finish it :-)

Thompc04

those are awesome!!! I put the city on ours just so that OOT people knew where they need to be & can start planning.

shanding4787

How did you design those? They are awesome!

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Shanding, I took a bunch of sprite sheets and layered them together in Paint.net.  I do a lot of sprite-based art for a hobby, so I had a bunch of mario stuff.  Sprites are pretty easy to find around the internet, but if push comes to shove I can rip some myself.

Everything is from the Super Nintendo version of Super Mario Bros (from Super Mario AllStars), except for Mario and Peach, which are from Super Princess Peach for the DS (because every Super Nintendo version of Peach looked HORRID).