How did you make your map?

Mrs.B.Rad · February 2010

For those of you who included an insert with a map, how did you make your map?

I've found a website that shows you how to do it off of a map you have to make but they estimate that it will take 6+ hours for you to do it.

squirrly · February 2010

It took me at LEAST 6 hours. I followed the directions on WeddingMapper.com, but it turned out fuzzy, so I redid it in photoshop with a high resolution. Ultimately, I'm happy with it, and I'm happy I did it myself and saved the $150 it would have cost me to get somebody else to do it, but if you don't have photoshop, I'd pay the money to somebody else. I really, really would.

bride2bhcl · February 2010

I did mine in Powerpoint and I loved the way they turned out.

I mapped my wedding location in Mapquest and created a screen print of the image. Pasted the screen print into a Powerpoint slide and resized it to fit the slide. Then I used Microsoft draw to trace over all of the roads that I wanted and used call outs, text boxes, clip art and our monogram to spruce up the page. I didn't find it to be that difficult but it did take a little bit of time.

frohotch · February 2010

I just did mine last night. After a bit of work, I also went the Powerpoint Route. I downloaded Jing to do the screen capture, and placed the image in. Then I just traced the major lines, putting in markers for all of the wedding sites. It took me about an hour-hour and a half once I figured out which program to use. Don't be afraid!

Mrs.B.Rad · February 2010

Thank you ladies so much!

I'm still not sure which one to use. I like the way that Squirrly's looks but I'm really not sure I have the photoshop skills to touch it up and make it look nice. If I get a chance today I may have to give it a shot and see how hard it is.

I'll post pictures if I get a chance.

squirrly · February 2010

It's worth noting that one of the difficulties for me is that my roads are not on straight lines. They're round and curvey and sort of all over the place - which makes putting the road names in very challenging. We also have guests coming from all directions, so leaving out more roads isn't really an option.

If you have a very simple map, it can be done pretty easily. If it's more complex. . .

NAClark · March 2010

I also took a screen-shot of a google earth map and then drew lines on top of it to make the map. This worked really well. We also had curvy roads - which wasn't a problem since many programs do allow you to make curves. I used microsoft publisher but I'm quite sure you could do this in power point as well. It does take time and patience but our result turned out great!

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