Happy Humpday! This is my first Wedding Wednesday and I’m excited to link up with Jordon from Love Always Nancy J and Meredith from Belle in Boots. As I’m getting deeper in to the planning process, I’ve been reading more and more blog posts on weddings. I love seeing what other brides to be and recent brides have done, so I thought I’d join in the fun! Today, I wanted to share how I pulled off 150 save the dates for under $100!
K and I are on a tight budget, which means we are doing many things ourselves and getting creative where we can. I wanted to figure out a way to get beautiful save the dates for less than 100. Luckily, I stumbled across Etsy! I ordered a printable digital file designed by Mallory Hope Design. Once the design was complete and I had the file, I ordered the actual cards for printing from Smart Press. I was a little nervous since this was my first Etsy purchase and I just wasn’t sure how everything would turn out. However, I absolutely LOVED the end result. Cost:
Etsy digitial design file: $28
Printing through Smartpress: $55
Total cost (not including postage): $83 for 150 save the dates!
Have you ever ordered from Etsy?
Nope, i’ve never order from Etsy, but I just started thinking about putting things on there once I really start to figure out how it works! Cute cards by the way!
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Those Save the Dates look great! I ordered a lot of stuff from Etsy for our wedding and I kept ordering stuff from there afterward. The most recent thing I ordered was custom covers for some stools from Ikea. I love that there are so many people on Etsy willing to work with you on custom items and I’ve never had a problem with Etsy yet (knock on wood). Checking people’s reviews before ordering is key.
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Thanks! Etsy has blown my mind with all the amazing things on there 🙂
That’s a great deal! I’m thinking of doing the Etsy template for our invitations/programs! $8 template that is totally customizable? Awesome!! Love your save the dates, btw 🙂
We saved on our save the dates bc I won a silent auction for a $200 gift certificate to Minted for under $50 🙂
You should totally do it for invitations and such! We definitely will be going that route again. And that’s awesome that you got such a great deal for your save the dates! Which is super cute and has a prominent fridge placement, btw 🙂
Welcome to the fun part of getting married, blogging about it!!! There are so many women on here that love to share their ideas and it is so much fun to look for ideas and get awesome tips from others. I ended up doing the same thing with designing our own Save The Dates from a digital download to Etsy and designed them myself. I ended up doing this with a lot of the paper products for our wedding. I love your save the dates! they are so cute (:
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Thanks Brittany – it is pretty fun! 🙂
I love Etsy. I’ve purchased many things. Also, I used to make handmade cards and am pretty crafty – if you ever need any creative help 🙂
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Hahaha – you may rue the day you told me that 🙂
lol, I’ll refer you to my big bucket of cards I keep meaning to put in Etsy!! gotta get rid of it.
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Those are so cute!!!! Look at you Ms. DIY! I love it!!!
Thanks for linking up!
beautiful, we found a deal online for weddingpaperdivas so you can have an amazing wedding on a budget! unfortunately postage will always get you!
The good thing about using postcards was that the postage was less than regular mail 🙂 Only spent about 20$ to send everything!
The more time I spend on Etsy the more I love it! I’ve only ordered a couple of things on Etsy so far, including invitations for a baby shower and my parents’ anniversary party. I also ordered a customized “Mrs.” hanger for my wedding dress. Everybody who saw it loved it!
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Nice! I’ve looked at those hangers – very pretty 🙂
Beautiful Save the Dates! We are trying to stick to a tight budget as well but will be having less than half your guests! I think British weddings generally are much smaller. We designed our own Save the Dates and then got them printed and I shall be making all of the invitations over a long weekend for our wedding in August. Pinterest has been my friend over the last couple of months for ideas!
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Love your save the dates! I used etsy for the first time to purchase a blog template, and found many beautiful options for half the price I had seen on other online sites. I would definitely use etsy again, especially knowing that you had such luck with this sort of purchase through them. #SITSBlogging
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