My friend Ellie – from the fabulous blog Mint and her equally fabulous stationery shop Hello Tenfold – designed these custom save the date postcard for a couple getting married in California next spring.  Inspired by the trip that their guests would undertake to attend the wedding, Ellie worked with the couple to create a fun and modern double-sided postcard with a map on one side and playful text on the other.
From Ellie: When Melissa and George started planning their spring 2011 wedding in California, they realized that their guests would be traveling from all over the world. Â Melissa is from California, George is from Texas, and they met while living in Georgia and Tennesee, respectively. Â Since most of their guests would be boarding planes to come to the wedding, they wanted to let them know how much they’d appreciate the west coast trek with a fun, custom save the date postcard.
Melissa had the idea to have a map of the United States showing the locations of her guests with dotted lines from the major cities and airports to Menlo Park, California where the ceremony will be held. Â On the back, the couple wrote a cute, tongue-in-cheek note to their guests describing Melissa’s Wankee status and George’s dedication to the Dawg Nation.
Melissa and George were going for a laid-back, fun, and informal feel for their save the dates, so the postcard format was perfect. Â For the back of the postcard, they were inspired by the typography-driven Erin invitations from my shop. Â Needless to say, these were a lot of fun to create!
So cute!  A big thanks to Ellie for sending these over – for more from Ellie, definitely check out her blog and shop!
{image credits: hello tenfold}
gorgeous!
gorgeous!!
So…there is more to the world than America, but love this design!
They have quite a way with words!
The text on the back is unique, playful, and fun.
I like the design too. I wonder if the stars represent all of the attendees, or just a few of them.
@AJ: Not all of them! We left out the ones who aren’t in the US, because on a small postcard it was hard to show the whole world. We also just used one star in places where there was a large concentration of guests in nearby towns. Thank goodness for Google maps, on this project!