Pinpoint the location of your destination wedding for guests on an outline of the surrounding area with a star from The Starcraft.
The vast majority of destination weddings are held Stateside. With that in mind, we created these two America-happy postcards that mark your big day -- with a personal touch.
Send a miniature flag of the state or country in which you are marrying for a fun save-the-date keepsake.
Send your guests a heads-up -- and an altitude adjustment -- in the form of a paper airplane.
Have fun with a luggage tag-shaped save-the-date which, depending on the design, can work well for any destination wedding.
In honor of Hawaii -- a perennial nuptial hot spot -- we devised this easy-to-make, impossible-to-dislike paper lei. The best part: You don't need steady hands to cut out the shapes. Just use one of our floral craft punches.
For a destination wedding on the beach, a sea-inspired octopus motif adds a playful element to this flat-printed style.
Mara Zepeda of Neither Snow calligraphed the paper elements for this real wedding, starting with the save-the-date, which also introduced the color palette. The folded cards were tied with orange-and-white baker's twine and stamped with the May date.
Direct guests to your wedding with this fun compass-inspired card that helps them find reasons to attend: When they spin the bottom portion of the card, they'll see all the activities they'll be enjoying (dancing! feasting! toasting!).
This bride designed her Hawiian save-the-date based on an illustration from sheet music to "Honolulu Moon."
Yellow and white alpaca wool twine wraps around the save-the-date, as a play on the location, Snow Moon Ranch, a Suri alpaca and llama farm.
Featuring the phrase "save the date" in eight languages, these DIY cards get the message across clearly, succinctly, and stylishly.
Getting married in a big city with an iconic landmark? Highlight one of its buildings by using stamps, collage-style, on the front of a plain correspondence card.
Postage stamps, Champion Stamp Co. "Verge de France" stationery, by G. Lalo, from Kate's Paperie.
Tieing the knot somewhere snowy? For this real wedding in Colorado, a hand-drawn mountain scene on cotton paper save-the-dates set the tone.
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