If you're reading this blog, you've probably already received your Save the Date, but I'm so excited and proud of how these turned out. My good friend, Cristin Burton designed these. Cristin is a very talented designer working here in New York and
has actually studied the music poster genre in grad school. So she's obviously the perfect choice for this project. We started out with a meeting over brunch where she brought a book of vintage music posters for inspiration. We bounced around a lot of ideas, paid the check and went on about our Saturday. A week later, Cristin emails us several options--all too awesome to make a decision. We hemmed and hawed and Frankensteined some posters together and Cristin came up with these two beauties. And we liked them both so much, we couldn't decide which to send. So we printed 40 of each and randomly sent them out to our guests. So some got white and some got blue. Hopefully when they saw the other color at their friends house it was like, "Cool! Mine is different!" and not, "What?! Why didn't I get blue? :(" But so far they've been a big hit with our families and friends. We think they set the tone for the wedding and introduce our website where we've been getting loads of traffic. More on that to come!
***NOTE: If you're interested in having a Save the Date or any other part of your invitation suite created by Cristin Burton, she can be reached at cristinburton@gmail.com.
Monday, May 4, 2009
The Save the Dates have been Delivered!
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Love these save-the-dates! I just sent mine out too (for my Sept. 11th Austin wedding). They are also music poster inspired. I'll be posting about them soon on my blog!
ReplyDeleteThis cracks me up - I too did a music poster / western inspired save the date for a wedding at Mercury Hall this summer. great minds think alike. I'll have to send to you...
ReplyDeleteLOVE your STDs!! Your friend Cristin did an amazing job!! I also did sort of an event theme but for my invites http://mouthfulofjoy.blogspot.com/2009/03/big-show.html
ReplyDeleteThe poster-inspired save the date is super cute. Is there a store online where I can find them?
ReplyDeleteThe designer is in the process of setting up an Etsy store now, but if you'd like to contact her for designing any of your invite suite, you can reach her at cristinburton@gmail.com. She could swap your names into these Save the Dates for a nominal fee, or for a bit more, create something totally unique and custom.
ReplyDeleteNick and I love our blue poster. It became instant art in our sparsely-decorated house when I taped it on the wall in the hallway. Thanks for being so creative! Kudos to Cristin too for a great design.
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