DIY: Personalized Save the Date Magnets
Written by Jen Kiaba Barry Saturday, 06 March 2010 21:35
The best thing about incorporating Do It Yourself into your wedding is that it allows for your personal style to shine through. And it terms of wedding correspondence, Save the Date cards are a great way to let that run wild. In scouring the web for some fun DIY Save the Date cards, the idea that I was most struck with was making magnets!
Let me tell you a little something about my darling boyfriend: he knows when Christmas and St. Patrick's Day are. He's fuzzy on his mother's birthday and we decided long ago to celebrate a spontaneous anniversary. 
So when his cousin sent him a Save the Date card for a wedding last spring, I immediately took the card and practically glued it to my fridge.
Why not save date-impaired people (and their girlfriends!) the extra step by sending that Save the Date card as a magnet already?
This is an extremely easy craft, and for those of you who are limited on time you can also have magnets made for you (more on that later).
Supplies:
- A cute photo of you and your fiance
- Paper
- Scissors
- Sheets of adhesive magnets (3.5" x 2" is a good size!)
Directions:
There are lots of ways to vary this one and have it come out with your personal mark it on. If you plan ahead, you can even have your engagement portraits photographer in on the craft!
Take a photo of you and your fiance. If you can find a location with a cute weathered or vintage sign that can be Photoshopped with your wedding info onto it, bonus (this is where your engagement portrait photographer could come in)! If not, just an adorable photo will do.
Stick the photo onto a piece of the adhesive magnet sheet. Now getting the wedding into onto the magnet is the fun part! I created some cutesy magnetic poetry-style words and glued them to the photo surface. For the words I used Times New Roman, size 19 font. After printing out the words, I cut them out and adhered them to appropriately sized pieces of magnets and voila!
If you don't dig on magnetic poetry, you can also find some very cute digital photo frames on the internet. Hp.com has a several cute ones you can use, and they will even print your photo in them!
Not feeling very crafty? Sites like Magnet.com let couples to create their own Save the Date magnets. You send your wedding information, photos, and any artwork and their graphic artists design your magnets. Pretty sweet!
The DIY Stats:
Cost – Expect to spend about $30 on 100 3.5" x 2" adhesive magnet sheets. Use that figure to calculate an approximate cost based on your guest list.
Difficulty – Another very easy one.
Time – Depending on how you decide to design your magnet, time spent could vary. Once you have a design ready, each magnet can be done in a few minutes.
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Jen Kiaba is a photographer and burgeoning crafter who lives in Rhinebeck, NY with her lovely boyfriend, two crazy cats and an adorable basset hound. When her hands aren't covered in tacky glue, she specializes in taking romantic portraits of happy couples in the Hudson Valley!