Wedding Save the Date

For our save the date, my sister Kelsey created a vintage "Greetings from..." postcard. I tried to find a real "Greetings from Vancouver, WA" so she wouldn't have to create one, trying places like Fred Meyer and on ebay, but didn't have any luck. The closest we came was purchasing a card from an ebay vendor, but she never sent the card or responded to any of my emails. When I finally resorted to giving her negative feedback on her vendor profile, she finally responded, but of course had a million excuses. Then she had the audacity to give negative feedback to Evan's account, which made Evan mad...but at me! Oops!



Kelsey also made sure to incorporate our wedding colors, cranberry and brown, and of course added in local Vancouver flair with photos of real landmarks and statues in the area.

The other side of the postcard has the first picture take of Evan and me together. When he came down to visit for the first time, I took him to Oaks Park in Portland. They had a photobooth there that actually had a high quality camera with a good printer. This picture is still on our fridge!



This card was also the first time we introduced the "believe" theme to the guests. Little did I know how much "believe" would stick, where now many of the signs in our home, have been given several Christmas ornaments, and been sent cards among other things and all say BELIEVE!

We hand wrote all the guests' addresses on traditional red mailing labels. Since the postcard had images on both sides, we ended up sending the postcard in an envelope. Mom found cute postage stamps that we thought went with the vintage travel theme and we stamped three different travel stamps on the envelope in brown and cranberry ink.



Over the next couple of months, Mom was still on a hunt to find vintage postcards and things to help with our invitation. She found an old Academy postcard and a Washington postcard that she thought we would be able to somehow use.

The lawn on the right is now a parking lot.

The back of The Academy postcard.

An old postcard featuring Washington State all its cities. Hand drawn icons represent what that city was known for at the time. Take note that Vancouver is spelled wrong.

The postcard is from 1948.