Save the Date

Whatever you choose, make it fun and you're sure to get a favorable response.

• Use bright, bold colors that will make an impact and your wedding date will stay in the thoughts of even the most absentminded guests.

• Include graphics or colors that make sense to the locale and date, such as pink and red flowers if you plan to marry in the springtime in a rose garden, or a card tied up with a baby-blue gingham ribbon for an ocean-side summer soiree.

• Your save-the-date cards can be as simple as a postcard or as elaborate and interactive as a magnetic puzzle.

• We're fans of a picture taken shortly after the engagement (think holiday cards).

• Some brides favor save-the-date cookies, although you may have to send out a second reminder to all your sweet-tooth friends who might munch before they mark down your date!

• We absolutely love the idea of save-the-date stickers that will fit into those tiny boxes in appointment books or on desktop calendars.

• Refrigerator magnets -- ones with just your names and wedding date -- are cool too.

• The hottest trend is a photo strip (the kind you create yourself on a beach boardwalk) with funny faces and the wedding date. In each of the four pictures, hold up a sign.

1) We're getting married.

2) Save the Date.

3) Saturday, June 16th, 2012

4) Be there! (You get the idea.)