I spent the first 18 years of my life growing up in a small town in Michigan. Most of my family still lives in the very same town I grew up in and at least once a year I head back to visit. One of the stops that I rarely miss while visiting is a local fabric shop that I’ve been going to since I was first learning to sew with my Dad and Grandma. A few years ago I found a fabric that I loved and snagged up a couple of yards to hold onto for the perfect project. That project turned out to be our wedding! The fabric is brown and aqua blue with a damask pattern, and it has become our muse for all things wedding related.
The first project that I have really had a chance to work in the damask pattern and the aqua/brown color scheme is our save the dates. At first we were thinking of going with some sort of magnet that people can leave on their fridge, but the more we thought of it the less we liked the idea. Even though this won’t be a destination wedding for us a lot of people will be travelling to attend. So after digging around the internet for some ideas on DIY save the dates we found one idea we loved: luggage tags!!
As we waited for our shipment of plastic tags to arrive I designed an insert for the front and back so we could print them out.
Here they are all printed and assembled! I love the way they turned out, and I hope our guests actually use them!
Before stuffing them into chocolate brown envelopes we attached them to aqua blue cards with our wedding blog address stamped on the bottom. Now they are all set to get mailed out!
Are you planning on sending out save the dates?
wow these are so adorable! I was so not interested in save the dates but for our destination weekend, these are fantastic. Clever and lovely. Do you mind sharing the source for the plastic tags?
Gorgeous, just gorgeous! This really makes me want to get ours done RIGHT NOW (but Liz is super busy with grad school stuff…). And the luggage tag idea is just brilliant.
Im glad you guys like them!
These were soooo fun to make! It was a lot of work putting them all together but in the end it was totally worth it!
These are the clear tags we got:
http://tags.idcardgroup.com/productdetails.aspx?item=1840-620
and the brown straps that secured them to the cards: http://tags.idcardgroup.com/productdetails.aspx?item=2420-100
I have to give a huge shout out to my fiancee Nicole! She really took the reins on this project when I had to work a ton! <3 Thank you sweets!
So lovely!
Amazing idea!
Are both sides clear? It looks like it from your pics, but The website fir the tags says one side is frosted? Can you still see images through it?