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I just recently got engaged and even though our wedding is a little under a year away, I can't help but start planning. We booked our location and picked our wedding colors and now we've started thinking about invitations and save the dates — obviously we turned to Martha.

We picked up a Martha Stewart Weddings magazine at the grocery store yesterday and fell in love with one of her save the date suggestions. My fiance and I have discussed that we're certainly not traditional people and we want each part of our wedding to be as fresh and fun as possible. We can't think of a more fun save the date option than this!

To get the look:

• Download the text of the card, red squiggle and envelope liner squiggle.
• Fill in your own wedding details on the editable file you just downloaded and print on card stock.
• Print red squiggle on same side of the card stock (so it's printed over the wedding details).
• Print envelope liner, cut and glue to envelope.
• Purchase decoder lens online (or at local store).

We cannot believe how simple and easy these DIY cards are. What makes them even better is that these would be so great for any occasion. With a little edit of the "save the date" text, you can easily send these out for your annual halloween party, leaving the recipient to decode the party location.

Images: Martha Stewart Weddings

Comments (18)

Very awesome, but I do have usability concerns for certain segments of the population. There is no reason to not have a back up for those more challenged relatives/friends though I suppose. Ah screw it... it's cool.

My daughter chose this for her save the date cards. They were fun and unique!

How untraditional to pick wedding colors and start planning a Martha Stewart wedding over a year before the event.

This is awesome! Only problem is that if you hang it on your refrigerator to remind you, you can't read it!

Even untraditional weddings have colors and need planning.

This is great, but...

*Apartment* Therapy.

There've been an awful lot of wedding type posts lately. This is a decor/design blog. Maybe it's time AT rolled out a wedding specific blog.

@failjolesfail you kind of contradicted yourself. This might be called Apartment Therapy, but it is a decor and design blog, and this definitely falls under decor and design. By the "Apartment Therapy" moniker, we shouldn't have any house tours in which an actual house is featured, nor should we discuss pets, nor should we discuss gift ideas like the latest post about the DIY wine cozy.

Cute idea, but I'm sure that some relatives would find this quite challenging to read.

The most gorgeous wedding I ever went to very decidedly had no "colors". This was in Europe. They had gorgeous white linens and great silver and china and old lace, but absolutely no "colors" and no color coded bridesmaid and all that American wedding industrial complex stuff. The flowers were multi-color, and the ones in the church were not the same colors as the ones at the party. It was fabulous, elegant, and very much not Martha Stewart.

I think this is a wonderful idea, but are you getting married on August 28, 2010, or 2011? The print is pretty small, but it looks like 2010, which of course has already passed.

And regarding what kind of blog this is, I think the editor has that covered. I learned how to line envelopes here, and now it's one of my favorite things to do. I can't wait to run out of lined envelopes. And I need to get to work making a template and lining my Christmas card envelopes.

And I may use this invitation for my next open house. It's cute cute cute.

this is what 'hint' books for computer games used to look like when i was a kid! badass!

This could be easily translated into a fun piece to hang on the wall!

Hi! I LOVE the save the date idea. I found it on Martha Stewart as well. Did anyone already make them? I just ran one through the printer to make sure that they "worked". I can totally see the blue save the date writings through the red squiggles. Did you ? How did you remedy this? I would love any advise!! THANKS :)

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