Save The Dates

There are literally thousands of wedding Save the Dates designs from a multitude of companies. We know it can be overwhelming when you have so much to plan already for your wedding! Trust us that oftentimes it helps to find the designers that match your personal style. If you can do that then it is much easier to find the perfect Save the Date card. To make it simple for you we always update our compilation of our favorite card designs from top designers in the section below. Find the perfect designer that most reflects your own personal style and taste. Enjoy! Scroll down to see our favorite designs.

Annie Clark is a San Francisco based designer whose wedding Save the Dates are featured on Minted. She got her start as as a wedding invitation designer at a local boutique and recently was a winner of Minted’s Design Challenge contest in April 2008. Of Annie’s 62 designs, 43 were selected by the community to be available for purchase.

Apple Blossom
This was the design that won first place in Minted’s Save a Date Design Challenge receiving a cumulative score of 3.70 which was tops for all designs submitted! I adore this card, the colors are soft and subtle with light brown and beige and green. The apple blossoms cross over the top and I “heart” the playful block font used for the couple’s name. In addition to a green blossom color you can choose pink blossom color. One really unique offering from Minted is that if you want a different look for a fee of $15 you can have a professional designer customize any of the existing cards with your own special color instructions.

Calligraphy Save the Date
This is photo Save the Date card that is available in signature paper, recycled paper, or pearlescent paper. The last option gives a subtle shimmer finish which is quite nice. The card focuses on your own custom photo and has “Save the Date” in calligraphy writing for a classic style.

Sarah Hawkins Designs started out with Sarah just designing wedding invitations for her family and friends. Eventually, the demand for her designs grew and her part-time hobby became a full-time career. First, designing wedding invitations and birth announcements for local brides and new parents, then growing the business by selling baby announcements online. Sarah lives in Pittsburgh and has done work for such clients as Tiffany & Co., Heinz, and PPG. Sarah’s stationery designs have been used by many celebrities and featured in many magazines.

Love Stamp
This Save the Date card takes the classic US postal mail theme and turns it into what I consider one of the most memorable Save the Dates available. The eco-friendly italian made paper acentuates the design and a rich red coloring highlights you and your fiancés names.

Floral Flurry
The Floral Flurry wedding Save the Date card is a contemporary design with beautiful magenta flowers on a green background. If you want a Save the Date that will stand out this could be the one.

Reef Romance
The Reef Romance wedding Save the Date card is playful design that features a school of fish in aquamarine turquoise. The fish are contrasted with a white background which I adore. If you prefer the card also comes with green or orange fish.

Helena Seo Design is an award winning designer trained at the California College of Arts. While her focus is on branding work for corporate clients such as Starbucks, Target, and Nokia, she has some amazing wedding Save the Date card designs.

Belle Memoire
This photo Save the Date card features a sepia-toned photograph that looks almost like a long-cherished Polaroid. It is accentuated by the striking bold date for your wedding. It seems to speak to the many future memories that will await on this special day.

Float Paperie is a Chicago based firm that offers a mix of modern, classic and elegant design for all types of occasions including weddings, baby showers, birthdays, and more. Many of the designs utilize printing techniques such as letter press, engraving (raised printing), and offset lithography (flat). The lead designer trained at Paper Source and now does designs for Minted as well as custom design work.

Float & Celebrate
This is one of those photo Save the Date cards that allow you to be creative with your own special photo. It’s a basic design that can work well with a color, sepia, or black & white photo. I personally think black and white works best for this Save the Date as it allows the green fonts to really “pop” out at you.

Save the Date cards can be purchased from many places both online and in local retail stores. Luckily there are many different great options ranging from economical to high end and various types available including some truly unique Save the Date cards, magnets, postcards, and photo cards.

To save you work, we have researched to find the best place to buy Save the Dates depending on your budget and personal style. Hopefully you can find one that is for you one of a kind. If you don’t see our vendor recommendations please click here and scroll down afterwards.

Kelle Boyd of Ann Kelle Designs has always had a love of art and drawing. At age 9 she was a self confessed “fashionista” designing her own line of kid’s clothes and dresses. In 2006 she finally made the leap from a career in public policy to full time designer. She describes her style as “simple, sweet, and sassy.” She is inspired by simple things in life like ties, spring flowers, ice cream, and even the sweater vest she wore in the grade school.

Smiling Squares
If you want a photo Save the Date card that really lets your pictures shine this could be the one! I like the teal and gray boxes that flank the pictures. It’s also printed on Italian made eco-friendly paper.

Wedding Paper Divas is one of our favorite places for Save the Dates. They are part of Tiny Prints the company that offers custom designed holiday cards, photo cards, and baby announcements for all kinds of family occasions.

The company partners with well known and up and coming wedding invitation designers from across the country. Many of its Save the Date cards are exclusive designs not available anywhere else. While they offer Save the Dates they also have wedding invitations, bridal shower invitations and thank you cards.

The overall quality of the Save the Dates from Wedding Paper Divas is top notch as the company uses the latest digital printing technology which ensures high gloss photos and the perfect cards. They are also known for being able to process and deliver cards quickly in case you don’t have a lot of time. However, quality comes at a price and Wedding Paper Diva’s Save the Date cards are premium priced at typically between $1.25 to $3.00 per card. Some designs with letter press or higher weight paper can easily be over $3.00 per card. Although you do receive discounted pricing with higher order quantities. Overall, from a price vs. quality stand point we still think Wedding Paper Divas offers the best value in terms of Save the Date cards. However, if you are interested in magnets they unfortunately do not carry Save the Date magnets.

Another positive is the high degree of personalization allowed. For most designs, you can choose different fonts, font colors, customize messages, and even edit photos to include sepia highlights or convert color photos to black and white. This really let’s you make custom cards. Wedding Paper Divas offers both traditional Save the Date Cards as well as Photo Save the Dates.

One of our favorite designers is Turquoise Creative that creates the Happy Branch Save the Date photo card. The designs are stunning with beautiful pastel colors and clean lines and simple fonts. Many of the designs offer the ability to add a custom photo that is printed as part of the card. And of course you can customize the content including the message and the date and venue of your wedding. To see more of our recommendations for Wedding Paper Divas Save the Dates check out Our Favorite Designs.

Joy Deangdeelert Cho is the designer behind Oh Joy! Studio. Before stepping out on her own in 2006 she worked for the Cynthia Rowley Swell line at Target. Joy says she gets her inspiration from textures, patterns, and the beautiful colors that she sees everywhere whether it be in nature, architecture, or even clothing.

Charming Couple
While the date in a Save the Date card is certainly important. I personally think the fact that you and your fiancé are together as one couple is most important. So the “and” is key. This card from Oh Joy! takes this to heart with a big and bold yellow ampersand that emphasizes your new commitment to each other. It really pops out amid the turquoise background.

Coloring Cricket creates cards exclusively for Wedding Paper Divas. The designer Christine Welch is an Iowa based designer who grew up in the Northern Sierras a backdrop of natural elegance that she incorporates into her Coloring Cricket Save the Date card designs.

Snowy Love
This is a perfect card to celebrate the winter. It features a midnight blue background that is highlighted by white snowflakes and dots. You can create a personalized Save the Date card by adding in 3 different pictures of you and your fiancé. Whether you are having a winter or summer wedding it will warm the hearts of your guests this winter.

Tandem Bike
The Tandem Bike card is sweet and stylish featuring an old classic two seater bike for you and your sweetheart. It comes in 3 colors including pink, pumpkin, and emerald. I prefer pink but the emerald green is lovely as well. How cute is the save the date banner that is flying from the back of the bike seat?

Feather is by the same designer as Petite Alma as seen on Tiny Prints. It offers a higher end more refined line of wedding invitations that use more complex techniques to make exquisite Save the Dates.

Stylish Script
If you want a classic black and white card then this design by Feather could be perfect. It features cursive script at the top and simple serif font for your names, the date, and location of your wedding. I especially like how the “save the date” cursive script is written almost as if it was written with an actual water brush with the dark and lighter areas. Who says that black and white is boring? Please do keep in mind that this is a square save the date card and so postage via the united states postal service will cost extra since they can not be machine scanned. This square envelope surcharge typically costs about 20 cents per card in addition to standard postage. So it can be a significant extra cost so please keep that in mind.

Stem Silhouette
This delicate design by Feather features a bird on a branch in the center. The drawings are cute and basic and the choice of fonts really complement the bird and branch.

Paper Poppies
This is a save the date card that gets a ton of great reviews. It features translucent poppies in wonderful colors including medium pink, deep plum, or pumpkin. It’s a modern card that has a bold style. The couples’ names are printed in matching font color to the poppies. Also, if you like the Save the Dates you can get matching envelopes, thank you cards, wedding invitations, and more.

Natural Wildflower
The Natural Wildflower wedding Save the Date card is a classic, pure and simple. It features a breathtakingly intricate wildflower with such texture that it looks like the genuine article. It comes in a brown, orange, or red color palette and features cursive lettering for “Save the Date”. It’s hard to go wrong with such a great design.

Jenny Romanski is the founder of Hello Little One. The tagline of which is “develops hip stationery for the modern family”. She is a graduate of Boston College and also the Massachusetts College of Art. Jenny has partnered exclusively with Tiny Prints and Wedding Paper Divas to offer her designs. Jenny prides herself on using hip colors, modern layouts, and most of all unique patterns that are unlike anything else. Her designs always have a perfect balance of color and freshness.

Date Boxes
The colors of this wedding Save the Date card are just so bold and bright. I love the green with the shades of pink for the actual date of your wedding. The focus of the card is just the date of your wedding, which really is the purpose of a Save the Date card. So with this card it is mission accomplished.

Posh Perfection
If you prefer the focus of your Save the Dates card to be a wonderful picture of you and your fiancé then this could be the one for you. It allows you to select a custom picture and accents it with elegant white lines that go along the bottom of the card. Just make sure to pick the perfect picture for your Save the Date.

Merry Branch
I am a big fan of floral print Save the Date cards. They just seem to bring out the spirit of a wedding in my mind. Especially when you are having a spring or summer outdoor wedding. This design by Jenny features a floral vine along the right side set on a purple background. It also comes in an orange or brown background.

Wedding Paper Divas has a line that they call Signature White that features some basic but exquisite designs. These designs allow you to take a lot of the creativity and put it in your own hands by customizing your Save the Dates with personal pictures. One thing to note is that for these designs Wedding Paper Divas designers will check the resolution of your pictures that you submit. However, they do not edit or touch up the photographs using photoshop or anything similar. So make sure you have quality checked your photos beforehand.

Photo Squares
This Save the Date card is basically just a 3 by 3 grid of photographs. But the great thing is that you can select 8 of your very own pictures to remind your guests of the special date. This really gives you the chance to show off your own personal style and personality because as they say 8 pictures is worth 8,000 words!

Lady Jae is a couture paperie and wedding invitation design studio started by Lisa. While they make custom invitations and announcements they also provide some fantastic Save the Dates for Wedding Paper Divas. There site is about to get revamped so be sure to check it out in the future. They also make some adorable tin boxes that can make darling lunch boxes for your daughter or favorite niece.

Watercolor Wonder
This is a unique Save the Date card that was supposedly inspired by a cool ocean breeze blowing across the Pacific Ocean. The unique green and aquamarine accents twist along and strike the S in Save the Date. It’s also printed on recycled paper so in addition to being a beautiful card it is better for the environment.

Painted Periwinkles
If you want a Save the Date card that captures the elegance and beauty of a impressionist water color painting then this is exactly for you. There are beautiful plum colored touches that appear as soft brush strokes of paint that give it a whispy, summer feel. Another great design by Lady Jae.

Turquoise Creative is the design shop of Misha Zadeh. Based in Seattle, Misha has a definite artist’s eye for exquisite detail. Her work often features rich texture, has a wonderful and graceful depth, and what I consider to be true individuality. As a child of two architects, Misha was encouraged to appreciate creating beautiful objects and she carries on that tradition to this day.

Blooming Tree
The Blooming Tree is a Save the Dates for weddings card that has an exquisite style with a touch of nature. It features brown branches that extend from the right with small cherry blossom like buds about to bloom. The names of the couple are printed in a rich red cursive font that matches the red buds of the branch.

Golden Gate
For all of you who are having weddings in San Francisco here is the card for you. The Golden Gate is a Save the Dates for weddings card that features the iconic golden gate bridge from one of the most romantic cities in the world. It comes in cherry red, slate blue, and chocolate. Choose the color that best matches your taste and let people know that you are getting married in the city by the bay.

Dreamy Reeds
This Save the Date card comes in a beautiful turquoise color and creates a clean and open look with the typography to the left and the reeds off on the right. It is a part of an overall set and you can get matching wedding invitations.

Magnolia Press is a new designer for Wedding Paper Divas. I don’t know much about the firm or who is behind it. If you have any information please comment or email me via the contact form so I can add some information to this post. In any case, Magnolia Press has some adorable Save the Dates that take advantage of the ability to include a customized picture. There are two cards in particular that I am keen on and they both use a light teal blue which is one of my favorite colors.

Beautiful Band
This is an especially elegant Save the Date card. It has a sleek sophisticated look that places a basic blue banner with your wedding information on it. This is quite striking especially when paired with a wonderful black and white engagement photo like the one seen here. I also really like the contrast of the cursive style headline with the couple’s names and the more basic block letters with the wedidng info below.

Extraordinary Style
Again this Save the Date card has a blue teal band of color. This design has more of a postcard look which I think is quite charming.It also makes use of cursive font for the couple’s names but also adds the initials in the background in light blue font. A simple yet extraordinary Save the Date card.

Ashley Dally is an Arlington, Virginia based commercial art and graphic designer. She is the lead designer for Matt Mendelsohn photography. Minted.com has some of her designs and they really stand out for the attention to detail they provide.

Italian Sunset
This is one of those Save the Dates that light and warm in its tones and colors. It features a sunburst of colored dots that is vibrant and festive. And of course you can add a Save the Dates photo that complements the radiant frame.

What I also really like about this card is that there is the ability to include what is called a “yearline”. Basically it’s not just a flat card, but a folded Save the Date where you can include a number of important dates on the inside to share with your guest. This could include your engagement date and a recap of the special moment, your engagement party date, and of course your upcoming wedding date. See an example below:

Simply Put is a boutique card company started by Ashley Woodman. The company designs stationery with a minimalist approach to design. The designs are traditional with modern taste. There is also a strong respect for classic style in all of her designs and a hallmark of her cards is often the intricate illustrations. Simply Put designs wedding invitations, save the dates, and baby announcements.

Engagement Rings
This is our favorite wedding Save the Date card from Simply Put. It is a fun card with a bold brown color that plays up the diamond ring motif.