Don't be late for my very important date!!

So these are my first little bit of DIY wedding planning, I scoured hundreds of ideas for intersting Save the Date cards and there were lots out there, but eventually I developed my own. (Although looking for the photo below on Google quickly showed me that I'm not as creative as I first thought, never mind), I was inspired by the old photo booths that should quite frankly still exist in my opinion.
(I really wanted one at the wedding but £750 was just too much to justify so hoping to get a similar effect with an instant camera!)

(Photo taken from
http://www.photobooth.net/archive/2005/09/05/buster_and_the_sheep.php) 

Unfortunately I lost the photos of me painting out the cards, but all it took was some careful measuring and a steady hand! Doing it on a budget we used vista print who are in the process of printing 100 of these cards for us, so we stuck with that shape.

So these are our final photos:

... and after a little careful editing on my beautiful new macbook, this was the finished effect...

... Fortunately the colour difference in cards was not noticeable and my only teeny tiny mistake was getting the date wrong... Luckily I realised I was getting married in 2012 not 2011 on the first 1... Hopefully squeezing the two in isn't too obvious!!

I can't wait for them to arrive from the printers!