Free Save the Date Templates for Your Wedding

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Postcard rules worth knowing. To go at the postcard price, a card has to be at least 3.5 x 5 inches and no more than 4.25 x 6, between 0.007 and 0.016 inch thick, with the address running along the long side. That’s why our address side is turned sideways from the front. Most 80 to 110 lb cover stock falls within that thickness, though it varies by brand, so take one to the post office before you print the whole stack. The bottom five-eighths of an inch of the address side stays clear for the barcode the Postal Service prints.

Open the maker on the postcard · how to word the address, with printable address labels

Every line can be edited in the maker. More examples, for every host and occasion, are in the wedding invitation wording guide.

Six to eight months before the wedding is the usual window, and eight to twelve for a destination wedding or a guest list that will mostly fly in. The wedding timeline calculator works out the mailing date from your wedding date, along with the invitation and RSVP dates, and it can send that date straight into the maker.

Collect addresses first. A card that comes back undelivered tells you which address to fix before the invitations go out, which is one more reason to send them.

Choose PNG · text or email on the download step and you’ll get a picture of the front of your card, sized for a phone. Text it to a group, attach it to an email, or post it. It’s a picture and not a formatted email, so it looks the same wherever it lands, and you can put your website in the message beside it.

Plenty of couples do both, mailing cards to grandparents and anyone who’d put one on the fridge, and texting the rest. A design with a photo window takes your engagement picture: drop it in the maker and drag it into place.

1. Download the sheet PDF. Fronts on page 1 and backs on page 2, two cards to a sheet, with crop marks.
2. Print one test sheet at 100%. Turn off “fit to page,” print on plain paper, and hold it to the light to check that the backs line up.
3. Print on card stock. Check your printer’s heaviest setting, and use the rear or manual feed if it has one.
4. Cut on the crop marks. A paper trimmer gives straighter edges than scissors, and you can cut two sheets at a time.

For a print shop, choose PNG · print shop, which includes an eighth-inch bleed. A Word file of the same sheets is there too, if that’s easier to print from. It holds the finished cards as pictures, so make any changes in the maker first. Printing on colored card stock? On designs with a tinted background, the maker can leave the background color off.