Save the Dates: Handwritten, Calligraphy, or Labels?!

I'm doing the clear labels! Saving the fancy stuff for the invites

Literally any of these options are fine as long as the addresses are neat, presentable, and readable. Pick the one that matches the style of your save the dates and go with it. There is no correct answer.

Doesn't really matter. I hand wrote the STDs and all thank yous. For the actual invite, I printed directly on the envelope.

I printed directly on the envelope for the STD. I'll be doing the same thing for our invitations.

I had the addresses all printed by the company I ordered from (Minted.com). I love the way they turned out. Personally, I am not a fan of using labels for recipient addressing (I don't even do it for m Christmas cards). I think wedding stationary deserves more than a sticker, too. I'm not even using them for return addresses. This is just my personal opinion (and I paid way more for my STDs and will for my invitations than planned because I fell in live with the design and their ability to do the addressing.

Great!! Thanks for the advice ladies! I think we'll try printing directly on the envelopes.

I just hand wrote them, but I wouldn't pay for calligraphy. If I could do it again, I may just save myself the time and have the addresses already printed on the envelopes.

I have a label maker at work, so I used that to make address labels for my STDs. As for invites, my aunt can do calligraphy and has offered to do it for my invites. Neither FH nor I have nice handwriting, so that option was out!

I hated the clear labels so I printed directly onto the envelopes.

I hand wrote my STDs and I dreaded it. Took way too much time. I had about 70 to write... For my invites I did clear labels with a calligraphy font. Looked very neat compared to hand written. No one has said anything about my hand written envelopes or the labels. So IMO its really up to you. They will end up in the trash anyway...

I love writing so I just hand wire all of mine on the envelope. I'll hire a calligrapher for invitations or just print them. I'm actually mailing mine off today good luck!.

I found a calligrapher on etsy and I'll be using her to address the STD's and invitations. I bought a custom stamp for the return address. Depending on how I like it for the STD's I may or may not use it for the actual invitations. There are also many sellers on etsy that will do digital calligraphy printing on your envelopes as well if you don't want to write!

@CMH to CML I understand your pain! I did 50 and my hands were so tried after writing them all. I did them in one sitting to just get them done.

We did clear labels for save the dates and then for our invitations we were able to print the address and return address directly onto our envelopes in a pretty script (although still readable). For the save the dates do yourself a favor and just print labels. You'll go nuts handwriting and hiring a calligrapher is very expensive.

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Any of those options are great and appropriate! I'd save the fancy and expensive stuff for your invitations

Sorry about that! Thanks Lynnie!

I didn't think it was worth spending the money to get the envelopes printed on, getting labels or paying for calligraphy. I just wrote both addresses on all 80ish envelopes. I did it over a week and seriously wasn't bad at all. I'm kinda shocked that others found it to be awful. Just do it while your watching TV or something and you won't even notice it.

For STDs we printed directly on the envelope in a script font.

This is something that literally no one cares about and if they do they need to get a life. Think about it, its a piece of paper people rip open and throw in the garbage. And your MIL will deal, its not that serious.

But to answer your question any of the choices you said will be ok. Heres what I did:

My STDs were printed on clear labels.

My invites were done by a calligrapher (not my choice, my bosses wife did them for free and wouldn't take no for an answer)

My thank yous for shower and wedding were hand written in boring everyday handwriting by me

I used clear labels and they worked out great! Honestly, I plan to do the same for invites.