ucfjennifer

Thanks! I'm thinking of doing the boarding pass invites!

Here is the "blank" template!

Save the Date Passports.xlsx

Hi Ladies!  I found so many great threads on the passport invites, that I decided to attempt a scaled-down version to use for our save the dates.  I'm happy with the way they turned out and they ended up costing less than 60 cents per passport (not including the paper/corner cutters and mounting squares since I already had them).

Materials:

Paper Cutter

Corner Cutter

Double-sided Mounting Squares

8.5 x 11 Plum Metallic Card Stock (Michaels)

8.5 x 11 Gray Stationary (Staples)

Magnets (Michaels)

A1 Silver Metallic Envelopes (Envelopes.com)

Outside Cover (template on 1st page of attachment):

1) Design Logo - I designed a simple logo in PowerPoint using a palm tree image and our names.

2) Design Cover - I decided to create my template in Excel.  I'm in it all day for work so it is the software that I'm the most comfortable with.

3) Print/Finish Cover - I setup the template so it will print 4 mini passport covers on each sheet of card stock.  I separated them with the paper cutter, then folded each in half and used the corner cutter to cut the corners.  The size of folded mini passport is 2.6 x 3.75.

Print 4 per sheet - ink is actually darker than it appears in these pictures

Folded size 2.6" x 3.75"

Inside (template on 2nd page of attachment):

1) Top Half - We wrote a brief note to our guests to let them know the destination and dates.

2) Bottom Half - Included our basic wedding day information and our wedding website.

3) Print/Finish Insert - I followed the same process as above using gray stationary for the inserts.

Assembly:

1) I used the double-sided mounting squares to attach the insert to the inside of the cover.  The front cover is upright (portrait), but the passport must be turned on its side (landscape) to view the inside information.

2) Added a small magnet to the back. 

3) Mailed in A1 metallic envelopes.  The envelopes were a little larger than the passport, but they got the job done!

I'm going to make a generic version of my template and add it to this thread in case anyone would like to use as a starting point to make your own!

Just wanted to stop by and say good luck and best wishes to all of the July brides!! Enjoy your special day!!

My friend just did this at her wedding last month! Her nephew carried the ring in a plastic safe. He was dressed in his suit and had on an earpiece and sunglasses. It was great and everyone loved it!

I love coming back to so many posts!! This was a really great idea for a thread! Work has been terrible this week but I just managed to hit 150 tonight! It feels good! Lol!

I did it!!!!!! 150! It feels good! Lol!

Great job! I'm leaning towards boarding pass invites!

I'm gonna check this out!!

That is gorgeous!!!!!!

Another vote for the last one! It's very close to my inspiration cake, just add some purple flowers!!

I'm gonna check these out!!

I haven't tried anything on yet, but the Reese is absolutely gorgeous!

I'm still early in the planning, but thinking we will have a welcome cocktail hour and give them then.

Congratulations and welcome to the forum!!!!

Very nice! Great job!

Congrats and welcome to the forum!

Congrats and welcome!! Happy planning!!

Congrats and welcome to the forum!!

A lot to catch up on since yesterday!!! I hope I didn't miss any questions, but here goes..... Favorite moment - Doing the simple things together, like taking our dogs for a walk at night. Favorite vacation - Our cruise last year. It was the first time we'd been away for a week. We live together, but it was so great to be away from work and home responsibilities and just relax together! How we met - At a bar! I walked up to him (after a drink or two for liquid courage)!

Hi Tinkerbell!! I was actually looking at the Paradise when trying to decide which ship we wanted to take to get us to Cozumel! Are you doing the 5-day? We ended up finding a personal vacation planner at Carnival to help coordinate the bookings. At first I was gonna try to help the newbies, but realized that would be way too much work! We are having everyone book the ought the PVP at whatever rate they want and then he is linking us so we will all be seated together for dinner. DIY passports went well! I've gotten a lot of comments on them! Now that they are done, I kinda feel like I'm at a stand-still until its time to start on the invitations.

We are having a separate honeymoon about 6 months later.

These are really great!!

I'm 17 away and finding it hard to find new things to comment on! Ahhhhh! So close!

I like your idea of putting only the year on the monogram items. We have a logo with our names on it that I am going to change to Key West & Cozumel since those are our cruise ports. I was debating on the date, but now I'm def going to use your idea!