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"Since our mailbox is usually stuffed with bills and unwanted solicitations, it&amp;amp;#8217;s thrilling when there&amp;amp;#8217;s a postcard addressed to me and Paul (and not &amp;amp;#8220;our friends at [insert our address here]&amp;amp;#8221;). But we were a little surprised when we took a good look at our friends&amp;amp;#8217; wedding save the date the other day&amp;amp;#133; Postcards are a fabulous alternative to the card-in-envelope wedding save the date for a couple of reasons: No envelopes means less waste and fewer trees used, and postcard postage is only 28 cents, a whole 16 cents cheaper than their envelope counterparts. But there&amp;amp;#8217;s a big caveat as we learned from our friends&amp;amp;#8217; save the date. Post offices do a lot of stamping to mail after you&amp;amp;#8217;ve already affixed your stamp. There&amp;amp;#8217;s a bar code at the bottom, that set of squiggly lines that go over your stamp to prevent the stamp from being used again (or at least I think that&amp;amp;#8217;s the intended reason), and the postmark with the date the post office received the mail and which post office that was. Since all of our friends&amp;amp;#8217; wedding info went in the same space as these many stamps, a lot of the essential wedding details were blocked out! We were able to piece together what they were trying to convey, but it wasn&amp;amp;#8217;t easy, and you don&amp;amp;#8217;t want to make your guests work hard to figure out the info on your save the date. A good rule of thumb: Keep all text and photos below your stamp and above the last pre-printed line for the recipient&amp;amp;#8217;s address on the postcard. Are you considering save the date postcards? Did you know to keep your info in the center of the card and far from the top and bottom (it was news to me!)? If you got a save the date like that, would you tell the couple you had a hard time reading it or just do your best to figure out the info? More Save the Date Advice How to Get Your Guests to Really Save the Date Reader&amp;amp;#8217;s Dilemma: Do I Have to Invite Everyone Who Received a Save the Date? How to Nail the Save the Date Video More Ways to Get Glamour Visit Shopglamour.com for cute stuff starting at just $10! Enter the latest Glamour sweepstakes! Follow us on Twitter Add us to your iGoogle homepage Photo: Jupiterimages"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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