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Wedding Stamps

Tuesday, January 4th, 2011 at 6:57 pm  
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Using wedding stamps is a delightful way to personalize your wedding invitations and your thank-you notes. For the invitations, start with a nice photo of the bride and groom. It will be just over one inch squared, so you want to select a photo that will read well. Instead of a full-body picture of the couple, use their two faces. You could even use a photo-collage made with Photoshop Elements or a similar program if you wanted to.

You need to know roughly how many invitations you will be sending out. Then click on the image below to go to an excellent website for designing your wedding stamps. You can play with a zoom feature, and borders and colors, till you get it how you like it. Then order as many as you want, in whatever denomination you want. You typically pay with a credit card, and the stamps will soon arrive by mail. If you are in a rush, you can order faster delivery.


After your wedding, likely you will have some nice photos of the big day. You could easily create some elegant wedding stamps to use for thank you notes, featuring one of the wedding photos. I bet a lot of people would keep those as souvenirs!

Wedding Stamps Are Fun!

Thursday, April 8th, 2010 at 6:58 pm  
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It is a lot of fun to use wedding stamps. If you are planning your wedding, whether or not you are using a wedding planner, be sure to inject as much fun into the whole process as you can! That will make the more routine parts go by more easily too.

Wedding stamps add a really nice note to any mailings that you do related to your wedding. As the image below says, probably the main uses are for wedding invitations and for after-the-fact thank-you notes. These could be two different ones, since you could use an actual photo of the wedding on the thank you’s. You can order this postage to come quickly.

There are a variety of other ways you could use custom wedding stamps at the time of a wedding. Having any parties beforehand, just for guys or just for gals? Or if you want the people to RSVP whether they are coming to the big event, include an RSVP card and envelope in your invitation and have the wedding stamp you designed on the RSVP envelope. You can probably think of other uses too.

To find out more about making this unique postage, click on the image. By the way, it is quick and easy to do!


Once you get to the new site that this image takes you to, notice that one of the choices on the top menu bar is “wedding advisor.” That should give you some more good ideas! And have a great wedding!

Are PhotoStamps in Good Taste for Weddings?

Wednesday, September 26th, 2007 at 7:51 pm  
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Weddings are a very popular way that people use PhotoStamps, so I was intrigued when I found a query on a wedding website, where someone was asking if using PhotoStamps for her wedding was ‘just too cheesy.’

Nobody answered her at the forum and by now her wedding is likely over, but if one person wonders about this, others will too. I’d like to go on record as saying that using wedding PhotoStamps to mail your invitations or thank you notes is not a cheesy thing to do!

All you need to do to be sure that your wedding PhotoStamps are in good taste is to design them to have a fairly simple layout. If you are going to use them for both the invitations and the thank you notes, you can’t go wrong with a picture taken during the ceremony. If you decide that will be of the bride and groom, then for the invitation you could use another photo of them, or you could select anything you wanted — from a graceful design to a nature shot.

When my husband and I got married (ahem, that was some time before the creation of PhotoStamps!) our wedding invitations featured photos of each us at about six years old. This idea could be adapted nicely for the invitations. You’d likely be scanning in old photos, or perhaps taking pictures of them with a digital camera, and then cropping them down a lot. Try going in pretty close on the faces or at least the upper bodies, so that the children are recognizable as the adults they have now become. If you like to play around in a photo editing program of any sort, you could turn the photos to sepia tones, just for that old-fashioned look.

Well, all this is about creating PhotoStamps that are nice, but what about the very idea of doing it? Does it have a cheese factor? I’m in good company in saying no. Martha Stewart is into personalized postage!

Perhaps sometime in the future, when PhotoStamps become much more popular, they will lack the surprise value that they have now. But at present, and likely for some time to come, wedding PhotoStamps add flair and fun to a special event. Here’s an example… click on it to find out more!


Two Ways to Use PhotoStamps for Weddings

Wednesday, September 26th, 2007 at 7:23 pm  
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People are creating PhotoStamps® with many different subjects on them, and using them in connection with weddings is one very popular method. There are two main ways that people are using PhotoStamps for weddings:

  • Before the wedding for invitations
  • Afterwards for thank-you notes

When you are mailing out invitations, often quite a lot of effort and expense go into choosing just the right look. What better way to enhance the overall elegance of the invitations than to have a customizedPhotoStamp with a picture of the happy couple on it? It also adds a nice personal touch. Friends and relatives who are far away will appreciate at least this little glimpse.

Wedding planners can add PhotoStamps  to the variety of services that they offer to engaged couples. With all that there is to do before a marriage ceremony, it’s easy for little details to get lost in the shuffle unless someone is keeping track! Of course, you would have get a nice photo, and since the artwork will be about 1.1 inches square, a shot of the two heads looks terrific.

Now, lots of people don’t like their pictures taken and if that is the case with the bride or groom, you certainly don’t want to hassle them about it… not much, anyway! But you could let your imagination go to work on how to create an image that represented them. Maybe you could use a few words done in attractive fonts and colors, saying “Eileen and George invite you!” or something of the sort.

At some time after the big day, there are thank-you notes to write. Here’s a great opportunity to use PhotoStamps® showing the bride and groom. The image below is a good illustration of how these can turn out, and clicking on it takes you to the company that manufactures PhotoStamps: