I heart Vistaprint, let me count the ways!

1) My first Vistaprint purchase was spawned from my agony in finding the best way to make place cards. I am no good with designing images, and I really wanted to avoid messing with printing them all off, cutting them to size, etc. SO. I saw tons of ladies rave about VP, so I figured that I could design a business card and attach it to a postcard (two VP items that they give away for free all.the.time.) The business card has a light strip across the middle where I will add the guests name, and a line in the bottom corner to desgnate which table they are seated at.

2) The second freebie that I went for was a yard sign with appropriately placed arrows to point our guests in the correct direction of the reception. The signage for AEC is non-existent from the street, so I knew I would have to create something to ensure that nobody missed the turn! The sign was free for front and back printing, and the stand was only an additional $2.00 or so.

3) After I received the reception yard sign, I was definitely addicted to VP. We are having a rather large rehearsal dinner (60 people), and not everyone will be familiar with the Church or the building layout. I decided to make this sign to direct guests to the BBQ. Now I just need to put together a iPod mix of old-ish country songs to play during the dinner!

4) In thinking of what to put in the Out of Town gift bags, I decided that some bags will be different than others. Some will have more specific itineraries, and some will need extra maps to pre-wedding events. So that the hotel knows which bag goes to whom, I designed these adorable postcards from VP that I will punch a hole in and attach to one of the bag handles with the appropriate guests name on the other side of the card.

5) When I was trying to decide how to decorate the chinese take out boxes for our flavored popcorn bar, I knew that putting a ribbon around it my hinder our stacking ability. My mom suggested that we have some sort of sticker on the front of the box, if anything. I knew that Michael's or Hobby Lobby would have monogrammed envelope seals, but on a hunch I went to VP to check out their design selection. Sure enough, they had just what I wanted! The finished product isn't in yet, but I am really excited to receive them and see how they look on the boxes.

6) Another freebie! This is a car door magnet that I scored...I am hoping to remember to affix this to our getaway car.

7) I purchased these 'rack cards' as inserts for our OOT welcome bags. I was going to just print something out off a word document, but since Living Social had a deal for $10 for $50 worth of VP products, I splurged. I listed some popular places for our guests to visit while they're in town if they want to experience a little of what Dallas has to offer and added our cell phone numbers so that people could contact us if they were lost, needed directions, etc.

8) I love this shirt! I got it for maybe $7 from a deal through Ebates, PLUS I got cash back on my overall purchase.

9) I also got these linen finish Thank You cards with the Living Social deal. I splurged for the envelopes with the same lighter pattern.  I think I will just use these for shower thank you's and splurge for formal wedding gift TY's from our stationer.

I've gotten a few other items like a free mouse pad, personalized sticky notes, a pen, and return address labels. I'm going to be ordering some Mr. and Mrs. B return address labels soon, which gets me giddy just thinking about them!