Map Envelope Inserts

Particularly for weddings with a lot of folks coming in from out of town, including a map along in your invitation can help keep your guests from getting lost. While a map printed on a little card is nice and all, it's standard and can get forgotten or misplaced. Map envelope inserts, however, are awesome, and ensure that your wedding guests will make it to your big day.

Please note: I'm not planning on getting married any time soon, but I'm thrilled to be able to share this idea/technique with folks who are!


If you have any questions, need any advice/assistance, or would rather someone whip these puppies up for you feel free to comment, or shoot me a note here or on Twitter.

Step 1: You'll Need. . .

If you want to cut them out yourself:

• Computer with a photo editing program
• Printer
• Paper
• Scissors
• Double-stick tape
• Envelopes

If you want to have them cut for you (aka "the easy" way):

• Computer with a photo editing program
• A printing service (I've used this one and found them to be reliable and fast and their prints are really good quality)
• Envelopes

Comments

[SicilianMafia]

This is an excellent idea! The ONLY thing I find flawed with this is that people tend to rip open the top of the envelope, rendering the map useless. Perhaps an extremely easy-to-open pull tab on the flap would solve that problem.

[shesparticular]

Awesome point! When I've done this in the past for holiday cards and moving announcements, I used a wax seal instead of wetting and sealing the envelope. At least in my experience, it seems that when people encounter a wax seal they tend to try to keep it intact, and thus don't rip the awesome map.

[nickyb1000]

This is a fantastic project. There is a free piece of software which might help speed this stage up. It's called AutoStich
http://cvlab.epfl.ch/~brown/autostitch/autostitch.html

It is really simple to use, you load the photos you want to stitch together and it does it automatically. Its really usefull for creating panoramas and i imagine for this project too!! I'm definitly giving this a go.

[shesparticular]

Thanks! That's a good tip - personally I think putting them together is kind of fun, but this would for sure make it faster.

[cdawisconsin]

I love that this idea allows someone to enclose a map, which I find to be extremely helpful, but to do it in a way that doesn't take away from the main event, the invite =) Brilliant.

[shesparticular]

Thanks so much! I think that's a major benefit of it also.

[RollerScrapper]

I love it!
We did a google map with directions on the back and restaurant recommendations for out of towners, which had an unintended result of people giving us gift certificates to restaurants. While that was totally awesome, if I had to do it again is be really tempted to use this format!

[shesparticular]

That's also an awesome idea!

[ChrysN]

Great idea!

[shesparticular]

Thanks!

[sunshiine]

Nice job shesparticular!

[shesparticular]

Thanks sunshiine!

[wilgubeast]

This is awesome. No more fielding ninety phone calls fifteen minutes after a party was supposed to start. This is brilliant.

[shesparticular]

Thanks! I think they'd also be super cute for moving notices.

[mikeasaurus]

wow, cool idea!

[shesparticular]

Thanks - that really means a lot!