DIY Wedding Map Insert for Invitations
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As you might already know, I make maps for a living. So of course I had to make a DIY wedding map for our invitations! While this map wouldn’t be impressive to my colleagues in GIS (Geographic Information Systems), I think this was a pretty good map for our guests, considering I couldn’t use my work’s GIS software!
My Photoshop skills are limited to none, so I used Microsoft PowerPoint to make the map inserts. I will admit, while it is time consuming, the steps are rather easy. It took me about three hours to perfect this map to my liking, but if you aren’t as picky as I am, it shouldn’t take that long. Also, it’s pretty hard to tell you how to make these maps by typing it out, so if there is any confusion, please comment and I’ll try my best to help. By the way, my apologies in advance for the fuzzy picture examples. I don’t have Photoshop to make them perfectly clear, so please accept my meager Paint/PowerPoint skills here in showing you how to make this wedding map.
Here’s the finished product first:

First, you want to open PowerPoint with a blank slide to work with. For making the map, you will be using the drawing tools, which is by default in the bottom part of the screen.
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