Save the Dates

The main purpose of a Save the Date card is to notify your friends and family of your upcoming wedding date. A Save the Date card can supply your guests with the date and location of your wedding before you have finalised all the other finer details, such as the church or reception time etc. It will give your guests the time they need to book accommodation, make travel arrangements, organise time off work and hopefully ensures they will not double book with another event.

Wedding invitations are generally sent out 6-8 weeks prior to your wedding date, which may not be enough time for guests to organise these things. Save the Date cards are generally sent out 3 months to a year prior to your wedding date or even more in advance if you think it is necessary.

Save the Date cards are useful for weddings that have a lot of out of town guests, destination weddings where all guests will need to make accommodation and travel arrangements, weddings that fall in or near busy periods of the year like Easter, Christmas, school holidays, long weekends or weddings that will run over a period of a few days.

Save the Date Wording

As a Save the Date is not a formal invitation so you do not have to include a lot of information and you can choose to word them how ever you would like. The most important information to include is your wedding date and your names, and often the location where the wedding is.

The wording can be as simple as:
Please save the date
We will be getting married on
12th January 2010
Rarotonga, Cook Islands
Formal invitation to follow
Sarah and John


Or you might like to have a fun verse like:

Our day is fast approaching,
And we can hardly wait,
We hope that you can join us.
Be sure to save the date!
Mia and Geoff
Will be married on
May 5th, 2010
Invitation to follow