Save the Date Cards
A Quick Look at Save the Date Cards
When planning a wedding, there is a lot of wedding stationery, wedding invitations, wedding announcements, and other items that you need to send out. Save the date cards are one important piece to make sure you have, especially when you are just beginning your wedding planning. Whether you are sending postcards, save the date magnets, or online wedding invitations, you’ll find lots of cheap wedding invitations available and a wedding invitation design that works for you.
Save the date cards are not always necessary and do not always need to be sent, but they can be a good idea in many situations. They are especially important for anyone planning a destination wedding, a wedding on a holiday weekend, or anyone that expects a lot of out of town guests. For a destination wedding, although there may not be a lot of people invited, those people need to know as soon as possible your location and date so they can make hotel arrangements and airfare. The same goes for any guests that are traveling to your area from out of town, so if you have a lot of friends and family on the other side of the country, you want to make sure you send them save the dates. Holiday weekends are a time when a lot of people make travel plans, so make sure they know about your wedding in advance so they don’t make any other plans that weekend.
You only need to put basic information on your save the date cards, since a full affordable wedding invitation will follow in the future. This basic information includes the couple’s names, the date of the wedding, and the location of the wedding. You do not need anything else, though many couples put their wedding website on and also add a phrase such as “formal invitation to follow.”
The design for your save the date card can be creative, but in general it should match the general theme of your wedding and the invitations you plan to send out later. Start looking at discount wedding invitations online so you have a good idea of what style you are going for. If possible, to create a truly uniform and elegant look you could even use the same wedding invitation paper as what you plan to use for your invitations.
