Save the date cards

Don't have any recommendations for suppliers as I made my own (but there will be lots of people who can help on here!).

In terms of the content on the STD, mine was very basic. It just held our names, the date we were to be married (and time) and then the venue location with 'formal invitation to follow'.

On the invitation, we then put a little more information, and linked it over to our wedding website- which then had hotel lists and venue information (menus, etc) plus the RSVP function.

I would think about sending your STD's out soon - I sent mind a year before (ish) and then my invites went out at the end of April - we get married in a week.

I designed my own so not sure on suppliers, but check out etsy. You can get anything on there haha

We only sent ours to the day guests - it was just easier! They're the most important so they 'need' to know the date as they'd need the whole day free, if that makes sense?

Ours had "Stephisaur and A are getting married!" With the date on the front. On the back was some local hotel information. We forgot to put "invitation to follow" on ours so remember that!

Hope this helps?

xx

We have had save the dates & save the evenings made up. We were planning on having them made up on vistaprint but then found someone on Facebook who could make exactly what we were after. We only put our names where & when also wrote invite to follow. Xx

I don't think you need to put much information on a save the date, as it is literally just a heads up for guests to keep the date free. Ours said our names and "save the date -/-/--" With formal invitation to follow. I wouldn't have thought you would need hotel info etc just yet, assuming you are going to send out your invitations in good time. We got ours off eBay and were really pleased with them despite not costing much.

You don't need to put any information really on save the dates other than the date and location if it will mean people will have to travel. All the other information like times and venue etc... goes on the invitation. I wouldn't send hotel information out either until you send the invitations out.

It may be worth sending out seperate ones for the evening guests, like you say some people may assume they are going to the ceremony too!

Our save the dates were really simple and just had the date on. There are a few people we aren't sure if we will invite in the end or will only invite to the evening bit. So we have only given save the dates to those we are definitely inviting to the day.

We sent ours out a year in advance to day guests only. It had an image from our engagement shoot on the front in which we were holding a sign saying save the date 26-12-16. On the back it had information on the church venue and reception venue as well as some hotel info. We included more information as a lot of people are travelling from far away and as its so close to Christmas travel and staying over is more difficult.

we just used vista print

I ordered ours from Vistaprint and they were really good. We only had the name of the town where we are getting married, the date and our names. Sent them exactly a year in advance. OH thinks I'm sending them too early but I want people to have a much notice as possible (I've got a lot of forgetful friends!)

We did save the dates and save the evenings to save confusion and we just put date, church and reception venue on ours. As we are getting married about 2 1/1 hours away from where majority of friends and family live, we sent out invites fairly early to give them chance to book accommodation so we put all of those types of details on the invite instead

We sent ours out about 18 months in advance. I ordered fridge magnets from Vista Print so that people can display them and they won't get lost. We have only sent them to definite day guests. The evening guests and the maybe guests haven't been sent them. We just put "save the date for the wedding of ------- and ------- on 01/07/2017 at 2pm at ----------. Formal invitation to follow". If you have the venue address on there, people can always google it and book nearby accommodation x

Hi,

I've recently come across a really good company who have a good range of vintage stationery - http://www.daisychaininvites.co.uk/

Hope this helps!

Claire