Save the date questions & flash request

I'm having these ones http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/370531814497?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1439.l2649#ht_959wt_1037

I'm sending them next week, I get married 25/8/12

We did ours as e-mails so no flashes I'm afraid, but ours went out just over 6 months in advance. We did it as soon as we had the venues and registrar finalised - if we'd done that sooner we'd have sent them out earlier!

Our registar and venue is all confirmed but we have just under 2 years to go. But my issue is it could potentially be the first Saturday of the summer hols (20th July 2013), and as almost everyone is going to be travelling, I want to leave plenty of time for people to save and book etc. So any suggestions for roughly when to send would be good!

Ooooh what a great idea to have magnet cards! 👍 I love them!

We sent ours in December-10 (with our Christmas cards) for our wedding in June-11. Invitations we sent in April-11. Our wedding was during half-term so we wanted to warn people to book accommodation.

We got about 50 from vistaprint for less than £20 - flash for you..

Hi

we sent ours out about 11 months in advance, hope the flash works

xx

We're not sending out any STDs.

We're getting married abroad and have discussed it with our nearest and dearest verbally and they all know we're looking at end April/early May 2013. We have approximately 17 definites and a few more possibles so what we're doing is still trying to arrange the logistics of the ceremony/villa or hotel/paperwork/flights etc etc. Once we've done that we'll just send out proper day invites.

I am loving the calender STDs!

These were ours:

We sent them in June 2010 (as soon as we'd confirmed the date and got them made) for our August '11 wedding.

I think I would probably wait until the 18month mark to send them if I am honest - I didn't think you could book holidays more than 12months in advance anyway (?) so that shouldn't be a problem and you don't want to send them so early that it's put in a drawer and forgotten about by the time your wedding comes round as that could defeat the object altogether.

I also love the STD magnets - we sent something simular with our wedding invites, so that when they accepted they could put the magnet up and not forget they were coming!

I know this is also really common sense, but i'd be careful about who you send them to so far in advance - in the 10 months between our STDs and invites going out our list had changed somewhat.

What wording did you have in/on yours everyone?

We sent ours a year in advance so in September 2010 for our wedding thats 6 days away!

ours were from Ebay and about £15 for 70 of them! They are fridge magnets you see.

We sent them out a year before. To give people to book the time of work, family and friends from abroad have then had time to find flights and book travel details. Havent got a flash unfortunately

EWSS - despite finalising a date in the last few weeks (April 2013) we won't be sending out STDs until Summer next year...we are ready to, but trying not to let on to anyone that I am completely obsessed with my wedding with 18 months still to go...

We sent ours so they landed on doorsteps exactly a year to go which people loved.

here's a cheeky flash (sorry if it's huge 1st time if flashed anything on here )

Ooh forgot to say - we made them into magnets!

These

Nat

We get married in April 2012 and have put our save the dates out but we dont have to worry bout too much folk as only having fourteen lol. We got really cute magnets from zazzle. They are ace. Sorry havent even attempted flashes yet but will learn one day lol.

Hi,

We sent ours 11 months in advance due to the fact that we are getting married 2 days before Christmas and wanted to make sure people had enough warning.

Here our Save the Date cards:

For close family and friends we also did VistaPrint magnet A6 save the dates:

We sent ours in may for our july next year wedding as its during the olympics and summer hols

Heres ours:

we took the photo ourselves, put the writing etc on using my iphone and got them printed using moo.com.

Just sent last weekend, via email (the environmentally friendly way) to everyone who has email, snail mail/hand delivery
for the 3 guests who don't know what the internet is...

We sent ours out in May for our June 2012 wedding, we are getting married on a Monday in term time- so we wanted to let people know as soon as possible.

No flashes (mine were fridge magnets from vistaprint)

I gave mine out with Christmas cards though (save on postage) so approx 10months before wedding.

I think a year before is good especially if you are inviting people with children who may be booking their summer hols a year in advance to take advantage of early booking discounts (I know this is what my friend does)

Maybe send them out with this years Christmas Cards? I think fridge magnets are a great idea as I have seen mine on a few people's fridges now as I think card invites tend to be filed/misplaced!? (btw these people have all misplaced their invite!)

STD is an acronym too far ?

I sent mine just under a year before, end of sept i sent them and we got married august following year

Here is our STD's, they're magnets. We're putting them in with Christmas Cards this year, which is giving folks a years notice, since it's only a few days before Xmas and we have family overseas that need lots of notice. These were made on good old Vista Print, I'm gonna bling them up a wee bit so have bought some diamante gems to attach to the snowflakes. The pic was taken minutes after we got engaged last Nov.

We sent them exactly one year in advance. Ours were this design:

/save-the-dates/hearts-and-polka-dots-free-printable-save-the-date

We printed them at Vistaprint, we got a hundred and just paid p&p. We have about 40 left but they were a bargain.

We sent ours a year in advance as that was pretty much as soon as we got engaged and confirmed the church and venue. My SIL designs these sort of things so did mine for free but I printed them on Vista Print as when you first join you got 40 free prints which was perfect as I needed 45 haha!

Hope this flash works??