Save the dates - are you sending them?

Our wedding is 4 may 2014. We are sending emails/texts or calling on 4 may 2013 to let people know!

We will be, we're planning to send them out at Christmas (2014) with the wedding the following September.

This is largely because we're not inviting any children and want to give people as much notice as possible to sort out things like baby sitters (if they want to)

We're going to include the URL for our wedding website too, giving information about local hotels in case any one wants to stop over.

I suppose we're also using them as a way to find out rough numbers. We think the no kids thing wont go down well with some family members so want a more concrete idea of who definitely wont be coming. Hopefully this will give us more flexibility with our numbers, leaving us enough time to either scale things back, or invite others if we want to.

We did them, primarlily because our wedding is on a weekday and we wanted to give people as much notice as possible so they could arrange time off work.

Nope, having 45 guests for the day and have already said to them all when ive seen them or given them a text.

if your having guests from far away or aboard i would send them one.

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Were sending our out as soon as we can agree on matching stationary....... Were sending out asap for Feb 2014........... As above were not having Children so wanting the family to sort out baby sitters ect and my partners family live quite far away so lots of advance warning for Hotels ect....

I was thinking of just calling / emailing people etc to save costs on the stationary - if you have anyone abroad you can do the same with them, your close friends and family will know the date anyway and no doubt pencilled it in due to all the excitement - if you have to cut costs I'd say don't bother but if you have a big budget then go for it

We are getting married on 7th September 2013 and sent out Save The Dates in January. We largely decided to send them as our venue is in the middle of nowhere and you can currently get cheap Travelodge rooms nearby, so wanted people to be able to book rooms if they want too.

Our wedding is early July, we sent them out first week of January (when everyone was feeling blue about going back to work/school!).

We did Vistaprint postcards with a pic of us on it, and I got personalised stamps with 'Love' on it and a pic of us kissing, and everyone LOVED the personal touch.

We sent to family and first choice guests only. Really just to give them notice for booking time off or not to book holidays etc, but because it was during term-time we knew most wouldn't be going away at that time.

We have sent them as my family are from Scotland but we also have relatives comin form Australia and the US so wanted to give as much notice as possible. We sent fridge magnets so they don't match our stationary but we could do them as soon as we had the church booked. I wanted people to be aware also asI have a few teacher/nurse friends who need more notice for holidays (it's in half term). Also I don't see all my friends/family that often as we are so far apart so I wanted them to have the date written down. If there are people you are umming about inviting could you just send the STDs to family and friends who you definitely want there.

Firstly ,....." might not WANT to attend when the time comes" ?????? not be able to plan that far ahead I can understand but if the don't want to attend well..........and the save the date is make people aware of the date not for people to confirm to you if they will actually be attending.

We sent our save the dates out 12/11 months prior to the date, we only sent them as our wedding is at a time when many people we know might be looking to book holidays and also to make them aware of the accommodation etc.

Oops sorry - i meant we might not want them to attend! haha. Obviously family member and core friends won't but other might drift away!

I'm getting married in July i'm a bit worried about holidays and thing

I was thinking of sending them out 2 years to the date after our engagement - but that would mean it would only be a few weeks after my brothers wedding and feel that might be stealing his thunder?

So I thought about maybe the September instead but that only leaves 10 months? What do you think?

Ooh good thread, i was just thinking of this myself. We get married in September 2014.

I didn't send save the dates. I just sent my invitations about 6 months before.

We've done personalised photo save the dates and stuck little magnets on the back so our guests can pop them straight onto their fridges . We've started to give them out to immidiate family and will give them out to our other guests in the next month or two as we get married 2nd May 2014 !! i would say do save the dates but if theres anyone your not sure about skip them and give them one closer to the time.