WWYD Save the Date

I didn't send them as I thought telling people I see often was enough. I just said wedding is on 1st October and they said great ! I didn't specify evening or day. If you see these people every day just tell them the date maybe ?

I didnt send them out either.

I've only ever recieved an Save the Date when I've been invited to the full day, never as an evening guest.

Could you set up a wedding website and send everyone the URL?

We made our own, we sent save the day to our all day guests , and keep your evening free to our evening guests

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I recently received a save the date card for a wedding, however we were only invited to the evening and i must admit it did confuse me a little as it didn't specify evening only and i wasn't sure whether to book the whole day off from work or not

That's a really good idea for the evening cos if I got a normal save the date I'd probably be expecting a full-day invite.

I think that's a really good idea from LoveSka. I have sent out our save the date magnets for the day which is only for family and very close friends. But a not so close friend spotted the magnet on MOHs fridge and was asking questions. Think I will now have some Keep Your Evening Free cards printed to hand out to other friends to avoid further confusion.

If I received a save the date I'd assume it would be for the whole day unless it clearly stated that it wasn't.

We bought A4 magnetic paper (really cheap off ebay) and printed our Save the day/evening on to that, , ,, , really cheap way of making fridge magnets

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We sent them to all guests as it is a summer wedding and wanted everyone to be aware in case it had any impact on booking holidays/whinging to us they had booked holidays and not known. However it is a Sunday and I think every single person we know to invite would be off work anyway so didn't feel the need to specify. This is in case we end up moving some of our B list up to A list and avoids any awkwardness about people knowing they receieved an evening STD but then a daytime invite!

You could just send the invitations earlier and not bother with save the dates?

We had a 9 month engagement and booked the wedding around 8 months. The venue was in a completely different town to where we now live, or where either of us are from so everyone had to travel. We had the same thought that people might want to book things in advance so I didn't see the point of "unofficially" telling them the details of the wedding so they could book up and then sending a "formal invitation" a few months before as a formality.

We sent our invitation out around 6 months before.

We did this too - in pink for the day and the same design in green for the evening so that we didn't mix them up. We wanted to send them out because we're getting married on a Friday and didn't want people to book the day off work not realising they're only invited for the evening. Also, I work in the school and lots of my evening guests would have booked their summer holidays around this time if they didn't have plenty of notice. Some aren't coming because they're going on holiday anyway, but all the people I really want there (and who want to be there) kept the day/evening free. x