Giving out save the dates at engagement party?

If you're going to announce the date, why do you need Save The Date cards? Aren't these just a way of announcing the date from a distance?

You also need to be careful about telling everyone the date and giving them a save the date - what if everyone assumes they are day guests?

I would normally recommend sending different save the dates and save the evenings if someone was to post them out so you might need to think about that.

We had stamp save the dates and decided to send them in christmas cards as were getting married in December just after Xmas. We sent ours very early but everyone was really chuffed to have the luggage tag fall out their cards :-)

Ps we got ours from not on the high street but I would recommend getting the tags from a craft shop as they were quite expensive off the supplier we used!

I guess i was thinking its something they can take away and keep somewhere to remind them?

Yes, they will put it in a pocket, or a drawer and forget they had it!

If you are doing an announcement at the engagement party, make a big thing of it by saying "right everyone, take out your phones and put this date in your diary....set yourself an alarm so you don't forget it.....and get your glad rags ready to party with us on.......at.........!"

or something.

Good point about the day/evening thing. I wouldn't want someone to get excited, then find they're only an evening guest.

& i love the idea of getting everyone to put it in their phones!!

We gave our save the dates out at our engagement party. However we only had a small get together, and all the people that were there are going to be invited as day guests.