Save the dates - send to all guests or just ceremony guests?

I only sent mine to guests invited to the ceremony. If I was sent a saved the date card, unless it explicitly note that I will be invited to the evening reception, I would without a shadow of doubt assume that I am invited to the day. Hence I would be disappointed.

So I advise to send them out to ceremony guests only or also send out 'Save the evening' cards to evening guests.

I'd say full day guests only.

I learnt the hard way!

Gave STD's to every guest as it's the school holidays and many of our friends have kids like ourselves and most people book holidays that time of year. OH was at work and one of the office girls ( who I'm friendly with) said 'oh I can't wait to see ( our daughter) in her dress walking down the aisle' my OH had to inform her she's an evening guest so she showed him the STD an he had to inform her that was to hold the date and not an invite.

Definatly learnt the hard way!

Deffo only send to the day guests for the reasons outlined above. If you've had them as an evening guest before - then that's not the norm and it can cause problems down the line. x

We didn't think twice about this and sent them to everyone. I'm worried now!! ?

As the others have said, you only send them to people who are invited to the wedding ceremony & wedding breakfast.

If you send them to evening guests they will expect a full wedding invite!

Most couples I deal with, tend to send save the dares to those who are invited to the whole day.

If you wanted to send them to evening guests also, I would send 'save the night' ones.

xx

Im going to do one for each diff type of guest. We have friends who talk to each other and family, so if one got a save the date and the other one didnt, they would assume they r not invited, which will upset them! Screw that everyone is getting one haha!

Save the night sounds a good idea. I'll have to see if we can get our type of cards as 'Save The Night' but I don't think they do them....

Those people who sent me save the dates for just the reception will get a 'save the date' though, because clearly they think that everyone should get one regardless and I don't want to offend them by thinking they're not invited!

Thanks for all the comments - guess my friend was right after all! (She will be pleased!)