Wedding Question

[lmurden]

How far in advance are you sending out your Save the Dates? My wedding is not until August 5, 2006 and I have about a dozen people coming from out of town so I was just wondering.

 

[ame]

You don''t really NEED to send them but I would say sometime around now is enough time. The "point" of them is to really give notice about a year out, right after an announced engagement.

I chose not to do them because i figured if you needed that much notice to remember, you''ve got problems. heh 6 weeks is plenty.

 

[MelissaSue]

I''m not doing them either. I just don''t see the point. And I feel like my friends and family would think I was nutty and/or stuck on myself if I was sending out notice of my wedding a year in advance. I''ve never received a save the date.
Everyone who I really want to attend, KNOWS when my wedding is. I do have people coming from out of town, but they are mostly family that I really could care less if they came or not, or IN the bridal party.. so they better be there!

 

[Tacori E-ring]

I am in the process of sending mine out. I sent most of them except my FI''s friends b/c he needs to get me addresses. My wedding is 8.12.06 so a week after yours. I sent them because at least 80% of the people are out of town guests and I wanted to make sure they had the hotel information in advance because people do like to plan trips before 6 weeks out (I do anyways) and the book rate expires a couple of weeks before the event so that only gives them a month to make their plans. I also sent them as a sort of an engagement announcement. Not all of my family have met my FI (scattered across the world really) and some have asked me to send a picture of us so it was kind of like killing two birds with one stone. We got a STD only once for a wedding in Charleston and I think they did it because EVERYONE (including the bride and groom) were from out of town. I am a detail person and I think they are nice.

 

[lmurden]

Thanks ladies. I am definitely sending STD, because I know some people may have vacation plans and others need time to make travel reservations.

 

[ivanadiamond]

I sent mine out the end of Febuary 2005 and my wedding was almost the same date as yours, this past August 6th, 2005. We had a lot of people coming from out of town and wanted to give people hotel info and plenty of time to plan to come... I think you are supposed to send them out 6-9 months in advance. But I think you can do it whenever you want really...I have almost always gotten a save the date to friends weddings and it always gets me excited for the persons wedding...I personally like them a lot

 

[lmurden]

I think STDs also let people know that the wedding plans are coming along.

 

[Tacori E-ring]

LM- I posted my STDs under Tybee''s thread. There are lots of other ideas in that thread if you aren''t sure what kind of STDs you want to send out.

 

[Tybee]

LMurden,
We''re working on ours now for our wedding in July (and by WE I mean my FI..poor guy.)

 

[FireGoddess]

I sent mine out 6-7 months in advance, considering the invitations were going to go out 2 months in advance.

 

[lmurden]

Date: 9/22/2005 2:26:33 PM
Author: Tacori E-ring
LM- I posted my STDs under Tybee''s thread. There are lots of other ideas in that thread if you aren''t sure what kind of STDs you want to send out.

Like you STDs. I will be using Myjeanm.com for my STDs and invitations. I guess I will send them out 9 months in advance and then my invitations 6 weeks before the wedding. Thanks again everybody.

 

[aphisiglovessae]

Because a lot of my guests live out of town, we decided to do pre-save-the-date cards. It didn''t really have much information other than the estimated month and estimated location, but it did say that we were planning to invite them and to start planning their next summer vacation with us in FL. We also had our website and blog addresses on there so they can keep up to date on the planning and stuff. At the bottom we stated: if you know for sure you won''t be able to make it, please let us know as soon as possible so that we can adjust our guest list. This helps with head counts and also gives us an opportunity to move B list people up to A list as room allows without waiting until the last minute. It was also a good way to let all of them know way in advance so that they can start saving money (none of our family members have a lot of money), and shopping for prices on flights and hotels. They were all very appreciative for it and as a result, we think more of them will show up than if we hadn''t sent these out. We''ll also send out the official save the date cards 6 months or so before the wedding with more detailed information, but we wanted to give them PLENTY of time to prepare and plan. It may possibly save them some money in the long run and it will help us with the guest list.

 

[aphisiglovessae]

Here''s a peek at what we sent out. We bought the cards (they came with envelopes and cute heart seals) and printed them out at home.

 

[glaucomflecken]

Our wedding is Oct 15th next month and I sent out save the date magnets at the end of April. My friends actually EXPECTED one, although I had never heard of it before I started wedding planning. Since we are doing a Scottish theme wedding we found magnets with tartan plaid and it kind of helped to "set the theme" of the wedding. And now I have a keepsake so for us it was worth it.