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Kelly
Dedicated October 2022

Save the dates and etiquette

Kelly, on March 31, 2022 at 8:42 PM

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Hello all: I wanted to see what others are doing as far as save the dates. My understanding is that they do not have to match your invitations in color or theme or in any way at all, and can be pretty light hearted and casual. So we’re gonna do something fun and different from our lovely floral...

Hello all: I wanted to see what others are doing as far as save the dates. My understanding is that they do not have to match your invitations in color or theme or in any way at all, and can be pretty light hearted and casual. So we’re gonna do something fun and different from our lovely floral invitations.. My question is when you send your save the date card, I’m reading that in that envelope, you should put an enclosure card to notify people if the wedding/reception is adults only as well as information or an enclosure card about accommodations. Is that the case ?

Do you send that with the save the date card instead of waiting until you send the invites since that doesn’t give people much notice of the situation? And would you send it again when you send the invitation? There isn’t room to put it on the save the date card so do you order enclosure cards?

I am also reading that when you use enclosure cards, they should match invitations which would make no sense if my save the dates don’t match my invitations. This is all just information I’m reading online, so I guess I can always do what I want , but I just want it to look nice and I kind of like to do things the proper way so would love advice. I think it’s very important for me to make sure that the people I am inviting are very aware that children cannot come and I feel like that information should be given very early on versus waiting until invites go out.


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  • Gillian
    Devoted July 2021
    Gillian ·
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    Save the dates are normally just the people, location, and date. We put our wedding website on ours just so that people could start to browse our registries and accommodations near the location early since were asking many to travel.


    I would personally save the extra cards for your formal invitations.
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  • Kelly
    Dedicated October 2022
    Kelly ·
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    Thank you Gillian. Did you hand address your save the dates and if so did you do it in cursive? I have horrible writing.
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  • Gillian
    Devoted July 2021
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    I chose to handwrite the addresses because I didn’t want to pay for pre-addressed envelopes. That being said, my handwriting is pretty good. I did not write in cursive though.
    I did order a $12 return address stamp for formal invitations because my hand started to cramp a lot from all the writing.
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