Save the Date!!

There are so many reasons why couples should invest a bit of money and have save the dates sent out. Apart from the impersonal I’m “engaged” status on my Facebook (considering not everyone I know has a Facebook), it was a pleasant way to announce the engagement and upcoming wedding to friends and family. We sent our save the dates about seven to six months prior to the wedding. I felt it helped build anticipation for guests and it allowed guests to arrange this event into their calendar. Let’s face it, as a bride, you tend to live in this wedding bubble and you have to realize that everyone has lives outside of your wedding and some need plenty of notice. People like to travel and some make their plans months sometimes a year in advance. I have families that always go on yearly family trips. So it was important for me to give them plenty of notice because I wanted them present to celebrate with me on my wedding day.

I looked at plenty of invitation websites for inspiration and would have ordered through them but Jabi’s best man is an experienced graphic designer and he was able to create a beautiful layout for our save the date postcard. It was also a great way to save some money since he refused to take any payment for his work. (If you have skilled friends - ask them for help, you'll find most will be honored that you asked, but never ask for a free service, always offer to pay!) 

The front of the card has some of our engagement photos, the date of our wedding along with the city and state of where the wedding will be held. We signed up for a free wedding website through weddingchannel.com and added our URL at the bottom of the postcard. That way if people wanted more information they have an easy resource to check out. The back of the card, had a bilingual message in English and Spanish, just a heartfelt message announcing the wedding date and that we hoped they could join us as well as to look for a formal invitation in the upcoming months. 

At the end, our confirmed guest count was at 98%! (then we ended up with wedding crashers, but that's a whole other story.) 

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