I finished designing our Save The Dates!

Ronni

Ronni

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Nashville TN
To save money, I decided I'd send them out as a postcard. Less postage, and zero cost for an envelope. Of course when the actual invitation goes out, there will be an envelope for the invite and an RSVP card and an envelope for that, as well. And I really want pretty invites, so the more I save on the Save The Dates, the more money will be left in the budget for an attractive Invitation.

They're ready for me to order. I have plenty of time (typically they go out 4 - 6 months before the wedding) so I'm waiting for the site to run one of their 50% off sales, which they do every month or two.

Front side:
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Back side with room to write the address and for a stamp:
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I haven't published the website, I'm still designing it, so if you go to it you won't see anything yet. But I'll let y'all know when I've finished the design and it's published so you can see it if you want.
 

Reading this thread brings back memories of numerous women planning their weddings. I'm a guy. Guys don't dream of wearing French cuffs on their tuxes, at their wedding, since they were little boys. Girls have these wedding dreams. I get love and wanting to be together, but I never got the dream of the perfect wedding. I know a perfect wedding is an immensely important thing to a bride. Most women have been planning their wedding since they were 9. To be honest, I think most grooms would be happy with a keg of beer and the park. Like I said I'm a guy. I hope Ronni has the wedding of her dreams, and lives happily thereafter.
 
Mrs. L and I felt like gatecrashers at our own wedding. Our parents exerted undue pressure over the guest list and I flt like apologising for spoiling their party.

Last year our neighbours daughter got married, and I believe that while she wanted a simple affair, he had other ideas. Part of the pre-wedding celebrations was on TV and the wedding itself was rugby themed. Not sure about the women, but the men all wore kilts and rugby shirts. The meal was provided from a fish&chip van, and an ice cream van.

None of my children seem like the marrying kind, but should they decide to, I hope they do it quietly and then just get on with life. After 46 years with a wonderful girl, I don't think I'll be doing it again, but I wish I'd just had the simplest of ceremonies all those years ago.
 
Save the Dates are a fairly recent thing. They're now considered pretty standard for a wedding. They're typically send out 6 - 8 months before the actual Wedding date.

As people have become more widely connected, spread across the country as many families and friends are but staying in touch due to the social media and the internet, the need to give guests even more notice about a wedding date has become part of the New Normal.

We have dozens of friends and relatives on our guest list who are from out or town...as far flung as from California to Florida, to Upstate New York. The Save The Dates give them a nice long window of time to determine their budget, book time off, arrange travel plans, rather than receiving an invitation just a few weeks before the wedding (Emily Post suggests 3 - 4 weeks) and then having to scramble, or being unable to attend entirely because the notice was too short. And typically there's just not enough information 6 - 8 months before the happy day to send out an official invitation. At that point, you might only know the date and nothing else. So you can't announce Names of the hosts. Attire Details. An RSVP Deadline. Your Wedding Website Address. The Reception Location. Your Return Address. Etc...All the things that go on an Invitation.
 
Ronni said:
To save money, I decided I'd send them out as a postcard. Less postage, and zero cost for an envelope. Of course when the actual invitation goes out, there will be an envelope for the invite and an RSVP card and an envelope for that, as well. And I really want pretty invites, so the more I save on the Save The Dates, the more money will be left in the budget for an attractive Invitation.

They're ready for me to order. I have plenty of time (typically they go out 4 - 6 months before the wedding) so I'm waiting for the site to run one of their 50% off sales, which they do every month or two.

Front side:
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Back side with room to write the address and for a stamp:
View attachment 91376

I haven't published the website, I'm still designing it, so if you go to it you won't see anything yet. But I'll let y'all know when I've finished the design and it's published so you can see it if you want.
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Those are very nice. I love your hair color, very pretty!😉
 
Shakes head in disbelief... Oh how things have changed. I've known a few couples who decided a date on the spur of the moment, grabbed a couple of strangers outside the registry office to act as witnesses, got married and bought the strangers a drink. They had very happy marriages.

We bought a new build house before we got married, and set the date depending on the
completion date (plus time to decorate & furnish). That was probably about 2 months max. but it was enough time to arrange things with the minister and book the reception venue.
The only slight glitch was that my friend who was to be 'best man' was going on tour with his band and couldn't make the date.

All the guests lived locally and they just found out by word of mouth, and of course this was before the days of the internet.

But anyway, I wish you all the best for a very happy marriage.
 

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