Online vs paper save the dates

We used the knot.com. We made a website for our wedding and send the link to everyone’s email. That way they could rsvp right on the site!

We did online save the dates for out of town guests. I did the free ones on paperless post and it worked great. You're able to track and see which guests have opened it which is nice. Paperless post has a number of free ones. Just don't add anything to it like an envelope and it'll stay free.

We did traditional paper invitations. I dunno...I like getting invitations in the mail. Feels more special I guess. We didn't do all the added things like info cards or RSVP cards though. Printed the info on the back on the invite, and we're doing online RSVPs, so we cut corners and saved money that way.

If you decide to do paper invites, get stamps from Costco.

We did online save the dates and paper invites. I didn't see a reason to spend the money to send out a notice that an invite will be coming.

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Anytime! All the best!!

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Okay, thanks so much for this advice! definitely helpful

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I did some creative work on the computer and send it out as a picture file. Nothing super-fancy or anything, just words over a photo.

Take a look at your guest list and the amount of couples or families. We did 1 save the date per family. So it saved us a ton of money. We also handed them out around Christmas time, so I really only had to mail out maybe 20 which really cut our costs.
If you do online, keep in mind the family members that are not tech savvy may still like a physical save the date.
Think outside the box. My cousin did a little piece of wood on a magnet that just had their initials and the wedding date. It was simple and cost effective for them!

I did paper save the dates, but I found this website that does online ones. It looks promising!

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Okay thank you. how did you do them over email though?

I would say it depends on how big your guest list is, and how close they are to you. We did most of our save-the-dates by phone and email but, for our older guests, we did printed ones. We hit a Vistaprint sale and had less than 10 to send out, so it wasn't too bad for cost. You could also print at home if you wanted to, if there are just a few guests that you think would need or prefer the printed ones.