Save the date cards

We did save the dates and we sent them out about 6 months before the wedding.

View quoted message We used PaperlessPost.com! They have some options that cost a fee but also lots of free options which we went with

We sent save the dates through paperlesspost.com. It cost under $20 to send it to about 80-90 e-mail addresses. We sent them 9 months before the wedding, because most of my guests are out of province. If they were all/mostly local, we wouldn't have sent out the save the dates.

We sent out digital save the dates in late august for our wedding in July. I know it was really early but over 80% of our guests will be coming from out of town (new brunswick, ontario, alberta, All over bc, vancouver island, Washington, etc) so we wanted to give people a lot of time to book flights/ vacation days etc. and its that time in our lives where soooo many people get married so i wanted to make sure our date was out there first so people dont double book.

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Dana what website did you use for this? If you don't mind me asking!

We sent out save the dates this month and get married in June. We will be sending out invites after christmas sometime as most of our guests are coming from out of town.

We sent out digital save the dates in February or so and then sent invitations in March-April.

We sent digital save the dates about a year before just to give people quite a bit of advance notice! Because they were digital they were free which was awesome and the website we used prompted people to respond to the save the date with their mailing address so it was also a great way to collect mailing addresses for when we send the formal invitations. Would highly recommend that!

View quoted message Whoops!It's mostly DFs family and unfortunately if we don't invite them it'll cause too much BS for me to handle.

View quoted message I wish I could cut the guest list. But its all family aside from our 5 closest friends. There are some family members we could cut, but we'd still be close to 80! It's mistly

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I can certainly help you with regard to keeping your wedding low cost. The first thing is to cut your guest list. We had 32 and they were immediate family and close friends. The only way to get the budget that low is to slash every item; dress, suit, décor, music, cake, invitations, thank you cards, etc. We saved enough on all these items that we could have an open bar.

View quoted message Oh my goodness! I'd love to know how you stayed that cheap 😂. I was saying to FH that we should for around $5,000. We're having about 100 guests, but I feel like that isn't super realistic for a wedding these days, especially with that many guests. I definitely don't want unnecessary extras though. I just have to start looking at prices. I plan on doing lots of DIY.

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I think that brides feel they have to do certain things that really aren't necessary. When did candy bars become a "must have"? How did photo booths and props become reception necessities? A bride can do whatever she likes but that's how weddings end up costing $10,000+ and many couples can't afford to get married. We got married 5 weeks ago and our entire wedding cost under $6,000. That made it manageable and everyone said it was amazing.

View quoted message That's kind of what I'm thinking. If I send the invitations out early enough it should be fine.

I sent out my invitations 6 months before the wedding. That gave people enough time to save the date anyway.

View quoted message Do you think someone could send them out too soon? I'm hoping to pick the date in the next couple weeks, but it probably won't be until April 2019.

We sent save the dates so people could book the time off if they needed to and to make sure they didn’t plan anything else for around that date. We sent ours out as soon as we had picked the date, which was 6 months notice.