My fiancee and I have been planning our destination wedding for almost two years! We are finally at the point where we have a guest list. We are quite aware that a number of people on the list will be unable to attend for many reasons, however we still want them to know that they are invited.
Our plan was to put together a massive group email with some estimated details of the wedding (location, date, costs, etc.) and have people reply as to whether or not they can/would like to attend. Our next step from there would be sending out official invites with confirmed date, location, prices, etc. We are not sending out save the dates.
Is this acceptable? We are on an extremely tight budget and we also want to conserve as much as we can when it comes to things like invites.
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Re: Emailing details for destination wedding
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Dear Staticjive,
The email you are suggesting would be like save the date cards. We don't ask for confirmations before sending invitations. So, you could send emails, but it is not best to ask for a reply. Allow your guests to decide on their own and in their own time if they can attend.
The email will be acceptable only if your wedding is very informal. It wouldn't be appropriate if it is formal. And, a group email might seem like an e-vite, which shouldn't be used for more formal events--even informal wedding are considered more formal than birthday parties. So, it would be better to send individual emails. Of course, you could always create a wedding website with all of your wedding info and send an email to everyone announcing it. Just hide the registry info.
Emailing details for destination wedding
