Thank you all for your help and advice in the past! I really appreciate all of your time and expertise.
I have used the search feature and have been trying for the last hour and a half to find where you may have answered this question before, but I'm not finding it. I apologize if you have answered this for someone else before!
My fiance and I getting married in mid-June and we are paying for a lot of the wedding ourselves (my parents have also generously offered to help), but I'm trying to cut down on costs where I can. Are Save the Date cards a necessity? It seems like this is a relatively new thing that I've only noticed the last few years.
While we are not having a destination wedding, all of my fiance's family lives out of state and we also have several friends who also live out of state. Is it appropriate to only mail invitations 8 weeks prior to the wedding date (i.e. no Save the Date card), or should we mail invitations earlier for those who may need to make travel arrangements? Or do we need to suck it up and also get Save the Date cards?
Thank you for your help!
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Re: Is it necessary to send save the date cards?
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Dear Kelmgriff,
Save the dates are not necessary. Send your invitations 2 months before the wedding and don't worry. You could notify out of state guests verbally or by email about the wedding. We share all of this information informally all the time anyway.
Is it necessary to send save the date cards?
