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Save the Dates | Wedding Invitations – What’s the difference?
 

A Save the Date Card tells your guest to do exactly that, reserve the date in their diary. While it does give some brief information about when and where your wedding will be held, the role of this card is to allow guests to plan ahead and also let them know that a more informative, formal invitation will be sent at a later date.

The information on your Save the Date Card includes the request (e.g. 'Please Save the Date'), your names, wedding date, location and a line of text to let them know they can expect a formal invitation. You can also include a wedding website URL if you have one.

As it gets closer to your wedding date, you’ll need to send out your actual wedding invitations. The role of the invitation is both to invite your guests and to give more detail about the event. Your invitation should formally invite friends and family to come to celebrate the marriage between you and your partner with invitational lines written from yourselves and / or your respective families. Your invitation should also include all of the information your guests need to attend. This includes the venue/s and date/time on the invitation card itself, along with any additional information you want to include in additional insert cards such as RSVP, details cards, map card etc.

When should you send a Save the Date Card?

 You will need to send some kind of official invitation to guests for your wedding. Save the Date Cards, however, are entirely optional. Generally, it is never too soon to send a Save the Date. Once you have finalised the important details, you can let your guests know. As a guide you want to send them out 6 - 12 months ahead of your wedding. For destination weddings, you may wish to allow a little longer.

By sending these cards, you’re letting people know to reserve that date in their calendar, so they don’t make other plans for that time. They can then also ask for time off work, confirm travel plans, save money and arrange childcare if needed. The timing for formal wedding invitations is much later, usually 2 to 3 months before the wedding.

 
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Weddings in the time of Covid-19
 

 

We’re now over three months in and I’ve watched the wedding dates of many of our couples come and go, after their plans have been cancelled, due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Months or years of anticipation and all the excitement of marrying your true love, now parked with little known of when new plans can be made.

 We’ve been contacted by couples who have decided to go ahead and set new dates, mostly choosing to postpone until summer 2021, by which time we hope, things will be back to normal. Change the date cards are a perfect means of communicating your new plans, if you had already sent out your wedding invitations.

Boris just gave the green light for weddings of up to 30 guests, so I conducted an Instagram poll to see how couples felt about this and followed up with some direct messages. Almost a 50/50 split down the middle - An allowance of 30 guests being welcome news for some, but not for others.

It is likely that we will see a trend in couples scaling back their plans and opting for more intimate events. Even before the outbreak, smaller weddings were growing in popularity, with couples choosing to surround themselves with just their closest loved ones. There are benefits of a smaller guest list - You can focus on creating an incredibly personal and unforgettable experience for you and your guests. What’s important to remember is that the size of your guest list doesn’t mean anything else needs to be small. You can go big on the dress, flowers, cake, stationery, food and venue if you so desire. There is something incredibly romantic about the idea of a ‘new normal’ micro wedding. I’ve been so touched by images on social media of couples who’ve found a way to marry their true love in lockdown and accessorising their wedding attire with a face mask.

For some, it’s just not workable to cull their guest list down to 30. When Adam I got married, the landscape of the event was severely off balance. I had very little family, whereas Adam coming from a large Catholic bunch had over 50 close family members, who you could say were non-negotiable. Regardless of our efforts to keep our wedding ‘intimate’ we ended up with over 140 attendees - None of whom we felt comfortable leaving out of the celebrations.

 We like you, are eagerly waiting for good news, a vaccine or miracle treatment. We’re hopeful that 2021 will be a bumper year for weddings and we can’t wait to get back to doing what we love most, creating special stationery for your wedding day.  

 

 

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Stationary...with stationery
 

Standing still, not moving. The dust has (literally) settled on our small shop, frozen in time since late March, a time when like many others around us we felt unsure of what the future would bring. But here we are, today, venturing back to wipe that dust clean off the shelves, and metaphorical cobwebs off ourselves. The last bit isn’t strictly true: yes, the shop has been shut and much of the work that comes with it has dried up, but we have been doing as beavers do, and beavered. New opportunities have sprung up for us to fill our time, mainly in the form of our new moonlighting career as home school teachers.

We have taken this time out to do those type of things normal circumstances don’t usually allow for. So, some fresh eyes on the website, the look and feel of it (‘we should write a blog!’), the customer experience and a complete overhaul of our wedding collection.

A constant thought would be what our business will look like when things return. Running the shop will be a struggle with social distancing guidelines, as it is so small. People rightfully like to browse around it unhurriedly, our paper products need touching, fanning, pens need trying out and we don’t really have the manpower to corral and enforce some of the guidance when we also need to attend to the not insignificant task of printing (and everything else). So, appointment only? Wait until the kids are back at school? Eek. For now, we sadly remain closed to the public, but we will review all the time (I mean this, we avidly, obsessively digest government daily briefings) and for the time being wish all our independent shop friends all the best if they are able to open now.

But we push on, and will continue to do so. There is more lovely stuff from our shop to buy online, if you are local we can probably deliver to you directly, we are excitedly talking to couples about their wedding planning for next year and beyond, and starting to get enquiries again for letterpress business card printing, personalised stationery, birth announcements, save the date cards, and plenty of ‘change’ the date cards too. The press is whirring and that’s our favourite sound of all. We are not standing still, we are moving. Not stationary, but back to stationery.

 
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