Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie
Hi there,
There is an issue with role permissions that is being worked on at the moment.
If you are having trouble with access or permissions on regional forums please post here to get access: https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058365403/you-do-not-have-permission-for-that#latest

Save the date - what info to include?

  • 31-03-2018 10:32am
    #1
    love_love
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 208 ✭✭


    Hopefully a very quick question! Our date is just under a year away and we are going to send out electronic save the dates. With friends abroad, very big family, and friends in industries where their schedule gets full far in advance, we want to make it clear to everyone that the date is set in stone and they're invited.

    I have done up a really cute electronic thing with the date and location (area rather than exact venue) but I'm wondering if there is any other info that should be included, even as separate text with the image we're sending? From experience, are there one or two common questions that people often come back with? The main thing I would query if I was at the other end would be accommodation - there will defo be enough on site for everyone to stay so there's no rush for anyone to book. Should I include a little note referencing that? Advice appreciated!


Comments

  • #2
    pooch90
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,406 ✭✭✭pooch90


    I wouldn't really bother saying anymore. It's just a save the date. I'd probably put in a line saying 'formal invitation to follow' as a lot of the older generation might not be familiar with STD vs Invite.


  • #3
    jenjoeful
    Closed Accounts Posts: 96 ✭✭jenjoeful


    I've been wondering the same thing. i mentioned to someone we were sending them and they were horrified/rude!
    Anyways, in ours, we are saying
    Save the date, the actual date, our names, the venue, website URL, and finished with 'formal invite to follow'.

    We're doing a website for reasons such as accommodation details, location, information about the day, a request to not put any photos on social media, as a mechanism for RSVPing.. etc... 
    How soon do you send them out?


  • #4
    love_love
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 208 ✭✭love_love


    We got around to sending ours out a week or so ago. There ended up not really being any questions back, except for a few people asking how many nights they should stay etc. Our date is the end of March next year, I wanted to wait until there was less than a year to go but not too much less!

    It turns out I had slightly misunderstood our accommodation situation so we advised a handful of people of the location in order to get preferential rates (wedding party members and friends travelling from abroad) and are leaving it up to them to book their rooms. Everything else is first come first serve.

    The main question, as I said, was how many nights we're staying - we don't have the money to do anything formal on the Sunday, and I wouldn't want to have anything structured on the Sunday anyway (nothing wrong with it, I just don't want to be the centre of attention two days running!), but we might still decide to stay depending on when we book our honeymoon for so the most common answer we're giving at this point in time is "I don't know"!


Advertisement