VANBRUUN guide
Save the date & wedding invitations
What is the difference between a Save The Date card and a wedding invitation?
Once you have decided the time and place where the wedding is to take place, it is time to send out the invitations. The further in advance you can be the better when fewer people have time to make up something else. However, weddings are such an event that should be prioritized before anything else for those who are invited, but it is not certain that your guests think the same.
Save The Date
It is common to send Save The Date cards, which means that you send out an invitation in good time before sending out the real invitation. A Save The Date card only needs to contain information that you are going to get married and when so that the invited person will plan this date in their calendar. This is especially a good idea if you plan to hold a wedding during times when people are usually booked, for example during holiday weeks in the summer.
Photograph by Cinzia Bruschini, invitation designed by Elins art studio via Aveni Events
Wedding Invitations
If you send out Save The Date cards, we usually recommend sending them a nine months to a year before the wedding takes place. Then you can send out the real invitation with all the information about four to six months before the wedding takes place. Ask the guests to R.S.V.P no later than 1-2 months before the wedding so that you have plenty of time to change things. Keep in mind that there are always some guests who forget to R.S.V.P, so do not order anything that cannot be changed the day after the deadline expires.
The invitation should be short, personal and relatively formal in order for the guests to feel informed about what applies. This means that you avoid unnecessary issues and that guests avoid uncertainty in, for example, clothing choices. One tip may be to try to reflect the wedding invitation according to the style you have chosen for the wedding, for example classic, medieval or whatever you choose.
Photograph by Linda Pauline, invitation designed by Elins art studio via Aveni Events
We suggest that your invitation includes the following
Your name
Location, time & date
Place, time & date for any party, lunch or other gathering.
Any road description or other description about overnight accommodation if this is required.
Information about the wedding hosts
Dress code. Never forget to write about this and most important, do not write something that is difficult to interpret, such as “summer party” or “dress fine”. A dress code is written to make it easier for people to choose what to wear. And if you write “dress fine” this can vary a lot from different people’s points of view. Read our thoughts on the topic dresscode here.
R.S.V.P date. A final date for the guests to tell the couple if they will attend or not.
Inspiration
Photograph by Linda Pauline and Cinzia Bruschini, invitation designed by Elins art studio via Aveni Events