Save-the-Date E-Cards
With less than 9 months to go, I’ve finally started preparing for our wedding (again). The wedding website have been designed during summer and will be launched shortly. I still have to get my brother to show me how to add the RSVP section. Since I’m trying to make sure there will be no surprise guests showing up, I’ll have all the guests pre-filled in my database and the number for people these guests can bring with them. It’s a little complicated to explain right now so once I get it working I’ll post again.
Originally I don’t plan on sending any Save-the-Date cards because majority of the guests are local and I have already given the date of our wedding to all my out of town relatives. However, I feel it would be a good idea to “officially” remind my guests about the wedding date, especially those from out of town, so they can start booking their vacation days and plan for next year.
To cut down cost, plus to be green, I’ve opted to use E-cards for Save-the-Date notifications. My plan right now is to use MailChimp, an email service provider, to send out a nice looking HTML formatted email. It would be nice if the guests can tell me whether or not they are thinking of attending (this way I can get a better estimate on the total number of expected guests), so I’m in the process of coming up with a “early-bird” RSVP form. It’s early-bird because the official invitation won’t be going out until next Spring.
The only difficult part about sending out Save-the-Date E-Cards is the fact that some of my relatives don’t use emails, or I don’t have their email address. So a bit of extra work for me would be to call them up, notify them by phone, and then email them the E-Card. And for those that don’t use or don’t have emails, do you think I should make a Save-the-Date card for them or do you think telling them over the phone would suffice?
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Just like you, I’ve sent my save the dates out through email (used one of my engagement photos and photoshopped the wedding date onto it). I had family members forward it to those who I didn’t have the emails to, and eventually it got around to everyone (even those who didn’t have email). If you want to be safe, just have your parents call some of your relatives to confirm they know about the date, that’s what my parents did. Good luck.