So you’ve set your wedding date and you’re ready to start knocking out projects, but hold off on save-the-dates and stationary until you’ve gotten a few important things squared away:
1. Lock In Your Wedding/Reception Venue. Many people have to change their date because they don’t put down their deposit and lock in their site soon enough, or they decide their date and can’t find an opening at a venue they’re happy with for that date. You don’t want to print your wedding date and have to reprint all of your save-the-dates. Save yourself the trouble of the 2nd string of save-the-dates and the explanations that go along with it, and don’t print your date on anything until it’s SET.
2. You’ve Checked With Important Parties. This is an odd one. Of course you don’t
need to pick a date that everyone approves of; but if there are people that you would be heartbroken to not have there (say, heartbroken enough to consider changing the date, like a parent or sibling), double-check with them before making your W-date official.
3. Your Guest List. Okay, so you don’t need to know your guest list before printing the save-the-dates, but you definitely need them before you address and send them. Why? Until you decide on the size of your wedding and exactly who will be invited, you won’t know who to send the save-the-dates to. You may have a general idea, but it’s extremely impolite to send anyone a save-the-date who may not make the cut of the guest list. Save yourself that awkwardness and wait!
So, before you make that date official and print it on anything, make sure these bases are covered, so you don’t have to go through the process of having to change your plans. It’s anticlimactic for your guests, and stressful for you. As much as you want to get things moving and get your save-the-date in the hand of your guests, get these things sorted out first so you don’t have to REdo it later.
