If you are planning a wedding in a destination location like Puerto Rico, sending Save the Date postcards well ahead of the event can make a huge difference in helping those you want to attend be able to make their plans.

Here is an example of a wedding in Puerto Rico Save the Date card:

back side details

Many send their save the date cards 6 months before their event.  For a destination wedding you can send your cards even earlier.

We can help you quickly put together a design for your card so you can send them out right away.

It is easy to get started.  Just submit the form on our Begin Design page.

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I thought this Save the Date card had a great title to go with the photo.

What fun!

The photo you choose for your Save the Date should represents something which is important to you.   In this case, I guess having a great time fishing expressed something important for their Save the Date.

backside

I say, why not ?

With our service you can do it your way.

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All it takes to have a nice Save the Date card is a good photo showing your smiling faces.

Here is another Save the Date photo postcard where the photo expresses the joy through smiling faces and the back of the card gives the details about the plans they are smiling about.

Smiling faces:

Details on plans:

One of the things to look at on the photo you chose is whether your faces are too close to the edge of the photo.   If an important part of the photo is too close to a photo edge, it can be cropped a little when processing your cards.   When we have this type of concern, we usually put the photo in a frame to keep the important parts away from the card edge.

We take care of these types of issues for you and make it easy to make a custom Save the Date postcard, just check out the above tab labeled “Begin Design”.

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Your save the date cards will create the first impression regarding the style of your wedding. You will want your cards to reflect your personality and theme of your wedding plans. Save the date cards for weddings do not require exceptionally formal wording. On the front most just use a Save the Date title alone, or a Save the Date heading accompanied with the date. Then on the back or inside of the card they give greater details that answers questions like:

– What is it for ?
– Who is it for ?
– When is it for ?
– Where is it happening ?

If you remember the primary reason a Save-the-Date card is needed is to give those people you want to invite to your matrimony an early announcement of your plans so they can have as much time as achievable to make arrangements to attend. It is a proper way for you to announce your engagement and establish your time frame.

If after meeting those primary reasons you still have room on the card for more information and you want to put more, then you might add:

1. An RSVP request with phone number or email.
2. A web site URL with more details about your wedding.
3. Some poetry sentiment that you like.
4. Let them know another formal invitation will be coming.

Here are a few samples of what some folks have put on their Save the Date cards:

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Save the Date
Nancy and Jared
to be wed
Sunday
080606
Pasadena, California
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Please Reserve the Date of
December 27, 2008
Madison, WI
To celebrate the marriage of
Michael Milling & Jennifer Muellor
Invitation to follow
For more details please visit
www.myweddingplace.com
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Matt Mitski and Oprah Tudor
will marry on May 13, 2006
Palm Event Center
at Mitchell Katz Winery
Pleasonton, California
Formal Invitations will follow.
For more information and updates
please visit our wedding web page at:
www.theweddingknot.com
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If you would like to browse through more than a 100 Save the Date cards, there is a link on the following web page that pops up a browsing slide show window:

http://www.galleriaventures.com/postcardweb/o/savethedateindex.htm

Or here is the actual Save the Date slide show link for browsing over 100 card designs:

http://www.galleriaventures.com/postcardweb/wedding/slides_savethedate/index.php

By browsing through the many variations you will see that each couple tries to create their own unique feeling for the announcement of their arrangements. Some want to be more conventional, some want to be casual, and some want to add some humor. It is important that your design gets some attention and sets the tone for the rest of your wedding.

Making a save the date design that will be cool, unique and personalized to reflect the style of your wedding is not difficult. It is probably one of the easiest things you will do in planning your wedding. It is important to not delay long in designing and getting your save the dates out so you can maximize the planning time of invitees. Have fun kicking off the first impressions of the style of your wedding in creating your save the dates.