Shara Tomkinson
Shara Tomkinson 12 Mar 2017

Do you send save the dates out for just day guests or night guests as well?...

Do you send save the dates out for just day guests or night guests as well? Would it be rude to send a night guest a save the date for them to learn they are only coming the night party?

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UKbride Administrator
UKbride Administrator 12 Mar 2017

I've sent mine out for both but put evening in corner

Victoria Redsull
Victoria Redsull 12 Mar 2017

We sent them to both.

UKbride Administrator
UKbride Administrator 12 Mar 2017

I've always associated save the dates for day guests only. If I received one I'd assume I'm going to get a day invite

UKbride Administrator
UKbride Administrator 12 Mar 2017

Make sure you specify it's just the night. They don't need to save the whole date if it's just the night, if I got a save the date I'd be annoyed to later find out it was just the night. Especially of its a weekend as it would have been difficult for me to sort out the whole day off.

UKbride Administrator
UKbride Administrator 12 Mar 2017

We did save the date magnets for day guests and save the evening magnets for the evening guests x

UKbride Administrator
UKbride Administrator 12 Mar 2017

I sent them to both as the invitation will give more details to day or evening x

UKbride Administrator
UKbride Administrator 12 Mar 2017

sent them to both then sent invites out few months after but told those that were only invited to night do that we might have space for day depending who says they cant make it :) plus we had room at ceremony for everyone just not at reception explained this and welcomed evening guest to church ceremony n tbh none of them took offence all understood x

UKbride Administrator
UKbride Administrator 12 Mar 2017

I've put save the dates in with the invites. Saves on stamps and confusion!

UKbride Administrator
UKbride Administrator 12 Mar 2017

Pretty sure save the dates are for day guests then if you get declines you can 'promote' evening guests. Then when all day guests are confirmed you can invite evening guests :)

UKbride Administrator
UKbride Administrator 12 Mar 2017

I think you need to send to everybody you are inviting to your wedding - and if you want to distinguish between save the day and save the evening then you can specify that. Especially if you are getting married mid-week, people will need time to finish work/shower/change and get to your venue. I was invited to a midweek wedding and although it was only 20 minutes from my workplace I still needed to change my shift and ask for an early finish so I could be there on time.

UKbride Administrator
UKbride Administrator 12 Mar 2017

Yes both your just suggesting they keep that date in mind they know they will be invited either way

UKbride Administrator
UKbride Administrator 12 Mar 2017

I sent 'save the day' and then 'save the evening'

UKbride Administrator
UKbride Administrator 12 Mar 2017

We had our save the dates say 'pencil us in' we're getting married on 15th July 2017. This gave us the option to do Day or evening invites as it doesn't say save the date or save the evening! X

UKbride Administrator
UKbride Administrator 12 Mar 2017

Just send save the dates for the day time xx

UKbride Administrator
UKbride Administrator 12 Mar 2017

U can buy save the evening invites

UKbride Administrator
UKbride Administrator 12 Mar 2017

I only sent save the dates to day guests :) thought it would be awkward to send to evening as well in case they assumed it was the day they were invited to :)

UKbride Administrator
UKbride Administrator 12 Mar 2017

I think it's probably best to specify if it's day or night/both. Nowadays it's less common for people to just work Mon-Fri 9 til 5 so people appreciate getting as much notice as they can as getting time off work or shifts swapped can be hard (especially for those who work evenings/weekends)

UKbride Administrator
UKbride Administrator 12 Mar 2017

I'm sending my save the dates to all my guests as we haven't quite decided who's going to which yet!!

UKbride Administrator
UKbride Administrator 13 Mar 2017

I've made two versions of my save the dates - one saying "save the date for the wedding" and another saying "save the date for the evening celebration of the wedding"

UKbride Administrator
UKbride Administrator 13 Mar 2017

A friend of mine did two types of save the day invites.
One to the day guests which is the normal save the day.
One to the night guests called save the evening x

UKbride Administrator
UKbride Administrator 13 Mar 2017

I'm only doing save the dates for the daytime guests then will send out invites about 6-8 months before to both x

UKbride Administrator
UKbride Administrator 13 Mar 2017

I only did save the dates for all day guests

UKbride Administrator
UKbride Administrator 13 Mar 2017

Just send them for the day x

UKbride Administrator
UKbride Administrator 13 Mar 2017

I have save the date magnets they are being given to day guests and some evening guests, they all have the same magnets. I know people are saying they would be for day time guests only but I know some of my fiends coming to the evening would still like a magnet. Me and my fiancé also work shifts so some of our friends will be working night shifts and would have to try and book the shift off. You should send them to who you want to send them too.

UKbride Administrator
UKbride Administrator 13 Mar 2017

I didn't do save the date's at all. I couldn't justify the cost of doing so. But then again, we decides to get married at New Year and we got married on Oct 1st so by the time I sorted the venue & reg office out it was March so I sent the full invites out instead. We had already decided that we would just have to cope without those that couldn't attend so we saved a heap of money on printing and posting

UKbride Administrator
UKbride Administrator 30 Mar 2017

Katie Paddock this is the thing I was on about! Xx

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