Save the dates have become a pretty standard part of the wedding stationery suite. While a formal invitation was once the initial piece of correspondence that a family member or friend usually received to announce an upcoming wedding, couples in today’s busy world find that sending advance notice before the actual invitation makes it easier for their loved ones to fit the wedding in among their other plans. Here are some of our favorite wedding save the dates ideas to help you announce your wedding far ahead–and with style!
Teasing a Great Location
One of the most amazing things about having a wedding in the Charleston, SC area is the opportunity to incorporate all kinds of iconic architecture, natural features, and historical spots into your wedding invitations and stationery. The Rainbow Row is a great example, with homes painted in quirky pastel colors lining the harbor. An illustration of the Rainbow Row makes a great addition to your stationery, as you can see in the photo! Destination save the dates allow you to introduce your guests to the beauty that surrounds your wedding venue and pique their interest to learn more.
An Advance Wedding Favor
Your save the date can double as a little gift to your guests, giving them something to smile at every time they see it displayed on the refrigerator at home or pinned to their bulletin board at the office. A full color photograph from your engagement photo shoot can be added to your save the date along with the essential information about date and location of the wedding, along with whatever other artistic elements you want to use to complement it. While people will love seeing your photo again and again, it will also serve a practical purpose: continually reminding your guests to keep your wedding date in mind so that they don’t schedule their family vacation at the same time!
Launch Your Wedding Vibe
As the very first piece of stationery that your wedding guests receive, the save the date can be the launch pad for your wedding’s unique vibe! If you have created a crest or monogram that you plan to use as an important element of your wedding, this is the perfect time to roll it out to your “fans.” Of course, the colors of your wedding can also be introduced at this point, along with the flowers you plan to use or the distinctive features of your venue. Don’t have all of those details quite settled yet? That’s no problem–the great thing about a save the date is that it can be as simple or as elaborate as you want it to be. You can tease colors and a font without naming the venue if it’s still in doubt, or you could even go minimalistic with just a photo and the date of the big day.
Introduce Your Venue
A destination wedding, of course, is all about the destination, so it just makes sense to make your venue a big part of your save the date. One of our most popular design elements here at Dodeline Design is our watercolor maps. That could be a zoomed-out map of the entire Charleston area identifying the most important historical and architectural spots, or it could be a whimsical sketch of the estate and grounds where your wedding will take place. We love when couples make their watercolor maps super personal, adding their favorite restaurants, beaches, and park benches to the map so that their guests can enjoy them just as much as they do!
As with all of our wedding invitation and wedding day stationery, the save the dates that we create for our clients are fully customized. That means that they perfectly reflect you as a couple while also communicating exactly what your guests need to know at that moment. That doesn’t mean that you have to be an artistic person with fully formed ideas in mind when you come to us; our expert designers know how to pick your brain, find out what you like, and make suggestions to narrow down the options until we settle on the perfect one together. Make an appointment at our Mount Pleasant studio or call us to get started designing today!
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