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STD city?

We are getting married in one city and having the reception in another.  Which should we put on the STDs?  Hotels are in reception city.

Re: STD city?

  • I'm not sure I'll ever stop giggling at the STD acronym.

    Um, but I'm prettttty sure on the save the date you just put...ya know...the date.

    How far away are the cities, and you're inviting people to both events, I assume? Are people traveling, is that why you need to put the city on it?

    I'm clearly confused.
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  • I would just put the date and the address for your wedding web site, where you can list the ceremony and reception locations.
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  • Most of the save the dates that I am looking at have a spot for the city.  What do your save the dates look like (if you are using them)?

    The two towns are 30 minutes apart.  I'm not anticipating a lot of turnout at the ceremony itself but wasn't sure.  People will be traveling and will need accomodations.
  • I would put the reception city since that's where the hotels are.

    We put a city because we only sent save the dates to oot people for travel arrangement purposes.
  • Do you need a city? Why don't you just list the date?
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  • I would put the city that the hotels are in -- in this case the reception city.

    We are getting married at a vineyard in a small town about 25 minutes away from the nearest big town with hotels.  We put the city with the hotels in it on the STDs (since that is where guests will be traveling TO), but put the small town the vineyard is on on the invitations (so guests can correctly find the address on google maps or enter it into their GPS).
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  • Yeah, you can just put the date and nothing else.  Then just say "formal invitations to follow"

  • Mine had a space for the city.  Assuming that the two cities are close (and if they aren't, you have another problem) I think either one is fine.  Either way, your guests will know when the wedding is, and approximately how far they have to travel.

    If you have a wedding website, you can also try using that space to put the website, and give your details there.
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  • Reception city.

    If I got an STD that said, "Save the date for Elisa and Mark's wedding! October 1, 2012. Formal invitation to follow." With absolutely no other information, it would be about as helpful as a postcard from Disneyworld.

    FWIW, we put our hotel block info and closest airports on our STDs so people could, you know, start making travel plans. Our wedding was in a very, very large city, so if people wanted to book a hotel they wouldn't have known where to begin without the hotel block. They could have been an hour away.
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  • I don't think I've even ever seen a STD that didn't have a city, and I have a quite a collection on my fridge right now. :)  Isn't the point so that people can start making travel arrangements?  Reception city, as PPs have said. 
  • It's pretty mainstream to have your wedding website on the STD. I included mine instead of the city where the reception is being held. You may want to cons
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  • Oops...consider that. That way you can be as wordy as you like!
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