Do I Need SAVE THE DATES?

amanda1611t

My wedding is 50 people. We are getting married in October. about 20 of the people are family and close friends that most know the date already. By June my FI and I will have seen and announced our engagement to everyone we are inviting. Do we need save the dates? Or is it okay to mention the date in a conversation? We are planning on sending the invitations in the beginning of August. 

We also thought of just doing simple Save the Dates that are business cards with our names and website with the date clearly printed, since we are going to come across everyone soon.

I would really like to use the money from the Save the Dates elsewhere. 

meganb1977

I would definitly skip save the dates and use word of mouth where necessary.

adktd2boots

IDK who invented them and made people think they are necessary, but whoever they are should be shot.  Too many people get way too emotional over them and put way too much time and money in them.

If your wedding is a DW, then as a courtesy it's nice to let guests know so they can take time to plan and save.  Other than that, no need.

shaina925

My wedding is the same size as yours.  I was also going to skip them and just try to send out invitations a little earlier.  But, I have a 20 dollar free gift from shutterfly and I can actually get 25 Save the dates with printed out return addresses on the envelopes for under 9 dollars.  If I were to do Save the dates, I would definitely want them to be under 10 bucks!  The money can be spent in many other ways on the wedding! 

I am still debating whether or not to go ahead and order these.  Most people do know the date already, but it might be a nice keepsake for some people.  The ones I desinged on shutterfly have two pictures of us on it. 

Zimsgirl26

You don't need them but they are nice if you have OOT guests like me but in your case I think you're fine

Balaena

In short, no you do not. In your circumstance of a small wedding, so long as everyone who needs to know, knows the date and time, don't stress about it. I bet you'll be sending invites anyways. I'm sending postcards save-the-dates to a few important must be there's and relatives that live a distance away and will need more time to make plans. Nothing formal, just letting them know.