Save the Date locations

tlc9615 · August 2014

I am still a few months out from sending my save the dates but I am a planner and like to have everything all set and ready to go when the time comes. However, I am struggling with the proper etiquette for the location to put on my save the date. I am having the ceremony at a church in my hometown. The reception is about 20 minutes east of the church. The hotel rooms that we are reserving a block are about 5-10 minutes further east from the reception location.

On my save the date do I just put the location of the ceremony or do I do both the ceremony and the reception. I originally was thinking just the ceremony but if we include the hotel information I don't want to confuse guests by having the hotels be 30 minutes from the location listed on the save the date. The other option is to put all of the more detailed information on our wedding website and including the link to the site on the save the date.

I would appreciate any feedback on the proper way to address all of this! Thanks in advance ladies!

southernbelle0915 · August 2014

Usually, you just put the city where all the festivities are taking place. E.g.:

Save the Date

for the wedding of

Bride Name

and

Groom Name

Date

City, State

Formal invitation to follow

manateehugger · August 2014

I don't think I've ever seen a STD with a specific venue on it. Normally it's just the city/town where the wedding will take place.

Just put everything on your wedding website and make sure the website is listed on the STD. '

pinkshorts27 · August 2014

City and State. And just FYI some things I learned from my STDs:

-Less than Half the guests actually visited the website

-At least 10 or 12 of my guests have lost their STDs because we didn't have magnets (IF I were to do them over, I would have made them magnets)

-Only send STDS to people who are getting an invite for sure. If you think you might have to trim your guest list, don't sen STDs to everyone, because STD = invite.

tlc9615 · August 2014

Thanks! Do you put the city and state for just the ceremony or the ceremony and reception?

manateehugger · August 2014

We just put the ceremony location. If people would be buying plane tickets for the same spot and your hotel blocks are on the website, it's not a huge deal.

pinkshorts27 · August 2014

tlc9615 said:

Thanks! Do you put the city and state for just the ceremony or the ceremony and reception?

Well my ceremony and reception was at the same place. I wouldn't dream of making guests drive farther than 10 minutes from one to the other, so for me it wouldn't matter.

manateehugger · August 2014

pinkshorts27 said:

tlc9615 said:

Thanks! Do you put the city and state for just the ceremony or the ceremony and reception?

Well my ceremony and reception was at the same place. I wouldn't dream of making guests drive farther than 10 minutes from one to the other, so for me it wouldn't matter.

I feel like this isn't a reasonable suggestion when you are talking cities. The church we got married in literally didn't have a suitable reception venue within a 10 minute radius.

Not to mention, you could go five minutes from our ceremony location and suddenly be in a different suburb.

holyguacamole79 · August 2014

Technically, our ceremony was in a different city than the reception (although they were 3 miles apart). We put the city / state of our ceremony location on the std. Nobody got lost

We had our wedding website on the STD for people to get more information.

crackktheskyy · August 2014

Ditto other PPs.

I'd put the ceremony city/state and include on your STD your wedding website information.

Also, on your wedding website you can use that handy maps function so that people can see where the ceremony and reception are. I don't know about anyone else, but I personally love it when people include the map on their website!

tlc9615 · August 2014

I love the map idea! Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately the church that my family belongs to does not have any reception sites near it so a twenty minute drive (with traffic) is what has to happen in order to make our day how we would like it. Our guests understand and we have done similar commutes for other family members. It is part of city living!

novella1186 · August 2014

PDKH said:

I don't think I've ever seen a STD with a specific venue on it. Normally it's just the city/town where the wedding will take place.

Just put everything on your wedding website and make sure the website is listed on the STD. '

This. Exactly this.

[Deleted User] · August 2014

We just put Cleveland, OH on our. The church was just outside of downtown & the reception was in the suburbs. But Cleveland is the Airport that anyone flying into would need to fly into. We also did a wedding website and put "For details on the big event check out our website at....."

As we got things scheduled like hotel info, etc, we added to the website for people to see as they wanted. We also included the hotel info with the invite. The website just gave people early access to the information.

jacques27 · August 2014

It's a save the date - not save the date and all the other information you need to know, because those are called invitations.

I'm generally against save the dates except for people who need to travel or when held on a holiday weekend or between mid-November and New Years. Otherwise, the standard amount of time that invites go out is usually more than ample for most people. For those who do have to travel, all they are looking for at this point is pricing flights. Ceremony would probably be most proper. But if your city has multiple international airports where one airport is going to be way more convenient than the other for them to fly in, I'd probably be inclined to go with the city where the reception and hotels are vs. the ceremony, since that's where the bulk of their time will be spent. If there are two airports they'll probably want to fly into the one closest to their hotel. But it's six of one, half dozen of the other at this point.

CMGragain · August 2014

The Save the Date is a new idea. They are not required at all. Their purpose is to give guests a chance to clear their calendar for the future wedding date, not to give information that will be on the future invitation.

pinkshorts27 · August 2014

PDKH said:

pinkshorts27 said:

tlc9615 said:

Thanks! Do you put the city and state for just the ceremony or the ceremony and reception?

Well my ceremony and reception was at the same place. I wouldn't dream of making guests drive farther than 10 minutes from one to the other, so for me it wouldn't matter.

I feel like this isn't a reasonable suggestion when you are talking cities. The church we got married in literally didn't have a suitable reception venue within a 10 minute radius.

Not to mention, you could go five minutes from our ceremony location and suddenly be in a different suburb.

I also don't live in a city. I just answered why I wouldn't know. It doesn't mean I think it is rude. I just wouldn't do it because I wouldn't want to inconvenience anyone. So if they are a half hour apart, then I guess it doesn't matter because they are either staying far away from the reception or the ceremony. I'd probably rather book close to the reception so it is a shorter drive at the end of the night.

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