Save the date wording
A save the date has one job: get your date into your guests’ diaries before anything else does. It needs names, the date, the town — and almost nothing else. The venue, the times and the reply all belong to the invitation.
Example 1 — Classic card
Save the Date
Emma Grace Hartley
and
Liam Thomas Bennett
Saturday, 12 June 2027
Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire
Invitation to follow
Example 2 — Short and modern (message or link)
Save the date — Emma & Liam are getting married!
Saturday 12 June 2027 · Cotswolds
Details and replies here: [your Vowlio link]
Pass it on to no one — the list is small and you’re on it
Example 3 — Destination wedding, extra notice
Save the Date (and book the flight!)
Emma & Liam
Saturday 12 June 2027
Castle Combe, Wiltshire
Nearest airports: Bristol and London Heathrow
Full invitation with hotel details to follow
How it is put together
“Invitation to follow” — The traditional closing line — it tells guests this is not the invitation and no reply is needed yet.
Town, not venue — Guests need to plan travel and hotels, not find the church. Town and county are enough at this stage.
Only the invited — Address save the dates to exactly who is invited — including whether partners and children are — to avoid a year of hopeful assumptions.
Good to know
- Send 6–8 months ahead for a home wedding; 9–12 months if guests must fly or book scarce hotels.
- Send save the dates only to people you are certain to invite — there is no graceful way to un-send one.
- A link save the date can point straight to your Vowlio page; it will simply grow the invitation details as you add them.