Wedding Save the Date: What It Is, What to Include and When to Send It

A save the date is a notice ahead of the invitation: it asks your guests to keep the wedding date free before they receive all the details. Bodas.net places it between 7 and 9 months before the wedding, especially when there are guests who travel, and the invitation about 3 or 4 months in advance.

Here you have exactly what it is, what to include, wording to copy, whether paper or digital suits you better, who to send it to and the most common mistakes. Replace the fields in square brackets with your own.

What Is a Save the Date?

The save the date is a card or message announcing the wedding day months in advance so guests can note it down. It does not replace the invitation: it is a first notice with the bare minimum.

• What it solves: that nobody makes other plans that day, especially those who have to travel or take days off.
• What it does not solve: times, exact venues or replies, which go in the invitation.
• When it makes most sense: at weddings with guests from elsewhere, on very popular dates or far in advance.

When Is the Save the Date Sent?

Bodas.net places the save the date between 7 and 9 months before the wedding, intended above all for when there are guests who travel, and the invitation afterwards, about 3 or 4 months in advance. If many guests live far away, the same source recommends bringing the invitation forward to between 4 and 6 months.

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The timings come from the source cited and are a guide. To fit the mailing into the rest of the planning, see the wedding timeline.

What Should You Include in a Save the Date?

A save the date only needs your names, the date, the city or area and a note that the invitation will follow. The less text, the better the date is remembered.

• Your names, as you want them to appear on all the stationery.
• The full date, with day, month and year.
• The city or area, even if you do not give the exact venue yet.
• «Invitation to follow» or a similar phrase.
• A link to your wedding website, if you have one.

What Wording Goes on the Save the Date?

Save the date wording works when it is short and keeps the date clearly visible. These templates adapt to a card, an image or a message.

Classic Wording

Warm Wording

Message for WhatsApp or Email

For Guests Who Travel

Paper or Digital Save the Date?

Both formats work: paper is kept as a keepsake and digital arrives instantly and is easy to share. Many couples send the digital one to everyone and keep paper for the invitation.

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Who Should You Send the Save the Date to?

The save the date is sent only to the people you are certain to invite, because anyone who receives it then expects the invitation. If you are still unsure about part of the list, it is better to wait for the invitation for those guests.

• Family and friends confirmed on the list.
• Guests travelling from another city or country, first.
• Key suppliers do not need it: the signed booking is enough for them.

Which Mistakes Should You Avoid with the Save the Date?

The most common mistakes are sending it before the date is fixed, overloading it with information and sending it to people who are not invited later. All of them are avoided by waiting until the venue and date are signed.

• Sending it before the venue and date are confirmed.
• Filling it with details that may still change.
• Sending it to people who then do not receive an invitation.
• Using a style that has nothing to do with the rest of the wedding.

For the order of bookings after setting the date, there is wedding suppliers in Seville, and to do the sums, how much a wedding in Seville costs.

Can the Save the Date Style Carry Over to the Photos?

Yes: although FotomatonMR does not design save the dates or invitations, the photo booth print template is personalised for FREE with your names, the date or a logo, and it can follow the style of your stationery. We send you the draft to approve before the wedding.

Each guest takes home their printed photo on the spot, with unlimited prints during the contracted hours on the formats that print. Everything about the service in the wedding photo booth in Seville.

How Much Does a Photo Booth with FotomatonMR Cost?

Hiring a photo booth with FotomatonMR starts from just €299; the Magic Mirror and the CaricaBot, from just €350. The final price depends on hours, venue and extras and is given in writing in the proposal, with no commitment; any travel is quoted separately. More detail in the wedding photo booth price in Seville.

How to Get Started with FotomatonMR

Requesting a proposal takes three steps and none of them commits you.

1. Date and venue: tell us the day, the town and the space for the event.
2. Format: tell us which format you are interested in and how many guests you expect, or ask us to help you choose.
3. Written proposal: we send you what is included, the hours, any travel and the price.

Message us on WhatsApp at +34 653 64 21 70 or through the contact page.

FotomatonMR at a Glance

• What it does: premium photo booth hire and photo, video, voice and caricature experiences for weddings, celebrations and corporate events, since 2017.
• Where: Seville and its province; also Cádiz and Huelva, and Córdoba occasionally. In Málaga the partner Fotomaton360 Málaga takes the events (see photo booth in Málaga).
• Track record: more than 1,000 premium events and a 4.9/5 rating on Bodas.net.
• Experiences: Vintage Photo Booth, Magic Mirror, 360 Photo Booth, Overhead 360, Glambot, CaricaBot, Audio Guestbook (classic, Kiss and with a screen), giant letters and red carpet.
• Includes: setup included, an attendant during the service, FREE personalisation with names, date or logo, and unlimited prints during the contracted hours on the formats that print.
• Price: from just €299; Magic Mirror and CaricaBot, from just €350.

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