std text - too much?

I put text on the backside of the STD. Hotel, welcome dinner, etc. I know all of my guests wanted some details sooner than the invites would go out.

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I guess I should have mentioned this in my original post I was planning on doing magnets so there really wouldn't be much of a back lol that probably changes things quite a bit.

I have two magnet STDs on my fridge right now from other people and they just say "Save the Date", their names, the date and one lists the location, the other does not.

Neither have "formal invite to follow". Maybe that's something I shouldn't worry about fitting in?

I put all that on mine, but I put the website on the front (so they would notice it) and "formal invitation to follow" on the back.

Including a note that "formal invitation to follow" should not make for too many words on your save the date. It is appropriate to include all of the information you have suggested.

I don't think "formal invitation to follow" is really necessary anymore. Most people know what a STD is and that invitations come closer to the wedding. I also thought a lot of the designs are too much text. I opted for a STD that doesn't actually say "Save the date". I'll put the one I'm ordering below (the white out is our website)

Save the Date

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That's what I thought! I think I suddenly started to overthink it when I actually took a good hard look at Save The Dates I've received from other people that didn't list all of these things!

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Your post actually just inspired me to post this yours are so pretty. I'm literally obsessed.

I think I'm safe to leave the formal invite thing off, I just wanted to be sure I wasn't breaking any etiquette rules lol I figured it was implied.

Your design would work well for us. And we wouldn't even need the line indicating the date because we have a sign I bought with our date on it from Etsy, so the date will be in the picture we use already where are you ordering them from?

Our "Save The Date"

Yes, you are definitely over thinking it - don't we all at some point in the planning? LOL!

You don't have to include "formal invitation to follow" since that is implied by the fact that you won't have the venue address, RSVP info etc. Some people do include that sentence and it's no big deal if you want to. I didn't even include my venue name, I just put the city. I didn't even include the website on it. Since we had a block reserved for OOT guests, they didn't need to book their hotels 6 months in advance. If anyone did ask, we sent them the hotel block info.

We did this, simple yet telling them everything they needed to know. We couldn't fit our website on there so we had to include on a little paper in the envelopes

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You are so sweet!!! Thank you, we love them! We are ordering from minted and the design we chose is called "harmony". Since you don't need the date line, you could change that text to say "Save the date" instead. Or you could even change the top to location and put "formal invitation to follow" where I have our location. The reason I chose minted is because you have so much flexibility to do whatever you want. The sample of ours actually had all of the wording on the bottom but it looked weird so I moved it to the top.

That's not too much info. This was our STD, front and back.

I definitely think you need to have "formal invite to follow" on there. My sister forgot to put that on her STDs and got a ton of calls from people asking her for details, if there was an invite coming, where the wedding was going to be, etc...

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Lol these are great! Thank you for sharing, and thank you for the help and the laugh!

I had magnets made from minted.. they just had our picture - the location- and then said “ formal invitation to follow”.. But our picture had our date in it we had a sign with the date .. but I don’t think yours will have too much info

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These are great! A lot of the designs I am drawn to look very similar! It totally doesn't look like as much as I thought! A visual is definitely helpful here!

I could definitely see some of my elderly guests thinking this was in place of an invitation lol probably better to be safe than sorry and have to field a whole bunch of questions

This is the mock of ours. I will be adding a small "details" card that has the wedding website, welcome dinner info & registery information.

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These are all very good ideas! Thank you so much!

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Okay! We are doing a sign in our pictures with our date as well! Cuts down on one whole line of text! lol thank you for putting my mind at ease

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This looks like a totally manageable amount of text! lol for some reason I had this idea in my head that the text would be covering a majority of the STD and you'd just see FH's and I's faces peeking out of a random "a" or "o"

We did magnets with minimal wordage as well. I did print up something else and stuck it in the envelope asking people to check out our wedding website because it's a DW wedding and we are putting all the deals on flights/hotels on the website and wanted to make sure people checked it out.

In my opinion ‘ formal invitation to follow ‘ is implied.
And at least for my layout, it would’ve been too much text.
The layout that I chose had :

Names
Date
Location
Formal Invite to Follow

On the stock layout. It’s out of town for many and the venue is a little quirky so details for travel and accommodations were the most important to me, and the whole reason I bothered with save the dates. SO I deleted the formal invite to follow line and put our website on that line instead. No one has been confused. (About the invite, that is. Still get plenntttyyy of questions that are already previously spelled out on the website, but that’s a whole different story ...)