Help! What Date Do i Use on Wedding Signs? covid Wedding Date or Postponed Wedding Date?

I agree. Use your official wedding date since that’s the date that really matters.

Whatever date you get legally married

If the signs are JUST for the party,
I’d probably use the date of the party, or both dates, depending on what the signage actually is.

If the signs are for the party but really also more to display in your home after the fact, I’d go for date the legal marriage occurred.
I also think it’s totally cool to do both, like a sign that says “celebration: date” and somewhere else says “the newlyweds or newlastnames, established : marriage date”

Yes use the original date as that’s the most important day! If anything you can have “Established 0/0/000” then you could have at the bottom “Partying 0/0/000” for remembering both!

I agree with McSkipper:

If it is only for the party (like welcome signage and such), it would be best to include the date of the party itself. I would find it a little odd to go to a reception that says, "Welcome to the Wedding of Mr. and Mrs. Awesome, October 31, 2020" when the party date is September 2021.

If it's anything that will be a permanent fixture in your home, such as a display guest book (like frames and such), celebratory champagne flutes, etc. leave them as your legal wedding date. That is the special date anyway. Your reception is a celebration of that date.

I also would maybe include favor tags in the latter category (use your original/legal marriage date) because they are souvenirs of the celebration of that date.

Do the items really have to have the dates on them? I can’t think of many things that would require a date. For some reason, people slap dates on everything wedding related, when it’s actually completely unnecessary. Everyone in attendance knows what day it is.

I'd be inclined to use the actual wedding date on things that will be heavily photographed, just because it seems weird to mentally connect wedding things to a non-anniversary date, but we don't have anything with dates on it yet. The only thing I'm considering putting the reception date on is the seating chart, because that's really about the day everyone is celebrating with us.

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Agreed with Ava that dates probably aren't necessary on many of the things people put them on - there are probably only a few wedding related things that actually need dates IMO.

1) Your invitations (which would be the date of the event people are attending).

2) Your guestbook/guestbook alternative. We had a Covid elopement (legally married on our original day) and a wedding celebration a year and a couple weeks later, so we decided to put both dates on our guest book alternative, which was a photo of us with a large mat border for people to sign. We didn't want something hanging in our house that just had the day of a party on it (because in the future that date won't have as much meaning to us), but also didn't want guests signing something that had a date on it that didn't have any significance to them and didn't match up with the date their messages were written. So we put "On [original date], we said I do, but waited a year to celebrate with you" above a photo from our elopement, with the celebration date and location underneath the photo.

3) Your wedding album, which should be the dates the photo were taken, but if you have a different day of significance, such as if you were legally married last year, you could put both. We had a small album made with our elopement photos, and I'll probably have another one made for our wedding celebration.

We also happened to have dates on our escort cards (just because it worked so well with the design) but I think that's it. For those we chose the date of the event, since that was the date those cards were relevant for. Your welcome sign, menus, etc don't need a date on them, but if you did put a date, I would put the date of the event. If you do programs, I would put the date of the event that guests are attending on them. Guest favors tend to have dates, but I would omit them in this case. I think it would be weird to send guests home with an item that had an "old" date on it that was meaningful to you but not to them, but I also wouldn't want a date that had the "wrong" anniversary on it and just the date of your party.

My husband had our wedding date embroidered into his suit (this was done pre-Covid), which is one of the reasons that pushed us towards still getting married on our original date. I would have really hated if he had a suit that had a meaningless date embroidered in it, or one that just reminded me of the date that should have been.

Basically, I would pretty much skip the date on anything where it wasn't totally necessary!