How important are save the dates?

We are doing them. I think they're cute and just wanted them. I only paid $27 for 100 of them so it was worth it to me.

I didn't do them. Totally not necessary since most people have me on Facebook and they see my wedding statuses ha!

We did them because we wanted to get used to the professional photographer for the wedding and also tell our photographer not to do some of the poses he did at our engagement shoot!! Plus it was included in the photo package.

Not necessary. We are doing them because 90% of our guests are OOT. You're so close to sending invitations that I wouldn't even bother doing STDs

Mom's right, but we still sent them. I wanted to share our engagement photos with our families without bombarding Facebook, so we posted an album on our wedding website and put the link on the STD. We got 80 for $30 from Snapfish during a sale and loved them.

If you do and them, don't feel life you have to send them to everyone on your guest list. Everyone who gets a STD must get an invite, but if you send an invite without a STD that's ok.

I sent them, but 100% of our guests are out of town. There are a few people (FIL's family friends) that I don't have addresses for yet, but that's okay, I'll just send them an invite and it'll be fine

I think they are an unnecessary expense. If somebody doesn't get one and then receives a last minute invite, they'll wonder if they were on The B list.

We won't be doing them. A simple phone call to OOT family is enough. I personally feel like they are a waste of money I'd rather spend towards something else.

They aren't necessary. We won't be sending them either.

They're totally not necessary, and I completely agree with @Centerpiece. We only bought 30 for our VIP guests who are also OOT and older and need to make arrangements early on. Especially with the wedding date being close to holiday traveling.

They aren't necessary but you will have a better turnout with them

I am doing them since our wedding date is during memorial weekend.

I didn't really want to do them, because I don't find them necessary and I didn't want to spend the money on them. However, 80% of our guest list is out of town, and really out of town (like I'm from Minnesota and people are from all over the country and England) so we will probably end of doing them.

I did them because 99% of the guests will be staying in a hotel the night if the wedding. It's an expensive area and I know there is another wedding at the resort the same day as mine. I wanted to make sure people were able to get rooms.

They aren't necessary, but I did them because I like dabbling with photoshop and wanted to design something. I do wish I had waited a little longer to at least have my wedding website on there so people had hotel information before the date (since almost everyone is from out of town).

I used a free website to design a cute save the date and then made a Facebook event. I emailed the save the date to the few folks who are not on Facebook. We spent nothing but it was fun to design, we got to express our excitement, and we gave people an early head's up.

They are def not necessary but i did them, I got 100 save the dates for like $25 during a sale on vista print and it cost me like $38 in stamps. I had a lot of OOT guests and i personally just liked them. Luckily 90% of my guest list is family so i am not worried about having to disinvite anyone.

But if you don't really want to do them or think they are a waste of money you def do not need to have them!

I think STDs are WORSE than unnecessary. Sending them out means you are committing to inviting the recipient. You will start getting questions, are kids invited? Can I bring a date? Be prepared to answer. You may find out as time goes by there are others you would rather invite, but you are locked in now.

Yes, I agree, some people have many out of town guests, but I think many brides just like the thought of a magnet on people's refrigerator. That can end up being a costly magnet (not the cost of the STD, the cost of losing flexibility with your guest list).

I think you are far safer sending a very nice handwritten letter to grandparents. If you think your parents, siblings and bridal party need to be reminded, send them a nice email.

They aren't necessary but we sent them to share engagement photos and our website. We also have about 40% our guests traveling to the wedding. Many of those from the other coast.

They are not necessary however since ours is next August we didn't want guests booking vacation that day and since we are having a big wedding, that would just flush our money down the toilet. So we are sending our STD's in feb.