Save the Date: Picture or No?

We decided to use a couple of photos from our engagement photos to show them off. Otherwise, when else would you use them? That was our logic. Save the dates are typically sent out 6-8 months before your wedding. We got married October 5th of this year and sent ours out the first week of April.

We did wooden magnets from Etsy, absolutely gorgeous and very affordable!
We get married on November 27th, 2020 which is the day after Thanksgiving so I actually sent ours out today. Our logic is that everyone plans for the next Thanksgiving during the current Thanksgiving so we want to ensure everyone can decide and plan for in advance.

FH and I don't have any photos for ours. We would have time to add our engagement photos (scheduled next month) but the design I chose doesn't fit for a photo and I kinda look back on it and I think photos are nice and it's making me second guess but I still really love our design lol.

We used one of our engagement photo's for our STD's and sent them out about a week ago for our June 2020 wedding. We also took our engagement pictures at our wedding location and basically a year from the date of our wedding so they do coordinate with the time of year/location of our wedding.

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True! It is just that we will not have our engagement photos done until May and I was hoping to send the save the dates earlier than that!

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Oh! Those turned out so beautiful! I love it! I will definitely be looking on Etsy! Thank you for the idea!

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Very pretty! Our downfall is that we won't have engagement photos until May... We would prefer to send them earlier than that..

View Quoted Comment Yes, your save the dates should (generally) go out 6-8 months before you wedding date. I got married in October also and we sent ours out in April. Could you move your engagement photos up a month or 2? If not, I would not worry about it and just send save the dates without photos. They make very pretty ones without photos.

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Oh, I wish I could, but I live in Wisconsin and we basically have winter until March-April. The last thing I want is snow in our photos because snow makes me so miserable haha. That's actually why we haven't done our photos now because of the snow! True, maybe I will look at some of those non-photo options and just try those out!

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I hear you, girl. I also hate snow lol. Definitely check out the non-photo STD’s and then maybe you can find a way to incorporate some of your engagement photos into your reception at the wedding?

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I never thought of doing that! Thank you so much for sharing some advice! I appreciate it

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These are beautiful Ashley!! I love that they are something that your guests will keep after your wedding!

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Thank you so much! I'm absolutely in love with them! We couldn't be happier!