Tough situation, NEED HELP with wording for Change the Date Announcement!! =(

Jane Smith and William Jones

regretfully announce that their upcoming wedding,

planned for July 14, 2012

has been postponed

until further notice.

We are still planning to marry

at a later date and will inform you

as soon as more details are known.

*good luck - If you are going to lose money in deposits, maybe just scale back the celebration?

Perhaps something along the lines of "In order to fully accommodate all of our guests we have decided to postpone our wedding until a time when it will be more easily achievable for everyone involved. We recognize the complexity of planning a wedding and graciously request your understanding as we delay the process to fully guarantee the event is enjoyable to our family and friends. As soon as we have settled on a confirmed date, we will formally notify everyone well in advance to allow for the necessary travel arrangements.”

I actually had a similar situation since my family knows my since of humor I just added an insert that said "Oops...My Bad due to a Change of Venue the Wedding has been moved to March 24, 2011." I'm used to controversy so I just rolled with the punches...I hope that everything works out well for you. Your family and friends should understand your situation.

Thanks everyone! I didn't realize my post had been cut off but here is the rest:

So that said, we want to notify our guests that we need to delay before anyone actually starts looking at plane tickets or hotels if they are from out of town even though we do not have a new date, but we don't want to 1-alarm anyone or start gossip 2-air my families finances to people. I've read you need to call people, but we are 7 months out from the wedding, and we would rather send out little notecards to everyone who had gotten the save the dates. We are hoping to come up with something lighthearted/cute so our guests don't get alarmed, because theres nothing with our relationship that is the problem. One of my bridesmaids suggested this: "Don't dust off your dancing shoes just yet! We need a little more planning time before we wed!"

Any ideas, suggestions, thoughts etc would be so appreciated. We really were not expecting to deal with this, and are trying to make the best out of the situatio

Sorry to hear you have to postpone the wedding but I think that is a smart decision. There is nothing wrong with taking some extra time to save up! I think the suggestion your BM made is perfect for keeping it light-hearted and it gets the point across!

Aw, I'm sorry! Can you just scale back the celebration you have planned to a brunch or cake/punch/apps reception? If not, I agree with Katie, it's really smart of you to postpone.

What if you just send a "Stay tuned!" or "Change the date!" postcard? You could snap a cute picture of you two holding a 2013 calendar, looking at your watches, or tuning a piano/radio/tv, and then use some version of your BM's wording with a "stay tuned" phrase, so guests know they're still going to be invited. (You just have to follow through and invite them when you do finalize the date.) I think the word "regret" would make me think you're breaking up. I would avoid that.

Good luck!!!!!

I love your BM's suggestion that is super cute!!!

You could use vistaprints 100 Free postcards to print your cards.

with envelopes and shipping, it comes to around $11

Sorry to hear you have to postpone the wedding - good luck

Thanks so much everyone for your suggestions and feedback!! And thanks for the idea, Hayley!

Any suggestions on wording a new "save the date" from a previous postponement?