The suite
The first piece
of one identity.
A save the date is the first thing your guests will keep, and usually the first thing designed — which is exactly why it so often matches nothing that follows. In an Evorrah suite it is cut from the same approved design as the invitation, the website and everything after it: the identity arrives complete, starting with the first envelope.
01
When to send them.
The working etiquette: save the dates go out six to eight months before the wedding — eight to twelve for a destination wedding, where guests are booking flights and leave. The invitation itself follows at six to eight weeks out, ten to twelve for destination.
Earlier than that and plans are too soft to hold; later and the calendar is already full. If your date lands near a holiday, lean early.
02
What goes on one.
Names, date, place — city is enough — and the words “invitation to follow.” No registry, no RSVP, no menu. A save the date makes one promise and keeps it.
Digital, printed, or both work from the same design: a printed card for the people who keep paper, the same piece on screen for the guests a stamp would only slow down.
03
Where Evorrah fits.
The save the date is a suite piece, designed with everything else rather than before it — so the identity your guests meet in month one is the identity they will see at the dinner table.
It is also where your guest list begins. The list you build to send save the dates is the same list that will drive the invitations, the RSVPs and the seating later. Build it once.
04
Asked and answered.
When should save the dates go out?
Do save the dates need to match the invitations?
Are digital save the dates acceptable?
What information goes on a save the date?
Can I send save the dates before the venue is final?
Begin as you
mean to finish.
The first envelope and the last place card, one design between them. Start with the moodboards.