Save the Date Cards is preliminary predecessors to your important event, such as a wedding, anniversary party, or family Christmas celebration. They're typically used when the invitees simply must be in attendance, such as when extended families from both sides have to be present at a wedding. Because the chances of all those in-laws and relatives living within the same city, let alone the same state, is highly unlikely, save the date cards act as little forerunners to help the guests prepare for the big day. They're used especially with destination weddings when the wedding may be up to 6 to 12 months away.

Even though save the date cards grew out of weddings, it's common to see them in use by people, corporations, and non-profits for ceremonies, grand openings, cocktail parties, gala events, art shows, and other public events endemic to society. Save the date cards have no inherent reservation for weddings any longer. It's extremely appropriate to use them with any event. It was thought, in the past, that because weddings were so significant, save the date announcements should be used them for especially. However, with the importance of social events being not too far behind, other people and formats began adopting save the date announcements.

Save the date cards are extremely necessary for weddings, under any circumstances, even when all the guests live close by. The reason is that you have plan for the ?edge case? scenario. Since it's vitally important that every single family member be in attendance, you have to send save the date cards to allow for ?what if?, extenuating circumstances. Sometimes, certain family members work schedules, work-related events, children's events, birthday parties, special occasions, and other events, especially planned vacation time, accidentally coincide with your wedding. With save the date cards, the family members can re-arrange their plans to be able to attend your wedding. Engineers, planners, and mathematicians, especially any kind of perfectionist, will be perfectly inclined toward save the date cards. They virtually guarantee the presence of your entire guest list. That brings up another good point. It's critical to compile the entire guest list before sending out the save the date cards because some guests will be inadvertently missed if you don't do this. It just wouldn't do to have mismatches on the guest list of those who received wedding invitations and save the date cards versus that group that just received the actual invitations. That would defeat the purpose of total guest list enclosure.

Destination weddings, cities with busy tourist seasons hogging up all the hotel rooms, and small towns without enough travel accommodations all benefit from save the date cards because guests are able to make cheap travel plans, get cheap reservations, and ascertain all the elements of the event way ahead of time.

Save the date cards are a vital component of any modern wedding.