When we were still planning the big wedding in October 2015 I was planning on sending out save the dates. Actually, about this time. Mostly because most of my family lives out of state and I wanted them to have plenty of notice so they could make plans to come down. When we changed our plans to the small 12.13.14 wedding we barely had time to send out invitations, much less save the dates. We decided to just have immediate friends and family there and to just get married under a tree and then go to a restaurant afterward. Much less informal. However I do have some family in Ohio that I wanted there (like my grandma) that can’t make it because of the short notice, which I was aware may happen when we changed plans about 2-3 months ago. It’s just not enough notice for people out of state to make plans to come. Hence: the purpose of the save the date.
Off topic: I’ve always been one of those people that dreamed of the big “party of the year” wedding, until I started planning one. I wouldn’t wish this on my worst enemy! If it was up to me we would’ve just went to Vegas and made a vacation out of it, but he wanted to include his immediate family. It’s amazing what really matters when it comes down to it. I realized that the only thing important to me is marrying him, so why was I spending $10k to do it?
Funny that this thread got bumped up just when it did, because we received a save the date for a first holy communion earlier this week!!! A COMMUNION! That is a bit much for me!
~M.~
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