Saving the day

12Oct09

Weddings need guests, if only to eat the food, drink the drink and get their cameraphones out when the falling over starts.

I’ll leave aside the terrible predicaments about who should be invited for another time… but assuming that your guest list is assembled then you need to send out the invitations. As there’s still 11 months to go then it’s a bit early to start sending out invitations. There is a problem: As B & C want to get married at the back end of August and as this is in the peak holiday season they have visions of all their nearest and dearest being away on vacation and not at their wedding.

The day is saved, thanks to a wedding custom (so Wikipedia tells me), of sending out a “save the date” card, which is not a formal invitation, but the paper equivalent of a draft meeting request. So a large amount of time is spent selecting the design of the card… our friend who’s getting married in June next year sensibly made her own. I know I mustn’t even mention this as a possibility to B.

Eventually a design is selected, its a happy couple standing in front of a caravan (I may have mentioned earlier that B & C are living in a caravan in the farm’s orchard). So the cards are ordered, written and despatched.

The save the date card is a bit like a film trailer, it hints at things to come, it’s like an advance notice of an invitation – having sent someone a save the date card it would be impossible not to invite them to the wedding, tempting as that might be.

The cards generate a mixed response, from “an email would’ve done” to “delighted to learn of your impending marriage…would’ve been on holiday…will change plans” which is precisely what the card is for.

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