Starting in the mid-2000s, “Save the Date” announcements for weddings have grown in popularity. These types of notifications let brides and grooms inform their guests of their upcoming nuptials way ahead of time.
By sending a Save the Date card, postcard, or handy magnet, your guests have plenty of notice to make sure they’re free. These are especially convenient for weddings during peak times like the holiday season or if the ceremony will require travel.
If you’re planning your wedding, here are the best websites for buying Save the Date products, in no special order.
1. The Knot
The Knot is a terrific wedding planning website. You can set up a free custom website, get a personalized spending plan, create your registry, see vendor recommendations, and much more. So along with these planning tools, you can buy products as well.
From start to finish, check out The Knot’s Save the Date and Change the Date cards as well as invitations and thank you’s.
You can browse through pages upon pages of Save the Date cards and postcards in every color and style imaginable. If you want to narrow down the choices, use your wedding colors. If you prefer a seasonal card, pick spring, summer, fall, or winter. You can also select the style and number of photos you want and then filter the choices further by card or postcard.
To see a few cards in person, you can order samples to help you decide. And be sure to check out the Free Samples section along with any discount codes displayed on the site.
The Knot is not just a great place to order your wedding products, but also a wonderful spot to help you plan that big day. And for more help, check out these mobile wedding planners.
2. Zazzle
Zazzle offers all sorts of customizable products from posters and mousepads to mugs and wall clocks. And the site has a neat Weddings section with everything you need for the day you say, “I do.”
Check out place cards, napkins, and menus for the reception along with gifts for the bridesmaids, groomsmen, and parents. As for the stationery products, Zazzle has wedding announcements, invitations, RSVP cards, thank you cards, and of course, Save the Date cards.
You can browse Save the Date photo cards and postcards or narrow down the options. Pick from things like the foil, type, format, orientation, shape, or size. Once you see the results, you can sort by popularity or price.
Want a unique Save the Date? There are magnets and calendars to let your guests know about the upcoming ceremony. The magnet selection is impressive with all shapes and sizes. As for the calendars, you’ll find postcard, magnet, and wall calendars, with tons of styles and colors.
If you’re looking for excellent chocies, affordable prices, and regular discounts on not just Save the Dates but other wedding products, check out Zazzle.
3. Basic Invite
Basic Invite is a site offering invitations for occasions like weddings, graduations, new baby celebrations, and other special events.
For weddings, you can look through the enormous collection of announcements, invitations, enclosure cards, and thank you’s. You’ll also find bridal shower products, items for your reception, and gifts for the bridal party. And if your wedding date has changed, be sure to check out the Change the Date cards.
For Save the Date options, you can pick from cards, postcards, and magnets. Like other sites, you can filter your choices. Pick the size, color, orientation, number of photos, or a theme.
And speaking of theme filters, there are more to choose from than you can imagine! If you’re having a beach, floral, country, or nautical wedding, you’re covered. Looking for a New Orleans, Hawaiian, roaring 20s, or Vegas theme? They’ve got it!
Another great option for your Save the Date announcement is uploading your own design, which is available for both cards and magnets.
So, if your wedding has a distinctive theme or design, make sure you look at the Save the Date options on Basic Invite.
4. MagnetStreet
Don’t let the name fool you, MagnetStreet sells many wedding, business, life moment, school-related products that go beyond magnets.
The Weddings section of the site is packed with invitations, programs, reception products, thank you cards, and wedding gifts. You’ll also find helpful items in the Wedding Blog & Ideas area like wedding color trends, a planning checklist, budget calculator, and wedding quotes.
Now for those Save the Date products; you can pick from magnets, cards, or postcards. With each type of Save the Date, you can narrow your options by foil color, the number of photos, collection, style, color, or orientation. You also have an option to upload your own design, like on a Basic Invite.
Make sure that you head to the Free Samples section of MagnetStreet as well. You can currently choose from two sample kits to try out their products. You can also get free Save the Date samples making MagnetStreet definitely worth a visit!
5. Zola
Zola is a wedding-specific site, like The Knot. It offers free planning tools, wedding websites, a registry, and stationery products including Save the Dates and Change the Dates.
You’ll find a beautiful selection of cards, postcards, and magnets in the Save the Date section. And as you may have guessed, you can use filters to narrow down your choices. Pick a style, color, and the number of photos. Then choose if you want only those designs available as magnets, with foil, or that offer letterpress printing.
Zola has another filter that you may find interesting which is for items designed by featured artists. This is a great way to add something distinctive to your Save the Date product or even something more creative for your wedding invitation.
For another excellent website that gives you wedding planning and products all in one spot, head to Zola. And be on the lookout for special pricing and free shipping offers!
Send Your Save the Date
Save the Date products are becoming a norm when planning weddings. Make sure you give your guests enough time to plan to attend your ceremony and celebration by sending a Save the Date card.
With the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020, Change the Date products are not just popular but essential, and all these sites offer those too if you need them.
Best of luck planning your big day! And for more help doing that, check out these apps for wedding invitations on a budget.
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