save the date

Pre-invitation announcement

Save the date is a notice asking recipients to keep a future date open for an upcoming event, typically a wedding.

It functions as a pre-invitation, giving guests advance warning before formal invitations arrive: We're sending save-the-dates six months before the wedding.

The phrase also works as a noun for the card or announcement itself: Did you get their save-the-date?

Opposites
event announcement status

save the dateformal invitation

Official event summons

wedding invitation · event program

attendance intent

save the datecancellation notice

Message ending an agreement

regrets only · decline · uninvitation · disinvitation · send regrets

event status

save the datechange of plans

cancellation notice · uninvite

Family

save, date, saved, saves, saving, saver, savers, savings, savable

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G