A formal save-the-date announces and reserves; it does not usually ask for a reply. If travelling guests need an early answer, add one restrained line with the link and say the invitation will follow.
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Please save the date. [Names] will be married on [Date]. Formal invitation to follow.
Kindly reserve [Date] for the wedding of [Names]. Details and the invitation will follow. Guests travelling from afar may indicate their intention at [Link].
[Names] request that you save the date of their marriage, [Date]. Invitation to follow; an early reply may be left at [Link] by [Deadline].
Placeholders in brackets — [Names], [Date], [Link], [Deadline], [Household] — are yours to fill; the generator below does it for you.
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Traditionally no — it says "save the date, invitation to follow". If your guests must book flights, an early "let us know if you can make it" with a link is helpful and increasingly common; just be clear it is a heads-up, not the final RSVP.
Around six months; eight for a destination or holiday-weekend wedding so people can book time off. The deadline calculator linked below places it relative to your date.
City is enough; the exact venue can wait for the invitation. Date, city, your names, "invitation to follow", and — if you are collecting early yeses — the link.
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All combinations: the RSVP wording hub. Not sure of the reply-by date? RSVP deadline calculator.
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