Invitations and save the date

This is a tricky thing. In Sweden people usually don't send out Save the Date cards. Wedding invitations go out about 10 to 12 weeks before the event with an RSVP deadline approximately 2 weeks after the guests got the invitation, meaning 8 to 10 weeks before the wedding. This gives you enough time to chase those who haven't replied and calculate food and drink and everything else you might need to have in place on the big day.

However, if you have friends or family living abroad (and Sweden is large enough to cause travel problems - flying in from Kalix is like flying in from Italy) they might need to know earlier than that. Now, we have people we wish to invite from South Africa and the UK and the Netherlands, so I decided to send out save the date cards. Then I calculated the cost and realised that it really is silly doing it through snail mail. Everyone we know have updated themselves and use the net, so I decided we could make a video and e-mail it to people instead. It's a heads up after all.

It didn't turn out as we planned but I saved it with a bit of humour and a fancy e-mail with the intro image from our website. And the theme is present on this video in a not so subtle way; bluegrass.

I'll deal with the invitations eventually.