Save the date examples, six you can copy and open

Three things, in this order. A closed envelope a guest taps. One full screen carrying your two names and the date, large enough to read without pinching. Then a quiet strip under it holding the place, the time if you have settled one, and a button that puts the day straight into a guest's calendar. On paper it is the same shape flattened: one card, one side, five lines.

Which is why wording alone is only half an example. A save the date is glanced at rather than read — in a message thread, next to a photograph of somebody's lunch. The words carry the facts; the design is what says wedding, says roughly what kind of wedding, and makes a guest stop long enough to read the facts at all. Two announcements with identical words land completely differently depending on what they are printed on.

So every example below sits on a real design rather than a description of one, and each picture opens the design live. One honest caveat about those links: they open the full digital save the date product’s parent — the complete invitation — because an announcement shows only the envelope, the hero and the strip beneath it, and everything further down is switched off. So judge the design and scroll past the rest. The whole set lives in the invitation template gallery.

Four steps, and none of them is the design work. Pick the design the example is shown on. Put your two names and the date over the ones in the hero. Set the place line to the precision you can promise — a venue if it is booked, a region if it is not. Then check the add-to-calendar button, because whatever the time row says is what lands in a guest's phone.

Then send the link wherever you already talk to these people. There is nothing for a guest to install and no account for them to make, and the page stays editable after it has gone out — so a place line that says "region" today can say the venue in March without a second message.

Designing it costs nothing — the announcement builds free, and the first 10 guests can open it before any money changes hands. Taking that limit off costs $19 once, whatever the guest count, hosted through your wedding date and at least 90 days after. A second language, as in the Arabic example above, adds $10. The picker only offers designs this SKU is actually sold on, so anything missing from it is not something you are overlooking.

The full invitation is the same link later, with the RSVP, the schedule, the gallery and the map switched on. It is $49 at checkout today — $89 list, with the discount that is running until Oct 31 applied automatically — and going up to it is billed as the gap between the two figures rather than as a second purchase. That move is made by hand at our end, so do not go looking for a button.