Sat, 17 Jun 2006
My friend, Mike, is getting
married later this year. I receive a "save the date" notice last week,
followed by a second notice with a correction to the
wedding's website.
I really don't understand the point of these notices. In order to send a
save-the-date notificiation, you must already know when the wedding is, and if
you know when the wedding is going to be, you almost certainly know where it's
going to be held, especially if you're the type inclined to send out such
notices. Furthermore, you know who you're going to be inviting because you
wouldn't send a save-the-date notice to somebody who you aren't inviting. So,
if you know all the critical details, why not just send out the invitations?
My hypothesis is that some couple actually had a legitimite need to send out
such notices, such as an impending wedding date without a confirmed location.
But some bachelorette received received one of these notices and decided her
wedding had to have at least everything that her disorganized friend's did. And
at some point, the stationer or wedding planner added save-the-dates to the
checklist, and we'll be forever subject to such silliness until there is a cure
to bridal irrationality syndrome.
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