Tip: Giving your guests as much information as you can will make them know you care about them. It will be as though you are taking care of them without actually being there. They will wonder how you did it. The answer—planning, planning, planning.

Send out Save-The-Date Cards or a Wedding Newsletter. After you have secured the date of the Wedding and the hotel information for where your guests will stay, send the Save-The-Date Cards so they can plan for the trip well ahead of time. Besides the date and location of the wedding, your Save-The-Date Card can include any information on Hotel Rooms you may have blocked as well as information about events, tourist attractions in your town, Renting Transportation, how to get from the airport to the hotel, and any other pertinent information.

Sending Save-The-Date cards is an excellent tool to give out-of-town guests the extra time they may need to plan. After you send the save-the-date card, you can send a follow-up mailing either separately or with the invitation that contains hotel information. In other words, if you do not have all the information when you want to send the Save-The-Date Cards, send it with what you do know, then follow-up with an additional mailing with more details. If all you need to send is Hotel Information, you can just enclose this in your wedding invitations. A Wedding Newsletter is just that—a newsletter that gives an abundance of information instead of only date and hotel information.

Any way you do this, your guests will be so impressed how you have thought of EVERYTHING!!

Still keep having fun, stay organized, and keep smiling.

Fondly,
Marlene

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