--- title: "Save the Date Digitali — Crea e Invia | Pressed Love" description: "Crea save the date digitali online e inviali su WhatsApp, SMS o email. Gratis da progettare, pagamento unico per pubblicare." canonical: "https://pressedlove.com/it/save-the-date" html: "https://pressedlove.com/it/save-the-date" markdown: "https://pressedlove.com/it/save-the-date.md" language: "it" --- Save the Date # Digital save the date cards your guests open in one tap Announce your wedding date with an animated digital save the date — sent by WhatsApp, link or QR code, opened on any phone with no app. Design it free, publish from €49, and carry the same design straight through to your full invitation. [Design your save the date](https://pressedlove.com/it/create)[Browse templates](https://pressedlove.com/it/templates) ## What a digital save the date does A save the date is the first thing your guests hear about the wedding — its only job is to lock the date in their calendar long before the formal invitation arrives. A digital save the date does that instantly: instead of printing and posting a card, you share a link that opens into an animated page with your names, the date and the place. Because it is a live webpage and not a flat image, it looks considered rather than improvised — the same designer typography and motion as your full invitation. Guests simply tap and see it; there is no app, no sign-up and no attachment to download. ## How to send a save the date 1. 1 ### Pick a template Choose one of 17 designer templates. The save the date and the full invitation share the same style, so everything matches. 2. 2 ### Add your date and names Enter the couple, the date and a one-line message. Preview it instantly in any of 29 languages — all free. 3. 3 ### Publish from €49 Pay once when you are ready. You keep lifetime access and can edit the details at any time. 4. 4 ### Share by WhatsApp or link Send a personal link to each guest, or one shared link and a QR code. Guests open it in a tap. ## Why couples choose a digital save the date A printed save the date costs money to design, print and post to every household — and it cannot change once it is in the mail. A digital save the date is delivered the moment you publish, reaches guests abroad at no extra cost, and can be resent or corrected in seconds if a detail changes. It also reads beautifully on the device your guests actually use. Most people check WhatsApp far more often than their letterbox, so a digital save the date is seen sooner — and a wedding website that already exists is one less thing to build later. [See how much digital saves vs paper →](https://pressedlove.com/it/why-digital) ## Save the date — frequently asked questions ### What is a digital save the date? A digital save the date is an online card you send to guests — by WhatsApp, link or QR code — to announce your wedding date before the full invitation goes out. With Pressed Love it is an animated webpage, not a static image: it opens with your names, date and a one-line message, and it works on any phone with no app to install. ### When should we send our save the dates? Send save the dates 6–8 months before the wedding, or 8–12 months ahead for a destination wedding or a holiday-weekend date. The full invitation follows about 6–8 weeks before the day. Because a digital save the date is instant and free to resend, you can also add late guests at any time. ### Do guests need an app to open it? No. A Pressed Love save the date opens in any phone or desktop browser straight from the link. There is nothing to download, no account for guests to create, and it looks the same whether you share it on WhatsApp, by SMS, by email or as a QR code. ### How much does a digital save the date cost? Designing and previewing your save the date is free. You pay a one-time fee only when you publish — from €49 — and that same project can carry through to your full wedding invitation, so you are not paying twice. ### Can the save the date and the invitation match? Yes. You choose one template and it carries your save the date and your full invitation in the same style, fonts and colours — a consistent look across every announcement, in any of 29 languages. ### Can I make a save the date online for free? You can design a save the date online and preview the finished thing on your own phone for free, in any of 29 languages, without entering card details. Publishing it — making the link live so guests can open it — is a one-time payment starting at €49. There is no subscription, no per-guest charge and no credit system, and the same project carries through to your full wedding invitation, so you are not paying twice. ### How do I send a save the date online? Choose a template, add your names, date and location, preview it, publish, then share the link. You can send one shared link to a group chat, generate a QR code for a family gathering, or send each household its own personal link by WhatsApp, SMS or email so you can see who has opened it. ### What should a save the date include? Five things: both of your names, the wedding date, the town or region, the phrase "invitation to follow", and — if guests will need to travel — a note that it is a destination or multi-day wedding. Everything else, including the venue address, dress code, schedule and RSVP, belongs on the full invitation. ### Do guests need an app to open a digital save the date? No. It opens straight from the link in whatever browser the guest already has, on any phone, tablet or laptop. Nothing is installed, nothing is attached, and no guest ever has to sign up for anything to see your save the date or, later, to RSVP. ### Are electronic save the dates considered rude? No — a save the date is an announcement, not a formal summons, and it is the most relaxed piece of wedding stationery there is. What guests notice is whether it looks considered and whether the information is correct. A designed, animated page sent directly to someone's phone reads as more thoughtful than a photo pasted into a group chat. ### Can we send a digital save the date and a printed invitation later? Yes, and plenty of couples do exactly that. The save the date is the piece with the lowest formality and the highest postage cost per unit of usefulness, so sending it digitally and keeping paper for the invitation is a sensible split. You can also do both digitally and keep the design consistent across the two. ### What if the wedding date or venue changes after we send it? You edit the page and the change is live immediately — every guest who opens the same link sees the corrected details. This is the single biggest practical advantage of an online save the date over a printed one, which is permanent from the moment it is posted. ### Can the save the date and the wedding invitation match? Yes. You pick one template and it carries both your save the date and your full invitation in the same typography, colours and motion, in any of 29 languages. Guests recognise the second message as coming from the same wedding, which matters more than it sounds when a save the date arrives eight months before the invitation. ### How do we send a save the date to guests abroad? Exactly the same way you send it to guests down the road — international guests cost nothing extra, arrive instantly, and see the page in their own language automatically. Compared with international postage, which is where a printed save the date budget usually goes wrong, this is the clearest saving digital offers. [Start your save the date](https://pressedlove.com/it/create) A digital save the date is an online card that announces your wedding date months before the formal invitation, sent as a link, a QR code or a WhatsApp message rather than posted. Designing and previewing yours on Pressed Love is free; publishing it is a one-time €49, with no subscription and no per-guest cost. Below: how to send one, what to write, when to send it, and how online save the date cards actually compare with printed ones. ## Digital save the dates, explained The save the date has exactly one job: get your wedding date into your guests' calendars before anything else claims that weekend. It is not the invitation. It carries no schedule, no dress code and no RSVP — those all arrive later, on the full invitation, once you have confirmed them. A digital save the date does that job on the device people actually check. Instead of a card that has to be designed, proofed, printed, addressed and posted to every household, you publish a page and share the link. On Pressed Love that page is animated rather than static: it opens with your names, the date and a single line of message, in the same typography and colours as the invitation that will follow. Because it is a live webpage and not an image file, it stays sharp on every screen size, it can be corrected after you send it, and it is legible to guests who read in another language — from Essential (€175) the published page supports 29 languages and defaults to the guest's own device language. The phrase “save the date online free” turns up constantly in search, so it is worth being precise about what is free here. Building your save the date, trying different templates, previewing the finished page on your own phone and sharing that preview with your partner costs nothing and needs no card details. Publishing — making the real link live so guests can open it — starts at €49, paid once. That same project then becomes your full wedding invitation with RSVP tracking, so the €49 is not a save-the-date-only fee. See [what each tier includes](https://pressedlove.com/it/pricing). ## How to send a save the date online The whole flow takes about twenty minutes. 1. **Pick a template.** Browse the [template gallery](https://pressedlove.com/it/templates) and choose the one you want to live with for the next year — the save the date and the invitation share it. 2. **Add names, date and place.** Both full names, the date, and the town or region. Keep the message to one line. 3. **Preview it on your own phone.** Free, in any language. Send the preview to your partner and one honest friend before you publish. 4. **Publish.** One-time payment from €49; the link goes live immediately and you keep lifetime access to edit it. 5. **Share it.** One link for a group chat, a QR code for a family dinner, or an individual link per household so you can see who has opened it. The per-household option is the one couples underestimate. Sending each family their own link means you know who has actually seen the date, which is the difference between chasing everyone eight months later and chasing the four households who never opened it. [Start building yours](https://pressedlove.com/it/create). ## Online save the date cards vs printed Printed save the dates are lovely and most of their cost is invisible until the quotes arrive: design, printing, envelopes, and postage that multiplies for every guest living abroad. Here is the honest comparison.
Digital save the datePrinted save the date
CostOne-time, from €49, any number of guestsPer card plus postage, per household
Guests abroadNo extra cost, arrives instantlyInternational postage, 1–3 weeks
Lead timeSame day2–4 weeks for proofing and print
Fixing a mistakeEdit the page, everyone sees the correctionReprint and repost
Adding a late guestSend another link, no costMinimum print run, or hand-write one
Languages29, chosen automatically per guestOne, or a separate print run
Keepsake on the fridgeNo — a link and a calendar entryYes, this is the real argument for paper
Knowing who saw itPer-guest links show opensYou find out at the invitation stage
A reasonable compromise, if the tactile object matters to you: send the save the date digitally, where formality is lowest and postage is most wasteful, and keep the printed piece for the invitation. The full cost breakdown is on [why digital](https://pressedlove.com/it/why-digital), and the longer argument is in [digital vs paper wedding invitations](https://pressedlove.com/it/blog/digital-vs-paper-wedding-invitations). ## Save the date wording Save the date wording is short by design — five or six lines at most. Copy any of these, swap in your names and edit until it sounds like you rather than like stationery.
Tone or situationWording
ClassicSave the date — Anna Rossi & Marco De Luca are getting married on 15 August 2026 in Lake Como, Italy. Invitation to follow.
FormalPlease save the date for the marriage of Anna Maria Rossi and Marco De Luca, Saturday the fifteenth of August, two thousand twenty-six, Lake Como. A formal invitation will follow.
Warm and simpleWe're getting married! Anna & Marco, 15 August 2026, Lake Como. We'd love you there — details to come.
PlayfulShe said yes. He cried. Save 15 August 2026 — Anna & Marco, Lake Como.
Destination weddingSave the date — and pack a bag. Anna & Marco are marrying in Lake Como, Italy on 15 August 2026. Travel and accommodation details to follow, so you have plenty of time to plan.
Multi-day celebrationSave the weekend: 14–16 August 2026, Lake Como. Anna & Marco are getting married, and we'd love you with us for all three days.
Long engagement, venue not bookedAnna & Marco — 15 August 2026, somewhere in northern Italy. The date is set, the rest is coming. Save the day.
Intimate weddingWe're keeping it small — which means you are one of the few. Anna & Marco, 15 August 2026, Lake Como. Invitation to follow.
Second marriageAfter a good many years of practice, we're getting it right. Anna & Marco, 15 August 2026, Lake Como. Please save the date.
Adults-only daySave the date — Anna & Marco, 15 August 2026, Lake Como. An adults-only celebration; full details, including recommended childcare, to follow.
Religious ceremonyWith the blessing of our families, Anna Rossi and Marco De Luca will be married on 15 August 2026 at Santa Maria, Lake Como. Please save the date.
Bilingual householdsSave the date · Riservate la data — Anna & Marco, 15.08.2026, Lago di Como. (On a published page each guest simply sees their own language.)
Sent by WhatsAppWe have a date! 15 August 2026, Lake Como. Here's our save the date — open it when you have a second, and keep the weekend free. 💛
Very shortAnna & Marco. 15.08.2026. Lake Como. Save the date.
When you reach the full invitation, the wording gets considerably longer and the etiquette matters more — there are eighty-plus examples in [wedding invitation wording examples](https://pressedlove.com/it/blog/wedding-invitation-wording-examples). ## When to send your save the dates Send save the dates **6–8 months** before a local wedding and **9–12 months** before a destination wedding, a holiday-weekend date or a multi-day celebration. The full invitation follows 6–8 weeks before the day (10–12 weeks for destination). Two rules make the difference. First, do not send until the date and venue are genuinely locked — a save the date you have to retract costs more goodwill than one sent a month late. Second, if any meaningful number of guests will be flying, aim for the earlier end of the window: they are booking annual leave and flights against your date, and those decisions get made a long way out. The detailed month-by-month timeline is in [when to send save the dates](https://pressedlove.com/it/blog/when-to-send-save-the-dates), and the full stationery schedule through to the RSVP deadline is in [when to send wedding invitations](https://pressedlove.com/it/blog/when-to-send-wedding-invitations). ## What to include on a save the date Keep it to five things: - **Both names** — full names for a formal wedding, first names for everything else - **The date** — written unambiguously, since 08/15 and 15/08 mean different things in different countries - **The location** — town, region or country is enough; the venue address belongs on the invitation - **“Invitation to follow”** — this single line stops guests treating the save the date as the invitation and RSVPing early - **A travel flag, if relevant** — one line telling guests it is a destination or multi-day wedding so they budget accordingly What to leave off: the RSVP, the schedule, the dress code, the gift fund, the venue address, and anything you are not yet certain of. All of that arrives with the full invitation, where guests can respond, tell you their dietary requirements, and be sorted into a [seating chart](https://pressedlove.com/it/seating-chart) that updates as replies come in. Adding it eight months early only invites questions you cannot answer yet. ## Sending save the dates by WhatsApp WhatsApp is where most digital save the dates are actually delivered, because it is the one channel almost every guest checks daily. Send each household its own link with a short personal line above it — that combination reads as a message from you rather than a forward, and it is the reason per-guest links tend to get opened when a group-chat blast does not. Two practical notes. Older relatives who do not use WhatsApp should get the same link by SMS or email, and one or two should get a phone call as well; the link is identical, so nobody sees a lesser version. And when you send the full invitation months later, send it through the same channel from the same design — recognition does a lot of work when the previous message was in January. The mechanics, including message templates and delivery tracking, are covered on [WhatsApp wedding invitations](https://pressedlove.com/it/whatsapp-wedding-invitation) and in the [WhatsApp sending guide](https://pressedlove.com/it/blog/whatsapp-wedding-invitations-guide). When you are ready, [design your save the date](https://pressedlove.com/it/create) — free to build and preview, one-time €49 to publish, and the same project carries straight through to your wedding invitation. --- [Site-wide AI corpus](https://pressedlove.com/llms.txt)