A digital save the date your guests will actually remember
A beautiful link with a live countdown, send it months in advance, layer the full invitation on top later.
A save the date is the simplest form of digital invitation: a hero photo, the names, the date, the location, and ideally a countdown. Its job is to land in someone's mind months in advance and stay there.
Invitify's wedding templates work beautifully as save the dates because they emphasize exactly those elements. You can publish a save the date version now, names, date, countdown, location, and later expand it into a full invitation with schedule, RSVP, and details, at the same URL.
When to send a digital save the date
Save the dates traditionally go out 6–9 months before a wedding, more for destination events, less for casual gatherings. The digital version has no production lead time, so you can finalize the design and the date independently, usually within a single afternoon.
The advantage of a digital save the date over a paper one is that the link can evolve. Send a stripped-down version with the basics now. Add the schedule six weeks before. Add the RSVP form four weeks before. Same link the whole time, so guests who bookmarked it months ago see updates without you having to send a new one.
Pair the link with a beautiful preview image and a short message in whatever channel you use, text, email, group chat, and you have the modern equivalent of a save-the-date card, with none of the lead time.