A wedding is a very important event in your life. You spend a great deal of your time and resources letting your friends, relatives, colleagues and family members of that occasion. At times you may send them invitations too early that they need to be kept reminded, rest they forget. Save the date reminders is one of the most commonly used means of keeping your guests reminded of a wedding ceremony. The method has been used for a long time in wedding traditions. While engulfed in preparations and planning of the most perfect occasion in your life, it is considered a good wedding etiquette to give your guests some reminders of the upcoming event.

Traditionally, save the date cards were in printed papers. Today, with the current awareness on eco-friendly practices and recycling culture, printed save the date reminded are going extinct. Couples and wedding planners opting eco-friendly weddings are going digital or electronic way away from the traditional paper save the date reminders. More people have turned to computer emails, cell phone message services and other electronic media to keep their guests reminded of the wedding ceremonies to come.

Besides the "green" environment factor, people have embraced e-reminders due to its low cost and efficiency. Printing reminders is by far much expensive compared to the electronic. In addition, you are definitely going to waste a lot of your time and energy getting your reminders designed, printed and distributed. With the electronic reminders, all this is done within a few minutes.

However, if you are one of those couples who would love to keep to the traditional save the date reminders, you can have them printed on recycled printing papers. There are several wedding services providers or retailers who have the "green" papers and can print your reminders in repurposed printing papers. They are also likely to advise you on how to have the paper reminders collected and taken back for recycling after use.

You can still have an eco-friendly wedding event without having your save the date reminders sent through the emails and other electronic means. You can send some small gifts to your guests with remind messages printed on their packages. Such gifts can include souvenir candles, love dolls or even romantic books. People like gifts. Giving gifts with reminder messages can be a great way of reminding a wide range of your guests the upcoming ceremony, as it is most likely going to get their attention firmly on it.

Sending save the date reminders through an email is just brilliant and cost effective to your wedding budget. You can use a wide variety of design software tools to create a fascinating piece of save the date reminder. You can use some flash animations, artistic fonts and other attractive graphic effects to come up with a good e-reminder. Thereafter, you can distribute them to numerous guests at the same time. Despite some critics considering e-reminders tacky, there is no doubt that they are the way to the future of save the date wedding reminders. However, it is worth to note that not all people can be sent e-reminders since not everybody is into email thing.