Save the Date Maker
Pick a wedding palette, add your names and your date, and download the card — free, no watermark, no sign-up.
Full resolution, no watermark, nothing added. Post it, print it, or send it on WhatsApp.
You've announced the date. Now you have to send the invitation.
A save-the-date is a picture — it can't take an RSVP, hold a guest list, or tell you who is coming. The wedding invitation does: one page for every event, a link with each guest's own name on it, and replies with meal choice and dietary notes landing on your dashboard as they arrive. Build it free and see the whole thing before you pay.
Build the invitation — free, no sign-up See what's includedHow do I make a save-the-date card for free?
Type both names and your wedding date, pick one of eighteen wedding palettes, choose a lettering style and a frame, then download the PNG. The whole card is drawn inside your browser — there is no upload, no account, no watermark, and no limit on how many you make.
That last part is worth saying plainly, because it is where most free save-the-date makers stop being free.
Why "free" save-the-date makers usually are not
The common pattern online is a design tool that lets you build the card and then puts its own name on it. You get the layout and the fonts, and the download arrives with a logo in the corner or a "made with" line along the bottom. Removing it is the paid plan. So the free version means posting somebody's advertising in the middle of your own wedding announcement.
The other pattern is the account wall: the card is genuinely free, but you cannot download it without handing over an email address that then goes into a marketing sequence for the next eighteen months.
This tool has neither. The PNG that lands in your downloads folder is exactly what you designed, at full resolution, with nothing added — and you never typed an email address to get it.
Nothing you type leaves your device
The card is painted onto an HTML canvas in your own browser. Your names, your date, and your venue are never sent to our servers or anyone else's, are never logged, and are gone when you close the tab.
You do not have to take our word for it: turn off your internet connection and make the card anyway. It still works, because there is nothing to send.
The palettes are real wedding palettes
The eighteen colour schemes here are not generic gradients. They are the palettes our wedding invitation pages are built from — Classic, Blush, Rosewater & Wine, Botanical, Dusty Blue, Navy & Gold, Terracotta, Midnight, Noir, Royal, Emerald & Amber, Deep Teal & Gold and the rest.
That matters more than it sounds. A save-the-date goes out months before the invitation, and the two are the first two things your guests see of your wedding. Picking "Emerald & Amber" here and picking it again when you build the invitation means they arrive looking like one wedding rather than two unrelated designs.
Arabic is set properly, not translated
Type Arabic names and three things change at once: the names are set in an Arabic calligraphic face rather than a Latin display font stretched over Arabic letters, the layout runs right-to-left, and the date is printed in Arabic.
This is the detail almost every international card maker gets wrong. An Arabic name in a Latin script face falls back to whatever UI font the device has, which is the typographic equivalent of writing a wedding announcement in Helvetica. Mixed cards work too — one Arabic name and one English name each get the face they should have.
Which size should you choose?
- Post — 1080×1350. Instagram and Facebook portrait. The largest a feed post can be before it gets cropped.
- Square — 1080×1080. Instagram square, and the safest shape for sending in a WhatsApp chat where a tall image gets letterboxed.
- Story — 1080×1920. Instagram stories and WhatsApp status, full bleed.
- Print — 1500×2100. 5×7 inches at 300dpi, the standard save-the-date trim and the resolution a print shop will ask you for.
Each one is drawn at that exact pixel size rather than scaled up from a preview, so the lettering stays sharp — including on the print size, where a scaled-up card would show it immediately.
How to make a save-the-date, step by step
- Type both names and the wedding date. A city or venue and a closing line such as "Invitation to follow" are optional.
- Pick a palette. Eighteen wedding schemes, light and dark.
- Pick the lettering and a frame. Script, Engraved, Romantic or Modern, inside a hairline, double rule, corner marks, or an arch.
- Choose the size for wherever you are posting or printing it.
- Download the PNG. Clean, full resolution, no watermark.
What comes after the save-the-date?
The invitation — and that is a different job. A save-the-date is a picture: it tells people to hold the day and it can do nothing else. It cannot collect a reply, it cannot hold a guest list, and it cannot tell you how many people are coming to dinner.
When you are ready for that, the wedding invitation and RSVP page picks up where this leaves off: one page for every event of the wedding, an RSVP that asks what your caterer will ask, a guest list, and a link with each guest's own name already on it so nobody has to hunt through a shared page to reply. You build the whole thing free and see it full-size before you pay anything, and it is one price for unlimited guests, paid once.
If you liked the palette you picked here, it is waiting for you there under the same name.
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What you get
Free with no watermark
The card downloads clean — no logo across the corner, no 'made with' footer, no locked frames. What you design is exactly what saves to your device, at full resolution.
Eighteen real wedding palettes
The same palettes our wedding invitations are built from — Classic, Blush, Midnight, Emerald & Amber, Wine & Blush and more — so the save-the-date you post today and the invitation you send later look like the same wedding.
Arabic and English, properly set
Type Arabic names and the card switches to Arabic calligraphic faces, right-to-left, with the date printed in Arabic too. Not a Latin card with Arabic letters dropped into it.
Sized for where you are actually posting it
Instagram portrait, square, story, or 5×7in at 300dpi for a printer. Each one is drawn at its native size, so nothing is stretched, cropped, or re-compressed on upload.
Nothing is uploaded
The card is drawn on a canvas inside your browser. Your names, your date, and your venue never reach our servers or anyone else's — you can turn off your internet connection and it still works.
Four lettering styles and five frames
Script, Engraved, Romantic, or Modern lettering, with a hairline, double rule, corner marks, or an arch around it — the typographic choices a wedding stationer would offer, not a generic font dropdown.
Frequently asked questions
Is this save-the-date maker really free?
Yes — completely free, with no watermark, no sign-up, and no limit on how many cards you make. The card is drawn in your browser, so it costs us nothing to run and there is no paid tier hiding the good frames or the good palettes.
Is there a watermark on the downloaded card?
No. The PNG is clean — no logo, no corner stamp, no 'made with' line. This is the thing most free save-the-date makers get wrong: they give you the design and then brand it, so you either post their advertising to your own wedding announcement or pay to remove it.
Do I need an account to download my save-the-date?
No. There is no sign-up, no email, and no account. Open the tool, type your names, download the card. Nothing is stored and nothing is sent to us.
What size should a save-the-date be for Instagram?
Use the Post size (1080×1350) for a feed post and the Story size (1080×1920) for a story or a WhatsApp status. Both are Instagram's own native dimensions, so the image is not re-scaled on upload and the lettering stays crisp. Square (1080×1080) is the safest choice if you are also sending it in a WhatsApp chat.
Can I print the save-the-date card?
Yes. The Print size is 1500×2100 pixels, which is 5×7 inches at 300dpi — the standard save-the-date card trim and the resolution a print shop asks for. Download that size and send the PNG straight to a printer.
Does it work in Arabic?
Yes, and properly. Type Arabic names and the card sets them in an Arabic calligraphic face rather than a Latin display font, lays the text out right-to-left, and prints the date in Arabic. Mixed cards work too — an Arabic name and an English name each get the right face.
When should we send a save-the-date?
The usual guidance is six to eight months before the wedding, and up to a year ahead if guests will need to travel or book time off. The save-the-date only has to carry your names, the date, and roughly where — the full details go out later with the invitation.
What is the difference between a save-the-date and an invitation?
A save-the-date is an announcement: it tells people to hold the day, and it is a picture you post or send. An invitation is the thing that actually invites them — it carries the schedule, the venue, and the RSVP, and it needs to collect replies. This tool makes the announcement. For the invitation, the wedding website builder gives you a page with RSVP, a guest list, and a link with each guest's own name on it.
Can guests RSVP to a save-the-date?
Not to this one — it is an image, and an image cannot collect a reply. That is deliberate: a save-the-date is not supposed to ask for an answer yet. When you are ready to collect replies, meal choices, and dietary notes, build the wedding invitation page, which does all of that on one link.
Are my names and details stored anywhere?
No. Everything you type stays in your browser and is drawn onto a canvas on your own device. Nothing is uploaded, nothing is logged, and closing the tab discards it.
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