Palm Springs save the date

A save the date for a Palm Springs wedding should look like Palm Springs. This one uses a hand-drawn sketch of the setting rather than a stock photograph or a generic palm frond clip-art, which is what most desert templates fall back on.

What you get

• An editable Canva template, front and back
• A print-ready 5x7 layout with correct bleed
• The Canva Basics guide, with video walkthroughs for editing, resizing and downloading
• Instant download after purchase

Editing it

Open the Canva link, replace the text with your names, date and location, and download. Most people are done in under ten minutes. You can print at home, at a local shop, or through an online printer — the printing guide covers paper weight and sizing.

When to send it

For a destination wedding, save the dates go out eight to twelve months ahead — earlier than the six months you would allow for a local wedding, because guests are booking flights and hotel blocks. Palm Springs in particular fills up around festival weekends, so give people room.

Wording

If you are stuck on what to write, the wording and etiquette guide has destination save the date wording you can copy directly into the template.