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Electronic Save the Dates?

posted 3 years ago in Beehive

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Bumble
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Mrs. DG July 18, 2009 Seattle/Tahoe

Has anyone else sent out an email save the date? I designed one through Pingg, and now I've discovered that some email programs see the save the date as spam.

If you have used an electronic system, what did you use? If you used pingg, did it get seen as spam for some of your invitees? I'm getting ready to create an html file to put in the body of an email, but that just doesn't seem as nice.

I worked hard on these and I want to make sure that everyone gets them!

3 years ago

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Newbee

littlebigfoot08 15/05/2009 Singapore

I used photoshop to design our save the dates, and then used microsoft outlook to send the e-card to our gmail account, from which the cards were despatched to our guests. I also added a little line at the bottom of the e-card to say something like "if the image does not display properly, please click here". If you click "here", you will be directed to our flickr page where we uploaded our std e-card (in case people dont see our image via email)

For inserting , check out Mrs Daffodil's DIY here - http://www.weddingbee.com/2007/12/17/electronic-save-the-dates-for-dummies/

That precious tutorial saved me a lot of trouble :)

good luck!

3 years ago

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Blushing bee

MrsPomegranate June 15, 2008 MD

The content of the email is probably not as big of a problem as the number of people receiving the email. Most email programs mark a message as spam if the distribution list is over a certain limit. (Most spammers send a message to several hundred people at a time). Do you have a large guest list? I would suggest researching the number of recipients allowed by most email systems and break your distribution list into groups.... sending the same message to smaller groups might help.

I sent electronic save the dates and it worked out fine. Our guest list was small so the email went out to about 40 addresses.

3 years ago

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Bumble
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Mrs. DG July 18, 2009 Seattle/Tahoe

Thanks so much for the info...

We initially loaded in email addresses for about 60 unique addresses. I tried paring it down to 20 and still had problems, especially with Yahoo mail. I've spoken to the folks at Pingg and at Yahoo, and neither know why our Save the Date (I just can't say STD!) is detected as spam. You're right Pom, it's not content, it's something else... but nobody can figure it out.

At this point, I may try using regular email...

3 years ago

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Sugar bee

suzanno 7/12/08 Richland, WA

For some email accounts, the sending address has to be in the recipiant's address book, or the email is automatically rejected as spam. That's why when you sign up for email updates from a website, you always get the little message to add them to your address book. Yahoo mail may be like that.