Drawn And Animated By Hand
Bespoke Digital & Animated Save The Dates
Hand illustrated digital save the dates and animated save the dates, drawn from scratch for weddings and celebrations around the world.
Currently Booking 2027 & 2028
Made For The Occasion
Designed Around Each Celebration
A digital save the date is the first glimpse your guests have of the celebration to come. We create each one as an original piece of artwork, illustrating your venue, destination or story by hand before bringing it to life through gentle animation.
No templates. No stock artwork. Every animated save the date is created for one celebration.
Ornate Scrolling Save The Date
A bespoke scrolling save the date designed to unfold gradually on screen, with ornate antique gold frames revealing the artwork and details in sequence. The continuous movement creates a sense of discovery and allows the celebration to be introduced one moment at a time.
St Tropez
For a fiftieth birthday in St Tropez, we created a bespoke animated save the date, hand illustrated and brought to life through colour and movement before being sent directly to guests.
What Is A Digital Save The Date?
A digital save the date is an alternative to a traditional printed card, designed to be sent directly to your guests by email, WhatsApp or private link.
Ours begin as original illustration. Your venue, destination, landscape or another detail from the celebration is drawn by hand and then animated to create movement across the screen.
Everything in the artwork is created for one celebration, whether that is a destination wedding, a milestone birthday or a weekend away with everyone you love. The design is shaped by the setting, style and atmosphere of the event, so the illustration, colour, typography and movement all feel as though they belong to the same world.
Most animated save the dates are supplied as both a GIF and MP4, ready to send by message or email. Others are created as an interactive page with its own private link, allowing guests to open the animation and continue through to your wedding website.
Telling The Story In Stages
The First Glimpse Of The Celebration
We work closely with the couple and, where involved, the wedding planner to create a design that tells their story and gives guests their first glimpse of the celebration ahead.
At the save the date stage, we reveal only what needs to be known. The most important details are held back for the invitation, allowing the story to unfold gradually as the wedding approaches.
The save the date introduces the world. The invitation reveals more of it. The celebration itself completes the story.
Each stage gives guests the right information at the right moment, while keeping something still to discover.
Why We Animate
Why A Save The Date Should Move
We live through screens now, and the way people experience a beautiful thing has changed with them. A still image can be scrolled past. Something that moves asks you to stop.
We treat animation as another material, alongside paper, ink and texture. A boat crossing a bay, a map drawing itself, light shifting across the water. The movement is gentle and considered, never there simply for effect.
Done well, an animated save the date does what fine paper does in the hand. It holds your attention for a moment longer, and it stays in the memory.
Drawn From Scratch
What We Can Illustrate For You
Almost anything that belongs to the celebration. Your wedding venue, drawn in fine line or full colour. The harbour you will arrive by boat into. A ski slope, a vineyard, a city skyline, a favourite street.
Some couples ask us to illustrate the journey itself, with a map tracing the route between the places that matter. Others want the view from a window, the house where they met or a detail from the destination.
We work from photographs and architectural references, drawing every element by hand so the finished piece belongs only to you.
Drawn Line By Line
What Your Animated Save The Date Includes
Original Hand Drawn Illustration
Your artwork is drawn from scratch, whether that is your wedding venue, a harbour, a ski slope, a vineyard or a city you love. Nothing is taken from a library.
Bespoke Animation
Movement is added by hand: a boat crossing the bay, a map drawing itself, an illustrated design scrolling across the screen, curtains moving in the breeze or light shifting across the water. The aim is life, not spectacle.
GIF And MP4 Files
You receive both formats, so your digital save the date can be sent by email or WhatsApp and viewed easily on a phone, with nothing for guests to download or sign into.
Your Wording
Your names, wedding date, destination and any wording you would like included are set in calligraphy or typography chosen to complement the artwork.
Three Rounds Of Revisions
Three rounds of revisions are included, allowing us to refine the illustration, animation and wording before your final files are created.
Matching Wedding Stationery
Your illustration can continue into your printed save the dates, bespoke wedding invitations, wedding website design and on the day stationery, creating one visual identity across the celebration.
From Enquiry To Sending
How Your Digital Save The Date Is Made
Most bespoke animated save the dates take three to four weeks from approval to final artwork, with proofs shared for approval throughout the process.
Tell Us About Your Wedding Or Celebration
Send us a short enquiry with your date, destination, venue and the celebration you have in mind.
We Review Your Enquiry
We review your enquiry first. If the project feels like a good fit, we will send our detailed Discovery Questionnaire before preparing a considered proposal for your digital save the date.
We Illustrate And Animate
Your artwork is illustrated by hand before animation and movement are added. You approve the design throughout the process.
Send Your Save The Date
Your final animation is supplied as a GIF and MP4, ready to send to guests by WhatsApp or email.
Digital & Animated Save The Date Questions
What is a digital save the date?
A digital save the date is a wedding announcement designed to be sent electronically rather than through the post. It usually includes your names, wedding date and location and can be shared by WhatsApp, email or private link. Our digital save the dates are individually illustrated and animated rather than created from templates.
What is an animated save the date?
An animated save the date uses movement to bring a digital wedding announcement to life. This might be a boat travelling across Lake Como, a map tracing a journey, an ornate design scrolling across the screen, light moving across the water or illustrated elements appearing in sequence. Each of our animations begins with original artwork drawn specifically for the celebration.
Can you create a digital save the date for a destination wedding?
Yes. Many of our commissions are created for destination weddings, where the location becomes part of the artwork. We can illustrate your wedding venue, landscape, coastline, city or journey and use animation to introduce the destination to your guests.
Can you illustrate our wedding venue?
Yes. Wedding venue illustration is one of the starting points for many of our animated save the dates. We work from photographs and architectural references to create an original illustration of the venue before adding movement.
How much does a bespoke digital save the date cost?
The price depends on the amount of original illustration and animation involved. Send us a short enquiry first and, if the project feels like a good fit, we will guide you through the next steps before preparing a considered proposal.
How long does an animated save the date take?
Most animations take three to four weeks from approval to final artwork. We recommend beginning early, particularly for destination weddings where guests may need additional time to arrange travel.
When should we send a digital save the date?
Most couples send a save the date several months before the wedding, and earlier for destination weddings where guests may need to arrange travel and accommodation.
What files do we receive?
You receive both a GIF and MP4 version of your animated save the date, ready to send by WhatsApp or email.
Can a digital save the date link to our wedding website?
Yes. We can also create an interactive digital save the date hosted on its own link. Guests tap to open the animation and can then continue directly through to your wedding website.
Can you design save the dates for events other than weddings?
Yes. We create bespoke animated save the dates for milestone birthdays, anniversaries, destination celebrations and other private events.
Can the illustration be used on our printed wedding stationery?
Yes. Your artwork can continue across your wedding invitations, printed stationery, wedding website and details created for the wedding itself, becoming part of a wider wedding branding system that gives the entire celebration one visual language.
The First Thing Your Guests See
Enquire About Your Digital Save The Date
Tell us about your wedding or celebration and we will review your enquiry before guiding you through the next steps.
Every animated save the date is illustrated and animated individually, so we accept a limited number of commissions each year.
Currently Booking 2027 & 2028