no go for e-vites

I thought I stumbled upon a brilliant idea.

Why not send "Save the date" e-cards to our friends? That's what they do in US so why not do it here?

I happily search for e-cards. Found a site. Registered and found one nice card. Sent it to myself and previewed it. I didn't really like it cuz of the little things like formatting, fonts etc. It's the finnicky 'artistic' side of me... so I didn't send that out in the end which worked out well.

I spoke to D and told him about the brilliant plan, barely containing my enthusiasm.

Me: Why don't we send out "Save the date" cards for our friends? That way they can then set aside the time in their schedule since we can't send the invites out yet.
D: No. It's rude to do so.
Me: Why?
D: For some people, especially the older folks, they will take offence and won't even come.
Me: But it's for our friends.
D: I'm a traditionalist.

So... no e-vites for you guys. I'm just wondering if D would have been freaked out if the conversation started like this:

Me: I just did the most brilliant thing (smiling smugly).
D: What is it?
Me: I sent out "Save the date" e-vites to our friends (waiting for affirmation of brilliance and a pat on the back, expecting outpouring of praises and compliments).
D: You did what?!!! (in shock and tearing his hair out)

Haha. It's time like these that I'm glad I'm finnicky.