Thanks Patrick. I looked into creating a custom timer job for this and/or a looping workflow. I read somewhere that creating a custom timer job was less taxing on the server though. Both require custom code (something I am trying to avoid for such a small task)...maybe good learning opportunity for me at a later date. Throughout the life of my form I have 8 or 9 button changes which advance the status of the form so for now I will compare my static date to today's date with each button click then kick off a reminder email notification if appropriate. Of course if the form gets ignored, then the date could come and the reminder becomes moot.