I'm trying to figure out when a good time to send out save the dates is. I keep seeing anywhere from 3 months to 1 year in advance.
I read somewhere online that a "destination wedding" is any wedding that requires the bride and groom stay in a hotel (as in, its too far away from home to travel there and go back home). With that definition, our wedding is a destination wedding (about 3 hours from home). Everyone who is coming to my wedding is going to have to stay in a hotel so I want to make sure I give everyone who we really want to be there enough time to make travel arrangements.
What do you ladies think? Have any of you send out save the dates yet?
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Re: Save the dates?
Lesa, your rsvp need only be two weeks before your wedding date. The absolute earliest you should ever send out your invites is 10 weeks, and that's for a true destination wedding. 8 weeks until the wedding day is plenty of time.
Once again, slow your roll. Good timeline for your STD.
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With a destination wedding, it is also very common to have an RSVP date earlier than 2 weeks. The reason for that is because it is SO hard to determine how many guests will come. At home, you can expect 3/4 of your guests to show, but a DW can be anywhere from 5% to 100%. It's REALLY hard to plan for things like cake servings, favors, rehearsal dinner options, etc so it's perfectly OK to ask for an earlier RSVP date that correlates with when your caterer/baker/venue needs your final head count. Our RSVP date will be about 8 weeks before the wedding as well, because we need final counts in to our venue 6 weeks ahead of time (so they know which room to put us in and what our minimum will be, based on which room we have.) I figure that considering people have to buy plane tickets, make hotel/rental car reservations, and take time off work, they'll know 8 weeks in advance whether or not they're coming.
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