Most of my guests live pretty close to Vegas, just a non stop Southwest flight so since Southwest just opened their reservations for November I went ahead and emailed all my guests individually today to let them know to book their flights and to give them our wedding website URL (this is only 10 emails, it's a small group) Since we're getting married Thanksgiving weekend flights are booking up fast.
Turns out this was a great thing to do! My brother immediately RSVPd via the website and sent me copies of his booked flights and hotels for him and his 3 kids 11,21,23. I also had 3 others RSVP or call me and they're making their plans too within an hour! I had contacted each of these VIPs to make sure they could make the date before we set it 6 months ago and there is only one couple that I'm pretty sure won't come, the rest all have contacted me already. I'm an older first time bride so I think a lot of them never thought I'd get married so they won't miss this :-) Gave me boost of confidence to hear from so many people that they are excited about attending!
We had our dream wedding in Las Vegas - 11.29.2014