Too early to send invitations?

ls100936 · January 2015

Our wedding is September 5th, 2015. Is April too early to send out invitations? Most of the guest list is family members who live 1000+ miles away and need to make flight and hotel arrangements way in advance. We will doing our save-the-dates in February.

Thank you!

Viczaesar · January 2015

ls100936 said:

Our wedding is September 5th, 2015. Is April too early to send out invitations? Most of the guest list is family members who live 1000+ miles away and need to make flight and hotel arrangements way in advance. We will doing our save-the-dates in February.

Thank you!

Yes, that is way too early. Invitations should go out 6-8 weeks before your wedding, definitely not more than 10 weeks before at the absolute earliest. The STDs should give them enough information that they can make travel arrangements in advance.

southernbelle0915 · January 2015

WAY too early. Save the Dates are meant to provide this info to your traveling guests - just make sure you have the city and state plus a link to your website. Then make sure your website is updated with hotel block info and more detailed information. If you have older guests who may not have the internet, just give them a call and let them know about the arrangements.

For your wedding date, you should send invites out between July 11th-July 25th.

fwtx5815 · January 2015

April is definitely too early.

Guests would have to RSVP without having a good idea of what their calendars look like and as a result, some would have to decline when they might have actually been able to make it work, and others might accept and then back out last minute. It would be frustrating for you and inconvenient for them. Plans change.

Send your save the dates, make some phone calls, and get your website in order.

kritter4789 · January 2015

I think thats a bit too early. We also have many guests traveling from far away that need to make arrangements. We sent save the dates about 10 months before the wedding, and just sent our invites this week (Our wedding is in April). I sent them about 10 weeks before the wedding, only because we live about 5 hours away from our location and vendors, so I need to have the final numbers a little sooner than other brides.

mlg78 · January 2015

Are you including a website on the save the dates? If not, you should so you can provide all the information necessary. Don't send invites until the first week of July.

lyndausvi · January 2015

way too early. I got married on Sept 6th. We sent our out the first week of July. RSVPs were due around Aug 26th. That was plenty of time since we sent out the STD in January.

Jessie42613 · January 2015

I don't mean any offense by this, but if I got invited to an event.. any event.. 5 months early, I'd think to myself "I have plenty of time to reply," toss the invitation on the counter, and then 5 months of mail would pile up and it would be forgotten.

I'm not proud of it, but it happens.

Want a quick reply? Invite me to something 6 weeks down the road, with a 3 week window to check yes or no. That shit'll be back out to you in tomorrow's mail.

Maggie0829 · January 2015

Jessie42613 said:

I don't mean any offense by this, but if I got invited to an event.. any event.. 5 months early, I'd think to myself "I have plenty of time to reply," toss the invitation on the counter, and then 5 months of mail would pile up and it would be forgotten.

I'm not proud of it, but it happens.

Want a quick reply? Invite me to something 6 weeks down the road, with a 3 week window to check yes or no. That shit'll be back out to you in tomorrow's mail.

I would also wonder who the heck this couple was and why they felt that their event was so damn important it warranted an invite sent 5 months before.

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