When to send invites?

I will say I did think the same to send out the invites way early 9 months in advance giving 3 months to reply back and 6 months to plan out the final count and all details. Don't make the same mistake as I did as the lesson is learned later on. Your guests will lose the invitation and ask you again to send it through WhatsApp or social media source.

Send them out 4 months if you feel that is a good time instead and ample to time to respond within 2 months time to get your final count. I was also super organized and ready to get things out without realizing what may not occur.

I think its too early for actual invites but what you can do is do an e save the date or e invitation and that way people are aware of your wedding date as they will be coming from far and have to book time off work, plan babysitters, get flights hotels etc they need time to save as well.

I agree with others, send invites at the earliest 6 months ahead of time.

I'd also recommend save the dates, mostly because of the family on the East Coast. You don't even have to do paper, you can send them electronically! If you do save the dates, you can probably put off the actual invitations until 4 months.

Definitely don't send the actual invitations too early!! People will forget/lose the RSVP card lol.

As the others said, I would wait 6 months at the earliest. We're did save the dates and we are sending our invitations out within a couple weeks which will be about 4 months before the wedding.

If you want to save on save the dates maybe just send them to the people that will have to travel across country? Save the dates aren't mandatory and every guest who ends up getting invited doesn't need to get one. I know that our guest list fluctuated a bit and a few people were added post sending out the save the dates. I got my save the dates from Vistaprint with a 50% off coupon. they have a lot of sales and deals so I would browse around to see if you like anything from them and then sign up for their mailing list to get coupon codes.

Depends on the type of person you are - I don't have a problem telling people that there wasn't enough room or due to cost we weren't able to invite everybody, but not everybody is like that. Plus imo it is ruder to ask if they are invited than to tell them no.

I would say ya, that way if you do get no's you could send out another set of invites but at the same time give them lots of notice

If you do STD's even on a post of FB make sure you include the city/province you will be getting married in so that they are aware of not just the date but that they will need to save money to travel.

I agree with Tori - it's too soon to send out your invitations just yet. I definitely love Save the Dates, it gives everyone a "heads up" about the wedding.

I'm getting married next July, and I sent out my Save the Dates a year in advance. I actually don't recommend doing it that early - we had so many elderly people not understanding and thinking it was an invite with no RSVP, or wedding details. I don't like electronic Save the Dates, I prefer mailing something to people instead. We did magnets which everyone loved because they can put it on their fridges and not forget or lose it.

Since it's September, and you're getting married next August, any time now is safe to send the Save the Dates - just be sure to put the year on it in like block, bold letters. I don't know how many calls my in laws got with people saying "we're sorry we missed the wedding" (thinking our wedding was last year, not next year).

I think you could send your invites anywhere between 4-6 months from your wedding date. Determine when your venue needs your head count by, and give yourself some wiggle room to chase people for RSVPs.

Hi Adriana,

You could possibly email or send electronic save the dates if you want to save money in the budget - totally understandable that you want to ensure those that are travelling have the info as early as possible, but in my opinion, it's a little early to send the actual invites. Many may be lost, RSVPs forgotten, etc., if you send them too early.

I wouldn't send the invites out just yet - but maybe you could post a picture online with a "Save the Date". It's no secret to those who you aren't inviting that you are engaged and getting married so I would be fine doing that.

Otherwise I would say that I sent out the first round of invitations (had 2 sets to send after we received some no's) at the 6 month mark and even that was pretty early.