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For a destination wedding I would send the STD's as soon as you have confirmed the place and date. People often have to submit holiday requests early.
Invites I'd follow the usual 6-8 weeks ahead of time.
The earlier the better if you want people to be able to afford to take the time off work to come. A year in advance makes sense.
Now you have me worried! I won't be sending our save the dates out until 10.5 months before the wedding :s
Can I ask a spin off question?
If you don't send out the invites until the standard 1.5-2 months out period, when do you tell people the name of the resort so they can book? Do you put that info on the STD?
In a case where people have to arrange travel I'd put it on the STD and although I am generally anti wedsite, it can be useful for DWs.
I'd send your STDs out as soon as you have your venue booked and room block information.
Put that on your wedsite as well, and I would send your invites just a couple of weeks earlier than the standard 6-8 weeks, so you have time to finish up tasks like placecards and favors with time to spare.
Good luck!
The Mayan Riviera.
Its pretty inexpensive to get to for my guests and that is one reason why I'm choosing it. Plus the resort I've chosen, Ive been to before and I know the set up and the food quality etc. Helpful when planning for a place you can't really go to before hand.
Aruba or St. Lucia would be amazing! We are thinking about one or the other possibly for a vacation this October.
Thank you. I will put the resort down on the magnet then maybe insert a little pamplet on the hotel complex in the envelope.
I am not doing a block as there are 5 hotels within the resort that are different levels of costs and I want guests to have the freedom to choose.
I sent mine out months in advance and asked for RSVP's a month in advance. Screw protocol. People needed to plan. Our engagement was short, so I thought sending STDs and then a month later sending invites was wasteful and would even confuse many of our guests as to why they were invited twice. (Where I'm from STDs aren't "done".) Many of my vendors needed final counts by 3 weeks prior, so I had 1 week to pin down the non-RSVPers.
I would say if you can spread the word that you are doing a DW, this will at least give people the heads up.
For most DW weddings (of the all inclusive variety) you will be required to have a minimum number of people book before you can secure that rate. It's really just like any other large group vacation, 10 people constitutes a group so you will need 10 people or 5 couples to book to make sure your discount is locked in. I haven't done this myself but this is how it was last year when I was trying to book a large group vacation.
A wedding website is probably the best place to put all the booking information.
@Oneeleven: Be careful with having your guests stay at other resorts. Most resorts (if not all) require that a minimum of 80% of your guests are staying at the resort where your wedding is taking place. If not they cancel the wedding. Obviously if you're doing the wedding off the resort this doesn't matter.
@Ms. Martian: I had no idea of this sort of restriction. Nothing like that existed for ours (which was not in the Carribbean). The one DW that I went to in the Carribbean was at a resort WAY far out of our price range. I had no idea that we might have been "supposed" to stay there.
There are five hotels within this resort. They are just different levels of poshness. But even the least expensive is still 4 star and very nice. I thought this would be good as we have a few young families coming as well as two parents who are retired and not rich.
But you can all go to the same beaches and pools etc. And they would count against our wedding head count, even tho FI and I are going to stay at the highest level property.
@Oneeleven: Nice! Which resort? And are you getting people to book through a travel agent that has everything arranged? Or just letting them do it on their own? Anyone else know what's best for that?
@Oneeleven: That's good! I was supposed to go to a friend's wedding last year and I tried to do just that, stay at the one of the other hotels/resorts under the same chain but apparently I would not have been included in the head count. I wonder if I was just misinformed because I have a feeling that we're talking about the same chain...
@Melini: I think it is a restriction with most resorts, if you look on their website and at the wedding packages it usually says 80%. I know that I saw it on the Riu and Melia websites. Maybe it's just not as common as I thought? I guess I just assumed that if 2 major chains did it that most do this.
we had ours booked bout a yr and a half early and had all the details so we gave them that amount of notice :) lets them save and organise time off work etc
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FI and I are looking around at some different resorts in Aruba and St. Lucia for our wedding. It probably wont be for at least another year, but I am wondering how early do you send out invites? STDs? What's the protocol on a destination wedding for this? How much notice do you need to give people?
Thanks Bees!