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Are you sending save the dates? If so, when do you plan to send them?
Our wedding is out of state for all of our guests, so I was hoping to send them out early. January would give a good 8 months to book hotel rooms, since room blocks only last up until 2 months before the wedding. Then I saw posts about people regretting sending them early. Our guestlist isn't finalized, so I think we'll have to wait. Just currious when everyone else is sending them. And, when do you think is the latest aprpopriate time to send them? Thanks! :)
We may only be sending out STDs to half of our guests. My FI is French and he says nobody sends STDs there. I need to confirm that with a woman, I think! For our American guests, I'm planning to send them out in January. Almost everyone needs to travel and I'd like to give them plenty of time to reserve their flights.
To answer your question, I think that the 4-month mark is probably the latest it's appropriate to send them out, but the timing really depends on your situation. If you have a small guest list and are hoping that most people will be able to come, I would send them out as early as possible. If the opposite is true, you might want to skip them and just send out invites. Good luck finalizing your guest list!!
I'm getting married in October also! We are planning on sending ours out in Jan. Early Jan. We have about 80 percent of the guests coming from out of town and we are also dealing with his sister getting married three months before us! Hers is in the summer though and have more flexiblity to request off than in October.
I think the lastest time to send them is around 4 months. Just get the guest list finalized and then see.
I think I'll get started in January after the holidays. I think the guest list will be almost final. Those that we are on the fence about might just not get a Save the Date until we can confirm they are on the list.
January sounds like a popular month! That was my hopeful month to send them out. I'm wondering if we should just send it to our closest family members and the bridal party and do everyone else once the guest list is final. I'm just worried about people thinking they are B-listers.
Are you sending them all out at once?
We're also sending out ours in early January--but our list will be finalized by then. With the exception of the plus one's (which we'll just make clear in the actual invite), we'll send save the dates to everyone on our list.
I have a confession to make -- I've already sent ours. My excuse is that half our guests are literally on the other side of the world (Australia) so they need plenty of notice, because it's not like they can just get a flight at the last minute and nip across for the weekend of the wedding!
I'm going to send a bunch of ours out with our Christmas cards. The rest (to those to whom I wouldn't normally send Christmas cards, i.e. my parents' friends) will likely go out in January.
I'm September, but am also thinking January. Probably mid- January after all the holiday dust settles. Don't want them to get mixed up with Holiday cards and thrown away.
We are!!! We're having a DW next November, so we wanted to give our guests tons of time to arrange and book to come with us. We're going to be sending them just before Christmas like @ hergreenapples, they're going out with X-mas cards for those who we usually send them to! They just arrived via UPS yesterday but I wasn't at home to recieve them (stupid work!) Hopefully I can pick them up tomorrow!
We'll be sending ours out at the first of the year. ALL of our guests will be coming from out of town (from a 3 hour drive to a 5 hour plane ride) as we're getting married away from home up in the White Mountains of NH. We're getting married during peak foliage season too...so rooms book up FAST. If people were to call any later than 6 months out they would have trouble finding vacancy anywhere.
We don't have any worries with the guest list because we're having a very small wedding...only about 80 guests or so. So we had our list finalized shortly after we were engaged. Our STD's our ready to go...just waiting until Jan. 1! ;)
I wanted to do a christmas card / STD.... but at this point I'm just going to send them sometime in Dec/January. I'll have a lot of OOT guests though.
We were orginally going to send ours out between Thanksgiving and Christmas but I didn't want them to get lost in the shuffle with all the holiday cards being sent this time of year.
We're planning to send them out in mid-January now... we're moving in early January, so I think we'll put them in the mail once we get settled in the new apartment. We're having an engagement party where about 50% of the wedding was invited, so most people are aware of the date and place and such.
I'm mid October and we are going to send them out by the end of Jan. since my FI's family is out of town, as are all of his guests.
Our wedding is Oct 9, 2010! We are actually sending out our Save-the-Dates inside of Christmas cards we had made with an engagement pic on the front! The pic on the Christmas card was taken at the same time as the pic on the STD but it's a different pose! Our Cards read 'Happy Holidays with Love from The future Mr. & Mrs.!'
We got our STD delivered from minted (I LOVE them) over the Thanksgiving weekend, and are slowly addressing them this week, and will probably mail them out next week. They have our website on them, so we want to finalize most of the site before sending out the STDs, but they will def. be sent before Christmas
Our wedding is August 28, 2010 & we're sending our STD's out in January with a Happy New Years theme. Since we're having a photo booth at our wedding, our STD's will be four frames from a photo booth printed on one 4x6. First frame is me with a blow horn and happy New Year tiara & him with top hat with our sign reading "It's a Happy New Year". The other photos will have Date & Location with fun props of sunglasses, etc. Since we're in a touristy area of San Diego, it will be fun and appropriate to make them into postcards by adhering postcard backing to the photos (.17 each) and saving money on postage too!
I got married in October '09 and I had sent out my STDs in February. I hadn't included hotel info on them though and wished I had because I got a lot of questions about hotels before the invites arrived to my guests. The problem was I hadn't booked the block of rooms until March. So if I could do it over, I would book the block of rooms, then send out the STDs. Feb or March is a good time. But you could probably send them out all the way up until the end of June.
we are having a destination wedding and are sending out STDs in Jan too. i think it is the perfect amount of time
We are getting married October 23, 2010, and plan to send the Save-the-Dates out in March. My fiance is Indian, and his mom also said not to send Save-the-Dates to their guests because they wouldn't "get it." Also, their guest list is 250, so I don't think they'll be *too* disappointed if everyone can't come. All my family/friends are local, so no need to send them early on my end!
SuzanneDiego, that's such a cute idea! We're starting to nail down the budget and guest lsit, so it looks like we'll be sending ours in Janaury too! It's good to hear it's a popular month for brides. It seemed pratical to me, but a lot of friends and family members usggested it was too early.
I'm October 16, 2010 and I'm planning on sending mine out so they drop around Valentines Day -- I'm DIYing mine to look like grade-school V-Day cards :)
i think we are going to send out our save the dates after christmas, i don't want them to be over looked because people are recieving christmas cards. my sister's husband made them for us, i just saw the final copy today and it's great! funny story: in the picture my fiance had a mustache(i hate him with a mustache!) so i asked my sister's husband to photoshop it out. when my fiance saw it he was like where's my mustache?! i was like i don't know what happened...wink wink :)
@Cupcakeandsprinkles, that is such a cute idea! You'll have to post and share the final product!
Wedding is October 29, 2010 and we're sending ours out late January/early February.
We're getting married October 16, 2010, and we're sending out our STDs late January/early February. We're finalizing our guest list now, designing and printing our STDs after Christmas, and sending them to everyone at once.
It's a great idea to include the web address of your wedding website on the STDs - so that if guests have questions about accommodations, or anything else, they can look at the website first before coming to you about it!
is anyone doubling up save the dates with holiday cards? is that tacky?
Everyone who we *really* want to be there already knows about the wedding. My sister is getting married in May and just sending out her STDs now - I think "standard" is 6 to 8 months in advance...we October brides have time, so don't stress about not getting them out in January!
I just ordered my save the dates and will send them out after MLK weekend. Since most of our guest are coming in from out of town, we wanted to give them 8-9 months notice.
We sent ours last week as well! We did them via email though, to save on the postage. Most of our guests will be flying in from out of town, so we knew they'd appreciate the extra notice.
We sent ours out on January 4th! It's been so much fun to get the phone calls and emails from friends and family! They were a BIG hit!!!
@sarahd07, I loved the responses we got! It was the first thing that made me feel like we were having a wedding that people were planning to come to, rather than that we were just engaged.
We are getting married on Sunday 10.31.10 - we are sending our STD the third week of February, because thats when they'll be finished and ready to send, HAAHAAHAA!!! i would have sent them earlier however they are being custom made and they won't be finished earlier!!!!
@sarahd07 - - I am so looking forward to that. I too think thats when I'll realy feel like this whole thing is for real. I mean I kinda felt that way when I received the engagement gifts people have sent us - unexpectedly...
we sent ours out early november. we (meaning i!) hand stamped cards, attached vellum, and a ribbon and glued the engagement pic inside. since we're having a halloween wedding, we wanted to shock our friends with the date and tried to send them out around halloween time. we did only send out about 16 of them and still have to mail the remaining 80some. :)
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...wow, I'm totally behind everyone...good to know now. I haven't even started looking at STD's. Better get on it.
We just decided to do them, we were not going to send them at all, getting married Oct 1st, so we figured if we got them out by mid to end of Feb we will be golden! We are going to include our hotel information on them, main reason we decided to send them as have lots of OOT guests and the hotels book quick by our venue.
I have magnets for my STD's and didn't do a wedding website, so there's no info about the hotel. How do you inform your guests about hotel info? Do you send out a mass email to the guest list or do you just wait and let people contact you?
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