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I think 6 months before the wedding is too early for regular invites. People are more prone to forget that soon. That is about when I am plannin gon sending the save the dates, so I think that you should wait until about 3 or 4 months prior.
I got married in October of 09 and we sent ours out in August. We didn't do STD (IMO these are best suited for destination weddings & plus it just wasn't in our budget.)
Our guests had 3 months to plan travel/hotels b.c our wedding was the last week in Oct. If it was the beginning of Oct we would of sent them out in July.
I think if you do them too early, they could be easily misplaced or ppl won't RSVP right away b/c the wedding seems so far away. Personally I think 3 months is good, esp if you don't have a STD. If you do a STD, then a month in advance is fine.
You can send out STDs that early, but I wouldn't send out the actual invites until 2-3 months before. I think I'm sending mine in early August for our Halloween wedding.
October Brides Rock!!!
We sent out our STD's in late June, early July and our real invites out the first week of Sept. Most of our guests were local though.
Good luck and congrats!
Half of our guests are coming from overseas, so we'll be getting ours out sooner rather than later -- we're looking at June.
Thanks ladies! I definitely agree with the to early thing... perhaps we will send an email STD once my fiance gets our site up and running... and invites in June. We have a split between out of town guests and locals, but I'm also concerned because its on a holiday weekend....
We emailed STDs since almost all of our guests are coming in from out of town. We plan on sending the invites out mid-August.
I am sending out STDs this week (80% of guests have to travel for the wedding) and planning on sending invites out the last weekend in August.
I'm doing save the dates because I'm nervous our 101010 date/ columbus day weekend will be popular and I have to claim it! hehe... We're sending them out next week and then invites probably mid-late august.
I thought you sent invites out about 6-8 weeks ahead of time? How early can you send them out? Since we have a limited amount of people we are allowed, we have to do an A & B list (which makes me feel super tacky, but the guests won't know), and I want to get my "definitely attendings" back as soon as I can.
I am sending my STD's out at the end of the month or early next month. Usually they say STD's out 6 months before the wedding but ours is in Vegas so we want to give ppl a little more time. Then I figure I will send out the invites around late July or early August bc its typically 2 months before the wedding when those go out
Yay for October brides!!!
Our STDs will go out to about half of our guests in March (my fiance and his family are Indian, and his mom didn't really see the point of the STD since it's not something that's really done in their culture). But, because their guests won't be getting STDs, we are sending the invites out on the earlier end in July. Most of our guests will be local as well.
I actually just mailed out our STDs over the past two weeks to my family (all of which are coming in from out of state). A few of them had already called asking what the date was because they need to put in for the time off! However, since most of FI's family is local, we'll be sending them out at the end of the month sometime (no need to rush). As for the invites, we were thinking of sending them out late July/early August.
I'm getting married 10/10/10 and I sent out save the dates in the first or second week of Aug 09 lol... Everyone will be traveling from out of town so I tried to give them beaucoup notice. I've done very little planning from the initial things I did when we were first engaged and I was super excited about everything... I had started invitations way back when (september?) but haven't touched them since. Now that the clock is ticking, I am trying to get back into the swing of things and finalize plans but it is not easy..
it's especially discouraging to find out that so many things I had planned to do later since they weren't really easy to do early on are things that I may have trouble with now.. like cakes and catering since so many others are getting married on our date =\
I got married 10/17/09 and we sent our invites in the middle of August. We did STDs in February 2009.
Our wedding is 10/9/10 and you girls are right...that is a HUGE weekend for weddings AND people will be off for the holiday! Its a 3 day weekend for most people so CLAIM YOUR DATE! lol We sent out our STD's in Christmas Cards the week of Christmas. Everyone LOVED them and most had never seen anything like it!
Our STD's will be going out the second week of April and the invites the last week of July. Yah!
Yay for October brides! I sent out email STDs in January, and actually got several responses from them (which was good in terms of getting our numbers straight). I think people are even more inclined to respond via email because it's that much easier. I am, however, doing paper invitations, and I'll send those out in late July (my wedding is 10/10/10).
Hi there Fellow Brides! My Lucky day is 10-09-10. Octoberosa is right! Im thinking like her. I have family in two parts of the world. And for all of us to meet in a place like las vegas than I had to send out my STD in January. To get the hotel in order, plus when you book or save rooms early they give you a heck of a deal. And everyone at first was like oooh I cant wait to go....but reality hit when I sent out the STD. People called and said I cant go or we already have plans! So with that said I scrambeled on to my list B of guest and invited others. Need to get my counts in order. Im thinking to send out my invites out to my outside family in June and my locals in mid July.
We are sending out our STDs at the end of April and our invites in July. I know that's a little late to be sending out STDs but we are having an intimate wedding of 50 and most people on our guest list know the who, what, where details. Those that don't would be friends of my mom, who are all local anyway. July is a bit early for invitations too, but some of our guests will be overseas and a lot of my friends need to ask for the time off well in advance. I agree that invitations shouldn't be sent too far ahead since guests might forget/lag on their RSVP duties.
We are going to send out invites early...as we are thinking of combing STD + Invite. I need a list of people by late august. We are getting married at the State Capitol and for security reasons they require list of all people that are going to be in the capitol.
We're having a destination wedding, so we sent out our STD's a year ahead (I know, early). We're sending our invites out next month with an RSVP by Julyish.
ok, so just a week ago i sent out my invites for over seas and locals. I also set up a website w theknot.com and did wedding info in there to and did little info cards telling of the limo bus service we are providing with other wedding info such as times and addresses and links, and of course our registry. so hope this enlightens some ideas for fellow bees. oMG only have 84 days
We're having an out of town wedding on 10-16-10 and have sent Save the Dates (I just can't do the shortcut to those words!!) LOL!! I'm trying to figure out when to send the invitations. My Mom says, "Who DOESN'T know about this wedding??" ...this is true. But still...here it is close to the end of July and I'm itching to send them. I think I'll get them out by August 2nd. I figure that's reasonable since people have Save the Date's, right?
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October brides... when are you sending your invites? We were planning to do save the dates and then decided against it... so, because of that -- should we send the invites out early? I'm not sure...we're thinking to send them March/April...thoughts?