How long before your wedding day are your pre-wedding parties?

We are having a stag and doe six months before the wedding as well as the bridal showers around that time. Our bachelor and bachelorette party will be happening a month prior to our wedding!

Just over a year out we had our engagement party. My shower was in June, bachelorette in August and wedding in September. He never got around to planning a bachelor party since he works so much in the summer months...

We had a wedding meet-and-greet in July and then the bachelor and bachelorette parties were the week before the wedding. Our rehearsal dinner was the night before.

Hubby's bachelor was a few weeks before the wedding. Mine was 2 days before because my MoH was only flying in from overseas then.

I do not know when anything is taking place. My MOH is planning my bachelorette and she is just going to tell me when and where. A friend is planning a couples shower, but she just asked last week so I doubt she has it planned yet. My aunt wants to throw us a shower as well. She lives in Ontario, as do most of my extended family and some friends. We probably won't make it to Ontario though until after our wedding.

Ideally, I would want shower to happen 4-5 months before and bachelorette to happen about 2 months before. From most people I've talked to, the last month is the craziest with RSVP's and tables, so I want everything else done by then.

I'm planning my bridal shower for 2 months before the wedding, and my bachelorette party is planned for 2 weeks before the wedding. One of my bridesmaids is getting married 6 weeks before me, so we had to work together and plan a lot of things around each other. It was a neat experience.

We’re planning the engagement for June of 2018 for about 50 people. And then I plan on having 2 bachelorettes since I want to have fun but also have a spa day. So I might turn it into a weekend. My FH can do the same, it’s entirely up to him. But probably about a month before the wedding

And just realized I didn’t reply to the actual question!! About 2-3 weeks before the wedding, or maybe a month prior.

We are not doing stag and doe, as we live in Ontario and the wedding is in Alberta and people that will come to Stag and Doe will not actually be able to attend our wedding.
FH will plan with his friends his bachelor party (not even sure he actually wants one) and instead of a bachelorette party, my female friends will organize some get together with wine, board games and such.

We had a jack in jill in May, my husband went on his bachelor party trip in either June or July.. I forget, and I didn't have a bachelorette party - I went for lunch with my girls and we went and got our nails done - this was just a couple days before the wedding! We got married in August!

We didn't have any parties. My husband's best man took him out about a week before the wedding to dinner and they went to a video game lounge and that was his "bachelor party"

The night before the wedding I went out with my MOHs to dinner and then we just relaxed the hotel room

I'm not having a bachelorette. Not sure when my FH is having his bachelor party. We are thinking about doing a wedding party laser tag night two nights before. And we're getting married at a summer camp, so the night before we'll probably have a campfire and hang out.

Great Thread Joey! I'm really into party planning so I may want more than one engagement party (teehee). But I was thinking about maybe having an engagement party 6 months before? I'm not quite sure what 'normal' is but I'd like to get that out of the way so it's just one less thing to stress about even if someone else is planning it. Would like to hear more of other people's plans! How many parties and what kind (engagement, stag and doe etc) are you all having?