Invites - when to send them

We didn't do Save The Dates, and just sent out our Invites the other day and we are getting married in May! I think sending them out now is fine just be sure you want those people at your wedding! Also HIGHLY recommend Ambrotek Printing! They are doing our invites!!

We skipped the save the dates and sent out the invitations 9 months prior (way ahead of time) to the family in US only and hand delivered to family and friends locally. Lesson learned.

We skipped the Save the date as well just an extra cost that we didn't see necessary. We are getting married August 4th, 2018 and sending them out about March 2018 as we have 250 including our wedding party attending and a list of people who are on a secondary list. We are having an after party but as we have such a large guest list we are sending them out early to make sure we can attempt to accommodate a few more that may have not made it.

I was wondering this too! We got engaged December 2017 and getting married October 7, 2018. I will be sending out save the dates via email this month and then follow up with a paper invitation likely around June. I thought about doing an email invite but I felt some people such as family or the older generation might appreciate it. Some of them don’t even use email! I’m also having up to about 90 guests so it hasn’t been a big ordeal gathering emails and addresses. I did this by asking a few people to help (ie, my fiancee, mother and MIL) and split the guest list.

We sent our save the dates via e-mail and then sent out real invitations a few months later but we had a short engagement. I think you can send out the invites in the new year and that should still give people plenty of time.

We did email save the dates to cut down on cost and make sure people didn't plan anything else on that date and booked time off. We then sent our invites 4 months before the wedding.

We skipped the save-the-dates. We are about 9 months out from our wedding, and I think we only have 2 invites left to give out (we seriously hand delivered all of our invites). I would say we started handing them out about a year in advance. If you're skipping the save-the-dates, you have to send our invites out earlier, even if people think it's too early or weird to send them so soon. Our wedding is the Saturday of August long weekend, so we sent them out maybe even earlier than we needed to, but we wanted to make sure everyone knew before they started to make plans for their long weekend. If you wait to long (even if your day isn't on a long weekend), people may start to make other plans.

View quoted message I did exactly the same thing! Sending a save the date email with an engagement photo as soon as we had our date. And we are planning on sending the invitations 4 months before the wedding.

We sent save the date by email to all the friends and relatives, and sending invites soon too. The majority loved getting on email and asked if invites too were being sent that way, so maybe??

I sent a save the date by email using one of my engagement pictures. I was going to send the invitations 6 months ahead, but I also was told that it's too early. So I sent an electronic save the date and I will send my invitations 4 months ahead instead.

View quoted message I'm glad go hear you also were planning on spending them out early ! We had already ordered our invites as well and had started addressing them ! This definatly helps give me a better idea of how everyone else is going about it, as our rsvp date is July ! thank you !

We are getting married at the end of August 2018. We have our invitations printed and envelopes purchased, we did this task early because it was bugging me and once we found a style that we both liked, one thing lead to another. We are hoping to send them out early and avoid doing save the date notifications as well. As we see family over Christmas, we will gather mailing addresses. I think we will send ours out in February or March. Our RSVP date is June 1st.

We didn’t do save the dates either. We actually just told our family that we are getting married and the date. When my mother and FMIL spoke with extended family the date was passed around. I didn’t want to send them as it would also add an additional expense that I didn’t think was needed.

Great question. I'm also getting married in September and was thinking to ditch the save the dates since I think it's a waste of money. However would love to hear other suggestions and opinions.