Out of country invites?

I would do about 6 to 8 months ahead that is what I am doing for my out of area guests in the states and across Canada. Another good thing you could do as well is maybe the ones you have on Facebook personally invite with a quick message so they are aware they are invited. You can also call, or find a different way to contact the others that do not have Facebook so they know as well. Then send out the actual invitations around 6 to 8 months.

My friend is getting married in Germany this summer (July 2018). She sent out Save the Dates through email as soon as they had the venue booked. She's heard back from quite a few relatives and friends saying they've already booked flights etc... so she's planning to send out invites around April.

I guess it depends if there are any older relatives that wouldn't see your Facebook save the date, or someone who doesn't have social media. Just make sure to give them a quick call/email and I would send them a little later.

Hey Lydia!!

I am from the GTA and my fiance is from Chicago; we met at school in Michigan and I live in Ottawa. He also has family in Arizona, California, and Colorado. This being said we are sending invites all over the place!!

For us, we were thinking a year in advance for save the dates and 2/3 months for invitations. Its less about booking trips (although it is important to book early-ish to save money), and more about ensuring proper travel documentation! We have some friends who still don't have passports, which can take up to 6 months. My fiance is an immigration attorney, and he's confident this is plenty of time. From my immigration law class in law school, I'm fairly certain it should be a similar process to the US in Europe, so I think a year would be OK. I think anything over a year might be overkill.

This being said, I do think you should send out a formal save the date. Invitations typically dont go out until a few months before the wedding here; I dont know if tradition is different in Europe, so people might expect something different, but for us we figured the save the dates are sufficient to let people know they should get their ducks in a row (because everyone who gets a save the date knows theyre getting an invitation anyway).

Hope this helps

Tori

I wanted to send save the dates out a year in advance, but we only got engaged nine months before our wedding date (we actually had our wedding date set before we were engaged!) We ended up giving eight and a half months notice.

Some people will need to submit vacation days for work by a certain time, which is why I wanted them out. My friend had to have her days in to work by the end of November.

We are doing our invites about 4 months before the wedding. And, we will have them RSVP by 2 months before. That gives us about a month and a half to chase people who don't RSVP and to finalize numbers for our caterer.

Since your guests are coming from a distance, I would suggest doing Save the Dates now, and then about 4-6 months prior do the invitations. That way, they get a "reminder" and it will still give the procrastinators enough time to book flights and arrange for a place to stay.

I think a year is a good idea.

For ours we don't have too many out of town people attending the wedding but those that are, we kindly sent out an email to inform them that they are invited and the date the wedding would be happening. Everyone out of town are mainly family or friends of the fiance's side so that was our little save the date.

other than that we told everyone either in person or over the phone. Save money in that sense and we will be sending out invitations about 8-7 months in advance.