Save the dates

I would suggest it because it's a long weekend. Since they're not necessary you could do an email save the date. We didn't send them out buy we made a point to tell everyone in person and gave our invitations out about 7 months before!

We did save the dates. My fiancé’s friends and family live in Quebec and I have friends coming from over seas.

Not necessary to do so unless you have some family members who don't use emails or computers. I called everyone in advance to let them know.

I would. I would say a year in advance is a good time.

It wouldn't hurt! I'm sending save the dates for my wedding (also August long weekend 2019), just to ensure that all of our guests (especially our OOT ones) have the time off to come.

Not necessary. But for out of town guests. I would give them a heads up. so they can prepare. we aren't a holiday weekend. but we have some out of country guests. so we gave them a heads up on the date. so they can start looking at flights etc.

They are not necessary! But as soon as we knew our location/date, we let all our out-of-town guests know.

My godmother and one of my bridesmaids are both from out of town, and Sept 8th is the latest date I could have my Bridal Shower before my bridesmaid moved to the UK until the wedding... So my mom said I should send a Save the Date because her generation would find it weird to be invited to a shower so early, and not have been invited to the wedding yet. So we did a digital save the date. I designed this on Photoshop and message or e-mailed it to all guests.

If it wasn't for that, I wouldn't have done it... but if you are going to, I suggest about 8-10 months before the wedding, if it is local. ASAP if you're doing a destination.

Save the Date

You don't have to but I would say to send them out about 7-10 months before the wedding!

Save the dates aren't a requirement but for the most part it is used to inform out of town guests that they will need to find somewhere to stay or to book off some time so that they will be able to make the trip. Since it is on a long weekend that shouldn't be a problem but I know that I usually book trips for the summer long weekends as early as April so perhaps just send out the invitations a little earlier than that to ensure they don't plan a trip that isn't for your wedding? (Example - I buy tickets for Canada's National Ukrainian Festival as early as January!)