Save the dates?? Appropriate time to send invites??

For our April wedding, we sent STD's in September.

All of our guests including us will be coming from out of town so we wanted to give them time to plan.

I received a STD from my cousin of her wedding date. This is a first to say to have gotten one. They had handed out personally to family during the Christmas time when they got together. For Canada and overseas, it was sent out this February and the wedding is in September. 6 months ahead for them.

If it's a long weekend, you should send out save the dates. We sent ours out in October for our August wedding (which is also on a long weekend). We've held off on sending out the invitations (since we haven't picked them), but since people have received the save the dates, we can afford to wait a bit. I hope this helps!

We weren't planning on sending out StD (such an unfortunate set of initials), but my FMIL made a good point that a chunk of our guests will need to travel to our wedding - We've arranged for a block of rooms, too, so they'll have plenty of time to figure out accommodations. So we've decided to send them to all of our guests + it's a good chance to confirm mailing addresses, relationship statuses and names of partners haha.

We're getting married September 2019, and we'll be mailing out the StD this week. We're also planning on sending the invitations in June/July.

I'm using both WW and The Knot's timeline/to do lists, to help me determine when to complete tasks and send stuff. I find them both extremely useful

With wedding in end of August over the long weekend, I am hoping to get the save the dates out at the 6 months mark and then invites at 3 months to go. Although considering that we had a lot of people already asking for date and venue as they need to travel or are just excited about it, I feel like as soon as you have date and venue you could go ahead and get the info out I like the idea about your save the dates going out exactly one year in advance that would be so cool! And then invites with rsvps at 4-3 months ish?

I agree with the others and send Save the Dates 8-10 months in advance, you can send them a whole year though if you have the venue/date secured! We sent ours in January at the 9 month mark lol. We sent ours to everyone too, since it had been over a year since we got engaged and people might start wondering "when's the wedding?"

For invites, those are usually sent 2-4 months in advance. I'll probably be sending mine at 3 months, to allow more time to get/track down RVSPs!

Although I didn't send any, when I was going to send them it was going to be around the 10 month mark. For you I would say that as long as you have the venue figured out with the date - send them whenever! If you think it's too early I would send them out at the 1 year mark so that you could put something like "this time next year..." on it

Also, even though it's a long weekend - most people won't start planning anything for May long until September long is done or after Christmas so I wouldn't worry too much about that aspect.

I have a long engagement too (2 years) so we're sending Save the Dates hopefully in November of this year, which will be 10 months in advance. To me, it's kindof way of keeping people in the loop after maybe not hearing any updates from us for over a year. Plus we have a few relatives who would need to fly here. Then we'll send invites out around April/May of 2020.

I’m getting married July 2020 and I’m sending my dates in July of this year. We have people coming in from England and Poland so we want them to have a good heads up on the date so they can begin booking flights! Won’t send my invites out til March 2020

We are getting married May of this year and sent our save the dates August of last year! I'd say 8-10 month in advance is fine! And just send to everyone to make it easy!