Wedding invitations

I think it depends on if you sent out Save-The-Dates, we sent out our Save-The-Dates 7 months before our wedding, and the formal invitations 3 months before our wedding, with our RSVP date 2 months before the wedding, so we can make sure we plan accordingly to the number of guest that (RSVP'd).

We are sending ours out 7-8 months before our wedding so that people can plan and book their hotel rooms and everything. We will be having them RSVP by the 4 month mark so we can get our final numbers in to our caterer in time.

You can reach out to out-of-town guests individually, to allow them to mark their calendars... or do a save the date.

They say send a save-the-date pretty much when you know it, and invitations about 3-4 months out. We are sending ours about 5 months out with no save the dates, but all out-of-town guests have already been informed (a year out)

We also have several (around 1/5 of our guest list) from out of province, so we're sending our save the dates out in September (11 months pre wedding) and our invitations out in January (7 months pre wedding).

We gave our family their invites at Christmas so 8 months before and everyone else we sent in the new year so closer to 6 months. We didn’t send save the dates so we wanted them out early.

They say 8 wks (12 wks if they are from out of town) with a 4 week RSVP deadline. They say not to send it out too far in advance because people may foeget about it or their plans may change. I'm sending mine out 10 wks before. It gives me time to haunt down those who didn't RSVP and I can relax when I assign people to tables.

Between 4-6 months if suggest. If you send out save the dates I'd suggest 4 months. Set a rsvp date for about a month or so before the wedding so you have plenty of time to get it all in order.

I like the 4 month mark personally. I did it just under 4 months, and have my RSVP deadline for a month before the wedding. This gives people plenty of time to receive the invite, think about it and get the RSVP back to me.

Since we have a lot of out-of-town guests, we were planning to send the invitations 4 months before, but in the end we did it 3 months before as we didn't receive them as early as we had planned.

We didn't send save the dates, but we told everyone that we absolutely wanted there as soon as the date was set.

My future BIL and SIL sent their invitations much earlier (close to 5 months before), and from what I've been told, no one forgot.

If you sent out save the dates, I would wait until 3 months before the wedding, with an RSVP for 1 month before.

If you haven't sent out save the dates, I would say 4-6 months before.

We sent our out of town guests invites with lots of notice so they could book flights, but our in town guests are getting them about 4 months before

I would say sooner than later so that people can make travel arrangements.

We are getting married on October 20, 2018 and we are inviting 250 guest. We sent out save dates at Christmas, but not all of the guest received one.

Do you have a lot of guests that will be coming in from out of town? If so, I say start sending them out now. It gives those guests a lot more time to plan hotel rooms, flights, time off, etc. We get married on June 9th and sent out our invites at the end of January. We had previously sent out save the dates at the end of August so our guests had a heads up of the date and a link to our wedding website if they had any questions they needed answered.