When to send invites?

View quoted message We do have a lot of people from out of town but everyone knows the date anyway. I think I will send them out earlier just to remind people (plus an earlier RSVP date is a good thing)!

Do you have a lot of people coming in from out of town? If so, then I say send them a little bit earlier than you normally would to give them a lot of notice. We sent ours out at the end of January but sent out save the dates as well.

I haven't sent my STD or Invites out - but I already know that if I send out the STD's I will be doing it online for free whether I have to make them on Photoshop or can find a website that does them for free. There's that, and then there is also the wedding website being a good STD instead of sending out a STD card in the mail.

View quoted message Right?! STDs are just too expensive and wasteful for us. Everyone who is invited knows the date because we’ve told them, no need to waste money/time/paper!

View quoted message Yeah, I can’t imagine the work that went into finding everyone’s email address (finding real addresses is tough enough, lol!). And it’s the same with us, everyone knows when it is, it’s just a matter of formally inviting the people

View quoted message That’s the same with us. Everyone already knows when it will be, so the extra paper and postage is just a waste!

We didn't do STDs so we went our invites out about five months before the wedding date - but everyone already knew the date by word of mouth anyway.

We didn't do Save the Dates either and sent our invites out 6 months before the wedding. Most invitees knew our wedding date through word of mouth or us calling them, so it wasn't so much as informing them, but at least knowing if they were invited or not. We also had a lot of out of town guests, so I wanted to give them plenty of time to plan for it.

You can also do Save the Dates through email if you want to save money which a friend did for her wedding. It can be painful though if you don't have everyone's email addresses.

I was curious on this too. Because I don't want to spend the extra postage on save the dates. and if things change with our guest list.
we have verbally told our far away guests when the date is just to give them time to figure out travel.

View quoted message You are most welcome! Good luck!

View quoted message Very true, thanks for the info!

View quoted message Ok, thanks! Glad to hear it worked out well!

We didn’t send Save the Dates, and we sent our invites four months before the wedding with the RSVP deadline two months before the wedding. That way people had two months to respond and I had two months to chase down those who did not respond. It worked really well! Most of our guests responded “yes” and I got all the RSVPs in good time. I did, however, give the people who would be travelling from out of country a heads up way in advance.

We didn't do save the dates and we gave our invitations out between Christmas and February for our wedding in July. We have people traveling to attend and wanted them to have lots of time to plan accordingly.

I would absolutely send the invites a little early if there's no STD's. It gives people a heads up on your upcoming wedding.