When to send out invitations? Ceremony & Reception

We did Save the Dates about 7 months out, and invitations now (4 months out). Ours is a destination wedding for all of my FH's family and friends so we wanted to give them lots of time to plan.

I used VistaPrint for mine and ADORE them.

I sent out my STD one year ahead to give out of towners time to plan and a heads up.

Then I would send your actual invitations 3-4 months to give time to book flights and hotel.

Our wedding is in July and we sent Save the Dates out in January and our wedding invitations the first week of May. Our wedding invite RSVP date is one month before the wedding. We got our invites via Shutterfly! They have some awesome sales that we took advantage of.

Hi Katrina,

We sent our save the dates out about 1 year before and for our August 2022 wedding, we had invites out in May so roughly 3 months before. To be honest, if you send invites out too early, sometimes people forget but save the dates are always helpful! We used invitations off of Etsy, turned out beautiful.

6 months is way too much time. If you want to give people a heads up, I suggest doing save the dates a year to 6 months out then send your invites max 12 weeks before the wedding.

Our wedding is a destination wedding for everyone so we sent save the dates a year in advance, so last August. We sent invites out at 14 weeks instead because we have our RSVP date a month and a half before the wedding date because I need to get place cards.