How early is TOO early to send out invitations, particularly if you're having the sort of wedding which could be a pain in the bum for people to attend unless they have LOTS of notice....?
Basically our simple-as-heck hotel wedding has fallen through because the hotel appear to be booked up on our chosen date with a line dancers convention (I kid you not). Ok so we could just change the date, but a) we had very good reasons for picking that date b) all the other weekends either side of it clash with birthdays and wotnot c) we don't like the venue enough to change everything now just to have the wedding there.
SO! Back to square one with venue searching. We've decided to be a bit daring and look at seaside weddings. We were trundling around the website for a campsite in Cornwall we've been planning to take the kids, and realised that they have a "wedding field". I called up for a chat, and basically for £950, we get the entire field for 3 days, can erect a marquee, have whatever catering we want (hog roast!! nom nom nom), have all our guests camp or hire out the static caravans on site if they're too wussy for tents and basically finally get the super chilled out wedding we've been dreaming of.
Only problem..... none of our guests live anywhere near Cornwall. And as the wedding isn't in the school holidays, it's going to be a pain in the neck for a lot of those with children to take the time out to travel down on the Friday afternoon ready to set up camp and get settled in time for the Saturday ceremony/reception. The most considerate thing we could do is give them as much notice as possible, but we're not sure when it would be insanely early to send out invites. We thought about doing Save The Date cards for now, which will give a hint about the sort of wedding and will also direct people to the "wedsite" for further information - but when do you send out actual invitations for this sort of thing??
oh, the wedding is July 9th 2011 by the way! Bit of information that might be helpful ;-)
