How long should I leave for RSVP's

I sent mine roughly end of feb and asked for a reply by April 1st my wedding is June 18th...

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I am sending mine now and have put rsvp by 1st august. Im not getting married until October but need to sort out table plan etc before I go back to school in september. x

We're sending ours in November with a deadline of 31 January for RSVPs. We get married on 12 March.

I left a month, to reply. I figured if it was too long people would see the RSVP date think Ill reply later and then forget!

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I sent mine on Friday and have put for RSVP to be back by 30th June, that gives people just over a month to get them back. I thought the same if you give people too long they might forget ? Also give me 2 months to sort out table plan

I've put by 1st October for wedding on 13th! That gives me 2 weeks (ish)!

Crikey Deborah, you're brave, I'd be freaking out if I hadn't done my table plan and placecards by then. I'm going to send my invites out the beginning of August and give until the end of August for all RSVP's. I'm getting married the end of October so it'll give me plenty of time for the seating plan etc x

I suppose it depends on how many people you are having though. I haven't sent my invitations out yet (naughty emmy) but I've put RSVP by 1st August, getting married 20th August. I actually don't expect anyone to RSVP formally though because we're only having 51 to the day and 90 at night and apart from OH workmates I'll speak to everyone else at some point. They only need to tell me if they want chicken or fish for their scran. ?

Well i kinda know whos coming anyway! So its no biggie! I have my side kinda sorted in my head atm anyway! Its tradition to send the invited 6 weeks before, so in doing that, it gives people a month to RSVP. I've spoken to any teachers that are invited and they are organising their time off now. Its in mid october, people wont be 2 busy!

We gave about 7 weeks to reply and the rsvp date is about 9 weeks before our wedding...I did that cos thought a few wouldn't rsvp by then so it would give me time to chase then sort final numbers and budget! The other thing is, if some people can't come to our day do, then we won't 'replace them' or 'bump' anyone up cos we only want close peeps at the day anyhow, but it will mean we can invite a few more to our night do that we currently can't due to venue number restrictions...so that might be worth considering if you want to allow some time to invite more people or count the pennies you have saved!! (Bad that the wedding has turned me into this!)