When to send out Invitations...?

I don't think that you have to follow tradition with invitations. We will be sending ours out early as we have a few people who may not come and people that we would like to move from the evening to the day. We get married 01/07/17. I am thinking of sending ours out beginning of March with an RSVP date of mid April x

We sent ours out 4-5 months before so don't think you have to follow the time rule any more. Also the earlier people have the better deals they can get on accommodation and travel if you have people coming from afar.

Can you send them out beginning of October? This allows plenty of chasing time and also if you have reserves plenty of time to get invites to them too.

Hi,

We're sending ours out about 6 months before the wedding as all our families and a lot of our friends have to travel! We sent save the dates about 2 weeks after we got engaged as we booked the date the week after getting engaged! Family stated booking hotels straight away and said then that places were getting booked up so we don't want to wait too long and risk people not being able to book hotels!

Ignore what's traditional and do what's right for you and your guests!

Anna x

I am getting married August 2016 and have just sent my invites out at the end of April- our RSVP date is 1st July as we have a meeting with our venue on the 5th to let them know of final numbers.

I think in your situation, I would send my invites beginning of December, then put your RSVP date for mid January- gives you a little bit of time to invite other people if you have space.

We're getting married end of April 2017 and looking at sending our invites Mid November for the same reason as you!

Our RSVP will be end of January though. We don't need replies until end of Feb at the latest so this gives us time to chase people

Send them when it feels right to you

xx

We got married last month (21st April).

Day invitations went out with the Christmas cards early December.

Evening invitations early January (just in case some immediate no's came back and we could bump a few evening people up to day).

Deadline for all invitations was end of February.

I wouldn't worry too much about 'traditional' time frames - just send when you want!

Hi, we got married 19th March this year, and sent out our invitations early november with a RSVP of beginning of december - we wanted ours in before christmas and before people got distracted

Thank you everyone for their replies. I think we will go for mid november.

We are getting married 29th April 2017. We have delivered our save the dates today (was meant to be 29th April so a year before but got distracted!). We are planning on sending our day invitations out October time, and going to say RSVPs for Valentine's day as its a date people might remember. Evening invitations we were thinking possibly mid November with a similar RSVP date.

We get married 28th of this month and sent them out over Christmas and put an RSVP of end of February. The evening invites went out End of January.

Have you thought about doing a wedding website? We sent out invitations and requested RSVPs to be sent via the website. It would eliminate the possibility of any getting lost in the Christmas post.

Finally sent our invites yesterday (wedding 4 August) I'd have sent them much earlier if I could have they just took so long to get printed and sorted!

Hi there!

All the American wedding planning blogs seem to suggest 2 months before, which I think is way too late. Most English Weddings tend to be 4-5 months average, but there really is no rule on this at all.

If it was me getting married in March, I would post them in October with an RSVP deadline well before Christmas. That way you could chase late responders either before Christmas or early in the New Year.