Whole day and reception invitations, when to send and rsvp deadlines

We have the same clause, minimum of 50. We sent our save the dates out a year in advance and asked if people knew they couldn't attend to let us know ASAP, this meant that we could move people around before sending the official invites out, which we will be doing this month, with your timeline I would send your Day invites in early March with a deadline of mid to end of April to RSVP. if you then get declines in this period you can move people on to the day list and send our invites. Once you have all the day numbers confirmed at end of April you can then send out any invites to people you are moving up to your day list to fill any gaps. I would then say by end of May you will have your numbers and can send the evening invites. By doing it this way you don't have the awkwardness of having sent the evening invite and then offering a day place later. For Evening invites give them a month to RSVP so you will have final numbers for both by end of June, which is plenty of time

Send them in January and have RSVP deadline as march gives you enough time to sort out thing for if it's a no

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Hi there. We are getting married May 2022. We are sending day invitations this week with an RSVP deadline of 1 January and evening invitations out just after the deadline (so that if we get any RSVP nos, we have time to "upgrade" evening guests to day guests and send them a day invitation instead of their evening one). Hope that helps.

We are having 100 guests right through (Ceremony,wedding breakfast and evening reception) Im not married until April 2023 and I’ve already done my save the dates, I’ll send my invites probably around June 2022 and I’m telling people to RSVP by October so I have 6 months to invite other family and friends that couldn’t be added the to initial 100 guests. I was thinking for the second lot of invites (cause let’s face it, there will be some) 6 months in advance is normal to send invites so some people won’t even know to be offended lol plus they have ample time to sort the day off and RSVP by end of February 2023.
Honestly, I’m a little too early on some things but I know that people definitely know if they’re actually planning on attending a wedding 6 months in advance.. so I’m not playing around. I’m not leaving the ones who like to say last minute because they like to see if they can plan something better for themselves to do instead, the chance to stress me out 😂 They can let me know by October 2023 so I can invite other people I prefer hahaha. Work out when is best for you and just do what’s right by that xx