No location on invitation, ok or not?

Not okay. You don’t have a date or a time until you have a venue.

I agree with everyone else, your date/time isn’t 100% until you get a venue. We booked our date 13 months in advance, and my vendor mentioned later it was good we did that because a ton of couples were interested in our date. I hope you’re able to get a venue soon!

Send the dates help people plan to have that day off or make travel arrangements. Once you have a venue secured then you can plan on sending the invitations. My wedding is September 7th and we are sending our invitations out by June 7th. That gives people two months to RSVP. We need a head count three weeks prior to our date. That gives us an extra week to track down people who don't rsvp.

If you want to get something out there, create a wedding website. That way you can constantly update it with new information. But you will end up with a lot of people asking you questions and wanting an update on the location.

I wouldn't send anything else out because you don’t have a venue. The venue really can impact your date unless your using someone’s home.

I wouldn't send out save the dates or invites until you have a venue. You won't know the date and time of your wedding until the venue is booked.

Yeah that's a bad idea. Sure its annoying to get questions but you'll get 100x more of them if you send an invite with no real info on it.
How is your date set in stone with no venue?

So what happens if you end up not finding a venue? Do you have a last ditch back up plan? If not then no matter what the date means to you, you don't have a date. I wouldn't send anything out until you have a booked venue. Invites are to let people know where to be and what time to be there. If you don't have half of that info they're pointless.

Typically save the dates would go out around now and would list the date and city/town where the wedding is. Invites go out closer to the wedding. If I were you though I’d be cautious though about committing to a date without a venue. Places are typically booked up a year in advance so if you do have to change the date it’s easier to not let your guests know until you have your venue booked. Good luck!

I would book your Venue ASAP to be honest...you're trying to get married in one the busiest months of the year. We booked our venue in June of 2018 for August of 2019 and almost all of the September dates we were considering were already booked by then. First thing you're supposed to do is a book a venue to secure a date.

First, it's too early to send invitations. Those go out usually 8 weeks before. And technically, you don't have a date until you have a venue booked. I get that you have a date in mind, but until you find a venue that is open on that day, you don't have a set date. And if you send out invitations without a venue, don't you think you'll have as many, if not more, questions than you do now, simply because people will have no idea where they are going.

Best to put your venue search into overdrive, and get that nailed down ASAP!! Then you can confidently send out invitations that have all the information your guests need. For now, just ignore the questions.

I would definitely caution you against sending anything out until you have a venue---even Save the Dates!

My concern is that even if your date is set in stone, everything else isn't. What if the only venue you find that works for your date and budget has a much different capacity than you were planning on inviting? If you are prioritizing your date, everything else really needs to be flexible. I'd hate for you to send things out and then find that you either have to send a followup update, or even end up not having space for everyone you've already invited.

It is way too early to send out invitations so I would wait until you have booked the venue. People will need to know where to go so I would think that definitely should be on there. My wedding is also in September and I will be mailing mine out late June, early July with a RSVP date of August 1st and that it probably considered early. If it is in your budget, I would send out Save the Dates while you wait on a venue to keep people from bugging you about it. Even email STD's will work if you don't have the budget to print and mail them. They should buy you some time. But be careful that even though you may have a date....what if you can't find a venue that has that date open. The date might also have to change depending on the venue you choose and its availability. My STD's went out in February.

View Quoted Comment I’m not sure how your date is set in stone if you don’t have a location... what if you’re unable to find a venue with availability on that date? Regardless, it’s still too early for invitations anyway. You should generally send them 6-8 weeks before your wedding. You could do 3 months before, at the VERY earliest.

I would find a venue ASAP we wanted a October wedding of 2019 and everything was booked from August to December. We got lucky that our date wasn’t pending contract yet we just swooped in and paid the deposit before the couple before us did. You’re wanting to get married in the peak season and unfortunately with it being 5 months away you’re very unlikely to get married this coming September

No invites without that information. Logistical nightmare for loads of reasons, not the least of which being, people can’t prepare for nor know if they can attend if they don’t know where it is. Invites shouldn’t go out til about 2 months before the event anyway. You COULD send save the dates now with just a heads up about the date, but be mindful this can complicate your venue search: everyone that receives a save the date must also be invited to the wedding, so you are locking yourself into your number of guests invited and will need to be sure to find a venue that can accommodate everyone that received a save the date. Still, a save the date without a location is only mildly helpful without people being able to know if they’ll need to plan for travel or not.

Thank you everyone for your feedback, I felt like it was too soon for invitations but with everyone asking I felt like I was crazy for not having them out yet. I will be taking the suggestion to set up my wedding website and have updates as needed.

I will answer a couple of questions that people posted:

Regarding the date, the reason it's set in stone is because it's sentimental. We understand we may need to be flexible, and so far we have had no issues with vendors being booked for that date. The only issue we have is financial, but my father decided he will be helping so that's been a huge stress relief (or will be once he actually transfers the amount we discussed).

We have a small guest list (50 on our list), and we're aware that not everyone will attend.

Agree with a few other, until you have a venue booked, anything could happen to change your date. Lock down a venue first, and then send out invites about 8 weeks beforehand 😊

I would wait until you have location down. Besides the date, that's the only other point to an invitation.

View Quoted Comment People have been asking me a lot too and I agree with you about it being annoying

View Quoted Comment A lot of jobs you need to ask
if for months in advance. If people are already off your guest may not get it off. Wich is why people want to know.