How early is too early?

I think that depends on how close you are. so for me I started working a part time job (which was my old job) up until March 2019 for some extra cash for the wedding. My wedding was June 2019 but I didn't invite anyone from there because I just wasn't close to anyone even if I knew them from before.

I have a couple of my past coworkers (I quit about two years ago now) that I hang out with occasionally on my guest list, but since I won't even be ordering invitations for around 9 months I'll probably reevaluate closer to. I intend to send all of our must-have guests a save the date this fall, family and our closest friends, but I don't want to feel obligated to invite people I've drifted away from next year. Depending on when you start your new job, your new coworkers may find it weird to be invited to your wedding, and generally the advice I see is to invite coworkers you have a relationship with outside of work. How many people are you talking about? Will it make a big difference if you reevaluate those relationships in a year?

I invited a past coworker and his family. It all depends on the relationship you have with them, if you don't speak or hang out outside of work now I wouldn't bother including them later.

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I plan on leaving this job after working here about a year, which will leave 6-7 months at the new job before the wedding. I don't have a relationship with any of my current coworkers outside of work, we're all just really close at work.

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I wouldn't invite the current coworkers if you don't hang out with or talk to them outside of work. Do you plan to keep in contact with them when you leave? If so, you can reevaluate when it's time to print/send invitations if you have developed friendships with them that warrant an invite. As far as any new coworkers, unless we became instant BFFs and hung out outside of work I would think it was strange to be invited to your wedding 6-7 months after you started. I was at my old job for a little over five years before I quit and was close with several people at work that I never saw outside of work, but after a few awkward conversations post-quitting I stopped making an effort and they didn't make an effort either. We obviously spend a lot of time around coworkers and that can foster closeness, but that doesn't mean the relationship goes beyond working together.

I personally would wait a little longer because relationships can change in that time span!

Do not finalise a guest list now. No earlier than 9 months out, you may send Save the dates. Really not needed even then if few people are traveling very long distances, or for long periods of time, or on a holiday. You may send Save the Dates, which means you absolutely will sent an invitation later, to people you have no doubt about, like family you are closest to, and also to those who must travel far, but not invite other local people, or people you are unsure of, until you address invitations around 10 weeks out, and mail them in time to arrive at people's houses.es around 8 weeks out. You need not purchase special STD cards or magnets or anything. The same thing g is accomplished by calling people on the phone, or using email, and with those methods you can at the same time ask people the way they prefer to be addressed, and their current addresses, the proper titles and names of their husbands, wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, and such. Unless you need people long distance to know earlier, doing this advance notice around 5-6 months, not earlier, you will get more accurate info. If you collect addresses and info on SO too early, like over a year, by 6 months you need to repeat it, or else when you start addressing things under 3 months you will get returned invited from people moving, SO and some marriages will have broken up, there will be new people, yada yada.
A general guest list, not a final one, can be drawn up at a year. . . . Some things you should not do way in advance: do not ask bridal party to early. Or if you have asked before 9 months out, know that there is nothing bridesmaids or MOH need to do before six months out. Bridesmaid dresses come in 2-10 weeks after ordering, and really should not be ordered far in advance, or else a change of as little as 15 pounds, or a pregnancy, can mean an additional $250 in alterations added to the cost if a $150 to $250 dress. And BM will be furious, at you, if you push them to order earlier than 4 months out, and they have more alterations than just hemming, because they changed sizes more over the longer period. And BM or their SO move, get new jobs with zero days off ( or working weekends) , get engaged themselves and set a date before yours, then have no time or money for yours, or they get pregnant and may not get to the wedding. You know each of your bridesmaids, to you they may seem like a team. But they are not. They are a group of individuals with very different lives, and may make a lot of personal changes in a year's time. The later you ask formally, the more likely they are to stay interested in the wedding, and to not have a lot if friction or drama, or dropping out. So in all the things you do in advance, do not announce bridesmaids too early, or expect them to do anything too early . All the things you mentioned, and getting stationery for all your thank you cards, hundreds of them, and flowers, decorations, linens, those are your safe advance prep things. It is enough to do everything once. Doing, and redoing, and more redoing of things that change, is frustrating, and upsets all involved. Better to leave final guest list, and STD or early notice decisions, and bridal party things, for 8-10 months from now . Have some non wedding fun along the way!

I am inviting a previous coworker that I am still really close to. She and her husband have been to our house and my FW adores them. So if you're close I don't think it would be awkward.