How far in advance do you send wedding invitations?

You should send save the dates 6 or 7 months out to let everyone know. Our wedding is may 1 and we will send invites beginning of feb

My wedding is also sept 2015 and I am sending my invites in April/may. Save the dates went out already as a lot of people I know work in an area where they have to book their vacation by a certain date, mine is March, so that way they knew a long time in advance.

I think that is perfect timing! I am also a September bride and am doing the same timeline for people in state. That is plenty of time and not to early in advance!

We are having a destination wedding so I sent out invites about 7 months early, give people lots of time for organizing and everything. I think if it's a more local wedding people usually do 6-8 weeks early.

That's another thing we work for a very very large company in Florida and we have vacation bids which usually happen now for next year, so I am afraid some friends won't make it since they didn't bid for that vacation time... all this wedding planning stuff is hard ::wipes forehead:: lol

By the etiquette book, 6-8 weeks for in town and 2-3 months for out of town. Our wedding is on NYE, which falls on a Wednesday this year. And it's in the afternoon. So we sent our STD's and invites out together back in April because we knew people would have to take time off for it and, being the last day of the year, they would need to have not used all of their time over the summer. A little unconventional, but I was OK with it. :-)

I think March would be too early for invites. But January is fine for save the dates. You could even do the save the date now if you wanted. Save the dates can go out 6-12 months prior to the wedding. For a destination wedding invites are typically sent out 2-3 months prior.

As long as you send out the save the dates people will be able to plan. You don't need to also get the invite out so soon.

The idea of Save the Dates are to "save the date", that is why we send them 6-7 months before the wedding date. If someone truly wants to go to your wedding when they get a save the date, they will accomodate their schedule and time off accordingly.

I really see no reason for sending the invites out months ahead of time, this just causes more people to forget about your wedding.

Two months before your wedding is PLENTY of time for the invites.

For out of town guests, you can let them know about your wedding website ahead of time with the hotel information on it.

I live in Colorado, we are expecting about 125 people. I'd say about 90 of them are coming from out of state (Mostly Massachusetts area) I sent out my STD's 13 months in advance (A lot of my family has careers where they put in for time off a year in advance). Our wedding is June, we are sending out invitations in February/March. I don't care if it's "against ethics/ etiquette" It is what we're doing. Haven't been traditional up to this point, why start now?

I sent STDs 8 months ahead and will send invitations 10 weeks ahead.

My wedding was in September 2014 and I sent invites the first week of June and even that was still considere early. My guests had 6 weeks to RSVP which was perfect. They really didn't need any longer than that. (My wedding also had a lot of people needing to travel)

March is way too early, if people want to start making plans they will do so when they get the save the dates. There is no need for invites in march as save the dates are an informal invite and people will know to start making plans before.

The only reason to send invites out in march would be because you weren't sending save the dates and you needed to tell people about the wedding.

Our wedding is in March and we are sending out invitation beginning of January. We've already shared our website that was full of information.

My wedding is in April and I'm sending out invitations around the 4 month mark... because I'm simply too excited to wait any longer! Haha

Our wedding is in September 2015 also and I just mailed out our invitations. Apparently, the postage goes up to $0.71 at the end of May. But like the bride before me, I was just too excited.

Our article on When to Send Wedding Invitations says that for most weddings, sending invitations about six to eight weeks before the event is right, and you can set your RSVP deadline for about two to three weeks before your wedding. For destination weddings, two to three months before the event is right to send out wedding invitations, with an RSVP deadline for about six weeks before the wedding day.

For a September out of state wedding I'd send the save the dates in Jan and the invitations 3 months before your date.