How many weeks before the wedding should invitations be sent locally?

A lot of it is dependent on when you have to give a final head count by. 6-8 weeks generally.

Frim my experience, 8 - 10 weeks is the norm.

I would send the local ones out now. You don't want someone from out of town to talk about getting an invite and people locally finding out. They may get offended. How did you send out invitites if you didn't have an RSVP yet? RSVP date may depend on when your caterer needs final numbers. I would make the RSVP date 1-2 weeks before the caterer needs them so you can contact ppl who did reply.

Most of the people on here who are getting married the same day as you have already begun to send out their invitations. My invitations will go out the end of this month with a May 28th RSVP date due to needing our numbers the first week of June.

I'm sending mine April 14th for our June 14th wedding. I requested the return day to be by May 14th. That gives me a month to track people down, get final numbers, make a seating arrangement, and get final counts to my vendors. And it also gives them a month to figure out if they can come.

I m sending 2 months before. do not get things too rush otherwise u can not be well-prepared to enjoy your wedding. Get their reply 3-4 weeks before .

My wedding is on Sunday, June 8, 2014. I sent out invitations to everyone today. :-)

Generally the invitations are sent about 6-8 weeks before wedding. But I would suggest to send invitations to the local people 4-5 months before wedding.