Invitations, when to send? & handwriting?

When are your final numbers due? March 1 seems like a very early rsvp date. Usually the rsvp date is 1-2 weeks before your final counts are due.

January 1st is a little early to send invites and March 1st is early for an RSVP date. Invites are normally sent 6-8 weeks before the wedding.

Invitations should go out 6-8 weeks before your wedding and your RSVP deadline should be a week or two before your final headcount is due. Your estimates are very early. As far as addressing, our Minted invitations came pre-addressed. We printed directly only the envelopes for save the dates.

We didn't send save the dates and with a lot of out of town guests, we are sending our invitations 12 weeks in advance. If you want to do them early you could just move things down a month. So send out beginning of February and due date beginning of April.

I am creating my own invitations so I am hand writing all the addresses on both RSVP and invites.

View Quoted Comment Final meeting with catering is April 6th-10th. Which will be 2 weeks before the wedding. Maybe I should do RSVP on March 23rd? Any suggestions?

View Quoted Comment Good ideas Tina. We also did not send out save the dates. We have a few out of town guest, maybe I can send it early to them.

View Quoted Comment Cool 👍 thank you Amber

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I'm getting married April 11th. We did save the dates in September, and invites will go out by the end of January! I already have them. Think our RSVP date is March 11th? I did shutterfly invites and got the envelopes printed with addresses. I will have to hand write a few, cause some people are moving and I didn't have new addresses when I ordered.

View Quoted Comment Oh that's pretty good. A month in advance for RSVP doesnt sounds so bad. Maybe that even gives plenty of time to follow up with those who didnt RSVP.

I think changing the RSVP to two weeks before your catering cutoff is fine. Maybe go with March 20th to be safe? I would send the invitations in mid-February, January 1st would be a bit early.

We're probably doing labels. We used these wraparound labels from Etsy for our STDs and I think they turned out gorgeous, but I might switch to something a little easier to read for the invitations. https://www.etsy.com/listing/602346582/wrap-around-labels-printable-address?ref=hp_rf-1&frs=1

I agree with others that your dates are a little early. Invitations typically go out 6-8 weeks before the wedding with RSVP’s due around 2 weeks before your wedding (or when your final head count is due). I’d say February 21st would be the earliest you should mail them out with a RSVP deadline of around April 3rd, to allot for the final meeting with your caterer. As far as addressing envelopes... the company who did our invitations printed addresses (both addressee and return) for us.

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March seems a bit early for RSVP's, trust me, no matter how early you make it, you'll still be tracking people down.

I used my Cricut to address the envelopes. It looked way nicer than my handwriting but more special than a label, I also didn't have to worry about anything getting jammed.

View Quoted Comment Wish I had a Cricut 🥺 what date do you recommend for RSVPs? Now that I'm getting all these ideas I am definitely going to change it.

We used labels for the return addresses and handwrote guests' addresses for our invites!

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I did 5 weeks before my date. That gave me enough time to hunt the stragglers down and still order some of the last minute, count dependent things I needed.

My wedding is April 25th!
I have the exact same timeline. Im sending my early I need to make centerpieces and we have a lot of out of town guests.

View Quoted Comment Yayyy we are wedding twins. What date are you mailing yours?