Mailing Save the Dates

I sent mine 10 months out

I sent mine out about 6 months in advance. Depending on how many out of town guests you have, you may want to send them earlier.

STD's are generally sent 6 months before your wedding date. I am getting married October 5, 2019 and we mailed ours the first week of April 2019.

We sent ours out in October for our June wedding, so about 8 months out.

We mailed ours about 11 months in advance (about a month after we set the date). Over half of our guest list is traveling and I have military family members. So the sooner the better was best for us.

We're going to send ours out about 10 months in advance since we have quite a few out of town guests, so, September of this year. Depending on how many out of town guests you've got, I've heard between a year and 8 months in advance is normal. So I'd imagine any time between now and September would be good for you guys.

I have a handful of people who travel and are moving, ect, so we're sending them 10 months in advanced.
If your guests are more settled they probably only need 8 months max for STD

Probably 8 months in advance because it was a DW.

We sent ours 11 months in advance which ended up working out for us, but I would NOT recommend sending them that soon.

It was pretty stressful since we sent them to so many people very early on out of excitement, and then we were basically locked into a guest list that early on and had very little wiggle room. There were a few people who we sent a save the date to 11 months in advance that a few months later, when we wanted to make some cuts, realized we would have wanted cut some of those people (as we weren't as close with them a few months after sending the save the dates) but we couldn't. Like I said, it ended up working out for us (the few people that we wouldn't have invited ended up not coming anyway, and we got way more declines than we expected in general so the guest list being too big wasn't as much as an issue as I had worried about) but I would've saved myself a lot of stress if I hadn't sent save the dates to so many people so early on.

I'd say 8 months is the furthest in advance that I'd recommend sending them. If you're really excited and if you have relatives or very best friends who want to know sooner, you can always either (1) just tell them the date, or (2) if you want to give them something formal, then send an early save the date JUST to your VIPs. (And by VIPs I mean, immediate family and bridal party). This way you're notifying the people who really need to know this far in advance, but you're not locking yourself into a full guest list when you still have 11 months before the wedding, and friendships can change.

I'm getting married in May 2020 as well and I sent mind out about 2 weeks ago. All of our guests will have to drive at least 3 hours (some more) to the venue so I wanted to be sure everyone had plenty of heads up. If your guests are not out of town, I'd say send them 6-8 months in advance.

I am getting married June 2020. We are sending out out STDs by September this year and our invitations by February next year. I am not following etiquette on this.

We mailed ours 10 months out, but we had a lot of out of state guests & included hotel block information. Plus our wedding is in the summer so people planned for other vacations & weddings too.

I'm getting married may 9th 2020 and sent mine out this week. Most of our guest list is from out of town so it needed to be done as soon as possible. If your looking for a website I used basic invites and they came out great! Plus they were one of the cheaper ones that I found online with tons of templates.

We're sending ours out next month for our February wedding! We would've sent them out earlier, but our engagement shoot isn't until next Friday. We wanted to use an engagement picture for it.

We sent our in April 2019 for our February 2020 wedding. However it is a destination wedding so people will need to arrange travel in order to come.

I sent mine 9 months out. This was because I have some guests from out of town as well as I have family that usually goes on vacation the same time as my wedding so I wanted to make sure they had the date before they set their vacation for the year.

I sent mine 8 months out. Sent them in November for July wedding.

My wedding was on a Friday and an hour or more away from 90% of the guests so we sent them 11 months out. I recommend sending them at least 8 months out, because any less than that guests might already be making other plans and wouldn't be able to "save" your date

Ours went out 6 months before. I probably would've sent them a little sooner, but we didn't get our engagement pictures done until a few weeks before and we wanted to use those for the save the dates. I probably wouldn't have done mine more than 7 months before though.

I mailed mine out Feb 2019 for our Sept 2019 wedding.