Save the Dates -- How Soon is Too Soon?

I am in the same situation. I have a lot of guest traveling and I am also getting married labor day of 2018. I'm ordering them tonight and per my reception hall they want a head count and for the guest to book their rooms in the block. I hope a year out isn't too soon.

I can't see myself as a guest making any kind of commitment or booking a hotel room a year out.

We're sending our save the dates out 8 months in advance, and plenty of our prospective guests are from out of state (or out of country). But depending on the circumstances of your wedding date (holiday, destination), a year might be reasonable.

Destination wedding you send out at 10 months out

Same situation.

I would send them 10 months out for out of the country.

8 months of out of state

6 months for local.

It is too early. One of our friends did it a year out and I'm about to take their STD off the fridge because it's already been there for months and months. Do 10 months out. It's what I did for my destination wedding and we quickly found out that very few people bothered to look at flights until they received the actual invite. Send the invites 3 months in advance.

Our wedding was Memorial Day weekend, and sending save the dates eight months ahead was still ample time for guests to make arrangements.

I am getting married Memorial Day weekend and sent mine out about 2 weeks ago. 9 mo was the earliest I considered. It is courteous to give people time to plan for holiday weekends but a year out is too soon. IMO

I am also the weekend of Labor Day next year. I plan on doing ten months out for our wedding. 85% of our guest list is from OOS so we want to give them ample notice. But all the hotels I contacted to inquire about hotel blocks said I couldn't even set them up until Jan/Feb of 2018 anyway so ten months would be plenty of time to give your guests notice.

Yeah my save the dates will be going out over the next 2 weeks and our wedding is June 23rd 2018...it is out of state though so we were told to ensure guests had 8-10 months to plan.

I would send in December as a happy holidays and save the date letter. That gives people 9 months which falls into the 8-10 timeframe.

Just make sure your budget accommodates everyone you send a STD to because if they get one, they need an invitation.

Sending ours out after Labor Day. It's 9 months out. We have a lot of oos guests.

We have people coming from out of state and out of the country and getting married a few days before Christmas. We had no physical STDs but since everyone making the trip is family we used word of mouth and digital this was 10 or so months ago. Almost everyone booked their flights and hotels/airbnbs 8 months before the wedding.

I've seen 10 months is standard for destination weddings. It is so hard not to send them! I wanted to order ours STDs as soon as we got our engagement photos back. So I designed them and then waits for a sale to buy them. Honestly when they came I didn't rush to start addressing them. September will be 9 month and we are just starting to address them. Having plenty of time and not feeling rushed is definitely nice!

I'd say no more than 10 months.

I sent mine out about two weeks ago! 8-10 months is a good time frame in my opinion!

I'm getting married in October of 2018. I'm sending them a year in advance because if I waited until 10-8 months before, I'm worried it will get lost in the Christmas card shuffle!

Plus, if it's considered destination for any of your guests, a year is more than enough time.

I'd rather have too much notice than not enough!

Girl if you're that excited to send them out, do it!

We are sending ours out this weekend. We received one several months ago for a wedding in September of next year.

Flights don't become available until 10 months out so I would recommend 10 months out instead of a year. I'm getting married this weekend and I sent mine 9 months out. It was plenty of time for everyone to make arrangements

There's no reason to send them out more than 10 months in advance. 8 months is really the best time frame in my opinion. It doesn't matter if it's Labor Day weekend. No one has next years Labor Day planned already. Relax. Set them aside. Send them in 4 months. I ordered mine and didn't send them for 8 months. They sat in my closet until I just recently sent them out.