Save the Dates

January isn’t too early. I sent my save the dates out at the end of June for my March 2021 wedding!

For my original date (July 2020), we sent out our Save The Dates in January 2020, since we're doing a semi destination wedding in our state. All of our guests will need to travel, so we sent them a little early to give everyone time to make travel plans. We've since postponed to July 2022, so we'll send out our new Save The Date cards in January 2022. I think sending out the Save The Dates 6-8 months ahead of time is ideal, though with all the weddings being postponed to 2021, I don't think there's anything wrong with sending them out a little earlier. I think January would be fine in this case!

Typically, Save the Dates go out 6-8 months before the wedding. However, as you stated with the amount of weddings that will be rescheduled next year, I don't think January would be too far out of that time frame to worry. Send away!

Save the dates are typically sent out anywhere from 6-12 months ahead. You could easily send them nowif you wanted.

We sent ours the end of January for our October wedding. We didn’t want to send them too early because people would have still forgotten.

9-12 months ahead works if a lot of guests will have to travel. We’re getting married in October 2021, too, and are also planning to send ours in January.

For our upcoming 10/10 wedding, we actually sent ours out at the end of March. I'm glad we waited (our planning checklist said to send in December)... Most had basically lost the STDs even being sent so late. So, when we sent the invitations (about 3 weeks earlier than planned), it was a friendly and good reminder for them

I thought save the dated went out about 9 months on advance. There should be a timeline on your weddingwire profile yoy fan utilize.

Thank you everyone! Glad to know I'm not the only one who has erred on the side of early Save the Dates! We will shoot for January Thanks again!

6-8 months is the typical time to send STDs. January is a little early in my opinion, but based on Covid, I think it is fine.

I think if you anticipate having a lot of people needing to travel to your wedding, then I think January is fine. Our families are spread out across the country, so we sent STDs in February for our October wedding to let people have time for booking flights.

I think January would be fine! We're 10/10 this year and sent them out in February.

We sent our save the dates out about 8 months prior to our wedding day. Like others have said here, 6-8 months is the recommended time, however if you are having a lot of people traveling, then you might want to send them earlier. Especially with the ongoing pandemic, everything is in disarray, so giving people as much time as possible to make their plans is for the best. There really isn't such a thing as "too early," unless you are sending them out more than 12 months in advance. Everyone's situation is different, and certain things might work better for some than others, so do what you think works best for you. Here is a stationary timeline that might be able to help you out with your STDs and invitations: https://www.magnetstreet.com/wedding-stationery-timeline

Too early save the dates are ones you forget entirely before the wedding invitations come. Too soon to make arrangements or ask for work time off, so you put them aside til the invitations come. Lots of people are not a great distance, and for local weddings not on a holiday, regular ivitations at 6-8 weeks or Saves at 4-5 months are plenty of notice.

Depends on a lot of things! I received a STD for my friends October 2021 wedding in July because they were worried 2020 couples would reschedule to their date if it wasn’t put out there. I’m also October 2021 and plan to send them in a month or two so ~12 months in advance. My wedding planner I bought has it in the 9-12 month category and “ASAP if a destination for most guests”. I live out of state and met my FH here so his whole family will be traveling to my home state. Honestly all of the STDs I’ve ever received have been closer to a year in advance. We also have 7 weddings in 2021 before our own and so we have to plan out all of our vacation days for the year since we only get a couple weeks per year and also want to take a long honeymoon. When my FBIL got married they sent them out 6 months in advance and some people had to change their vacation plans. In my opinion 6 months is kinda late even 7 or 8 for anyone who needs to take off work and travel. Just some things to keep in mind. I think January is perfectly fine.


We’re sending out a magnet STD with a link to our wedding website so hopefully it won’t get lost and forgotten on someone’s fridge 😊

Our date is 9/18/21 and pre-COVID we planned on sending them out in January because we have a lot of out of state folks. HOWEVER, now that so many events are getting moved to next year, we're sending ours out the first week of September. I've already had multiple people almost book on the same day as ours, so I figure the earlier the better.

We didn't plan on doing Save the Dates at all. But, do to Covid and many weddings from 2020 getting rescheduled to 2021 we wanted to make sure our family and friends had ours on the books. Plus technically we have a destination wedding (Eau Claire Wisconsin where no one we know lives because it's pretty halfway where my family in Minnesota lives and his family from the Milwaukee area is) so it helps to give people time to get hotels and stuff.

For our wedding next August we just sent out our save the dates since for destination weddings the timeline is suggested to be 8-12 months.

I am getting married on 9/12/2021.

I have my save the dates sealed and stamped. I have a ton of people traveling from all over the country. A lot of them are people who need a lot of warning and prep time. It's not an assumption, it is just a conversation that I have had with some family members who live in rural areas. I will probably drop mine off in the next week or two. It'll be a little under a year.

But with COVID I feel like everyone needs a little bit of extra warning.