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I do think that's an early RSVP date. You should set your RSVP date based on when you need final counts or major deadlines that effect your guests (such as a hotel block releasing). We have a similar situation with all our family and most of our friends being out of state. I would send Save the Dates a no more than year in advance, invitations no more than three months, with an rsvp deadline around a month in advance (full disclosure I messed up my rsvp date on my invites and had or way early 😂, but we’re waiting to follow up on people who haven't responded)

I have to agree with Summerbride77. Your dates seem pretty far in advance. Sending the save the date early allows people to plan for travel. You don't need to send invitations that early or have that long of an RSVP window (you are just asking people to lose some of that stuff). Most people do not book flights until 2 months or so out anyway because that is usually when they are the cheapest. The Save the Date gives them enough time to plan and figure things out, and sending the invites 10 weeks out from the wedding allows plenty of time for them to finalize plans. I have tons of out of town family to, and they are all still figuring things out for my July 20, 2019 wedding. Some have already set aside the money and everything from the time they got the save the date (November 2018). Others, like my aunt in the Ukraine, just got her Visa to come to the US 2 weeks ago (which she applied for about a month ago). The risk of giving a very long RSVP window is that there is no sense of expediency like "I've gotta get on this." Instead, it's a lot of "ohhhh that's when? Yeah I'll look into it later," and finding the invite in a pile of papers months later.

My wedding is September 5 2020. Im sending my save the dates this September because majority of my guests are out of state so I want them to have the time to take off of work and make travel arrangements especially since it’s labor Day weekend. I’ll probably send my invitations out mid June and have the RSVP date early August!

Hi there Amber!

Welcome to the WeddingWire community

Typically with a home town wedding, couples send out save the dates between four and eight months in advance of your nuptials. With a destination wedding, they send them eight to 12 months before the big day.

As you’re having a wedding in your state, but a lot of folks coming from out of state and you want to give them plenty of notice, it could be a good idea to meet somewhere in the middle, 6 - 9 months in advance. With this notice, guests can start to make travel arrangements.

With the formal invites and RSVP date, you could follow the hometown wedding timeframes, or add a couple of weeks on to them if it makes you more comfortable. Couples planning hometown weddings usually send invites six to eight weeks before the event and set the RSVP deadline for about two to three weeks before the big day.

These articles from the WeddingWire ideas section are very helpful in figuring this out -

When to Send Save the Dates

When to Send Wedding Invitations

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