Wedding Invitations?

Did you send out Save the Dates already, particularly to the out-of-town guests?

Daughter's wedding was mid-January, this year. Invitations went in the mail Thanksgiving week, with RSVPs due Christmas Day. At least a third of the guests were out of state or international. RSVPs were 100% online and everything worked out great. On the due date, there were only 10 guests/3 households we hadn't heard from and we had those resolved within 2 days. She had an 80% positive response and no no-shows. Eight weeks in advance is the rule of thumb and it worked perfectly for us.

Yep! I sent out Save the Dates months ago. However, they only had the date and location but not necessarily any hotel information.

Whew that makes me feel a bit better! My wedding is January 25th 2020. I'm like almost in panic mode because some people have started asking me and other family about hotel accommodations which I get but I figured they could just get from the formal invitation... I just wasn't sure if it's enough time though. I'm working on setting up an online RSVP as well to hopefully make the process more seamless.

Daughter's website was on The Knot, and it was awesome. About half the guests were invited to the Rehearsal/Welcome dinner (wedding party and all out-of-town guests), so she had two different RSVPs set up on the website and it was seamless -- even with meal choices, etc.

If your out-of-town guests don't yet have the website address, with the accommodation info, I might email/text it to them before sending out the invitations. We just emailed OOT'ers and told them we didn't do a block (there are so many options where the wedding was and it was off-season, so not really an issue), but that the website had info about locations/options they might consider in booking their accommodations. We probably had people stay in 8-10 different locations, depending on their plans, length of stay, and chain preferences. It worked out fine. Good luck!

Thank you so much for this advice and information! I'll definitely work on getting info out about the website and accommodations before the formal invite.

We sent save the dates 10 months out, and invites 3 months out. Guests had their invites for 6 weeks before we asked for the RSVP.