When did you send your STD?

Lol. I'm also in health care. I sent mine 6 months out. My people need to coordinate schedules pretty far out. It was effective for most.

6-8 mo is standard IRL. Those blogs you mentioned have accurate info.

STD announcements are unnecessary, though, especially if your guest list is fairly local and you've checked with your MVPs that the date works for them.

Sending STDs locks you into a guest list early, because everyone who gets one Must also get a formal invitation.

6-8 months for you I'd say. Usually that's what it is.

We are having a DW and plan to send them out by the end of this month.

I'm planning to send mine next month at around 8 months out, since we have a good number of out of town guests and it's the weekend after a holiday.

We were supposed to get them this weekend, but apparently the package was damaged on the way and it's being returned. Good thing we have lots of buffer time!

I sent them out 10 months out because all of my family are all out of town and my wedding is on a Sunday evening. They need to take off and I wanted to give them enough time to plan to attend. My cousins and aunts appreciated the early notice so they could make arrangements to come.

I sent a private facebook message to family once we secured the venue (this is our primary way off mass communication in our family). Vast majority are out of town.

Then I sent my Save the dates 7 months out. Mostly to out of town guests only and a few local because I don't talk to them often.

Invitations will go out 2.5 month but only because I have to give my venue final numbers 30 days out.

I'm also in health care and was very confused when I first got on here! I was like why is everyone talking about STD's?!

I'm hoping to send mine out before the end of next month so about 6 months in advance.

I will do 8 months because a lot of our guest (like his entire family almost) will be traveling to us and will need to make travel plans! But I think 6 months is good too! Especially if the majority of your guest don't have to worry about travel - I think that is plenty of time!

I sent ours out at 6 months. Most of my family is oot and they still said it was plenty of time to mark their calendars. If it was over a holiday weekend I would have sent them 8 months out.

For a destination wedding I would have sent them 8-10 months out.

I only sent to our VIP guests so we wouldn't lock in our guest list too early.

When everyone is so close to you I wouldn't send them at all they are unnecessary and your locking your guest list very early. For those who are abroad or a little bit further you could just call or message them the details to give them the heads up.

I sent mine out 6.5 months in advance and only to VIP OOT guests and local VIP's. I didn't send them to everyone on my guest list.

We sent them 6 months out. It was plenty of time even for our out of town guests.

As soon as we booked our venue but we booked our venue less than 6 months before our wedding date and the majority of our guests are OOT. If your guests are all local, I'd say to skip it and just contact those who are out of the country personally.

Since most of your guest are local, you could save money by skipping the STD's or by buying just a few and sending them to OOT guest. 6-8 months is standard for STD. But 6-8 weeks should be more than enough time for locals (which is the recommended time frame for invitation mailings)

We sent ours about 6 months out.

I sent some via paperlesspost to people who had a long way to travel (some people are in Nigeria) and also others oot. I have paper ones for older people without email and we are sending those between 6-7 months before our wedding (so basically now lol). Most of our guest list is OOT (like 95%.) but if they were mostly local I wouldn't have sent any. We got them for $11 on vista print.

I sent mine out 7.5 months out, mostly because I was excited! Also, about 2/3 of our guest list are OOT guests and I wanted them to have hotel information available early.

6-8 months is when most people send them (if you decide to send them). I sent ours a little before 8 months. A lot of people on FH's side were told verbally but then FBIL got engaged and was deciding to have his wedding before ours so I just wanted people that weren't told verbally to be prepared especially because both weddings would require travel.

Thank you everyone! Gave me a lot to consider since it is on Sunday and we do have older guests that would be better reminded with a paper STD.

Hahaha I told my fiance about the STD thing the other day! We did 7 months ahead and send our invitations NEXT MONTH!!! We'll see how well that goes...