When to send out the formal invites

Use Wedding Wire's check list.. They give you a timeline that is very helpful... But I think 2-3 months is a good amount of time

Rule of thumb is generally 6-8 weeks before unless it's a destination wedding. I'm getting married in August, and I'm sending my invites out late May (roughly 11-12 weeks before the date) with an RSVP date of July 15th. Our venue requires final numbers 2 weeks before (Aug 6th,) so I wanted to give myself a couple of weeks to hunt down RSVPs.

I think you'd be fine to send them out late August.

6-8 weeks

So, my wedding is end of June and we want all of our RSVPs back a little over a month before (May 20). We are sending them out either at the end of this week or beginning of next, based on when our invitations arrive!

I got married the day after you and sent my invites out the first week of September. Your friend sent hers quite early!

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Exactly what the previous posters said, send your invitations 6-8 weeks before the wedding date!

Your friend sent hers out way early. My wedding is before hers and I won't be sending mine out until the end of this month. Do you have a lot of OOT guests? They normally say 6-8 weeks but I wouldn't do more than 12.

I would say the earliest I would send them would be September. We plan on sending our invites at the end of July for our Oct 1 wedding.

We sent ours 3 months before because the rooms at our venue were only being held until 2 months before. (It's a lodge with 25 rooms that's connected to an event center.) I wanted to make sure people had time to book if that's what they wanted.

Thank you everyone! I wanted to check because I had heard that other brides were sending out invitations 4-6 months ahead which I thought was too early. Mine is a long weekend so I think I will send out late August to be on the safe side. Thanks again!

Wait until September. Unfortunately, there are a ton of overeager brides that are sending our their invites earlier and earlier. If you send them out too early, it's more likely that you won't get responses back in a timely manner because some people can't request time off from work several months in advance. As a result, guests set the invitations to the side and eventually forget about them. It also seems like you get more no shows.

We mailed our OOT invites more than 10-11 weeks before the wedding (they also got advance notice) and local invites 8 weeks before. The OOT guests are responding at a much slower rate for some reason.

SN: you will have to chase down RSVPs no matter what. just saying it might be worse if you mail your invites too early.