Carlie Goodge
Carlie Goodge 10 Oct 2019

Invitations

How long before your wedding day did you send out your invitations? a year? months? weeks?

32 Comments
Kirsty Thomas
Kirsty Thomas 11 Oct 2019

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Beverley Farrand
Beverley Farrand 11 Oct 2019

About 6 months.

Devan Cresswell
Devan Cresswell 11 Oct 2019

Honestly depends when it is, if it’s school holiday time and you have kids coming then I would send them out between 9-12 months before only so your guests don’t books holidays etc

Victoria Holt
Victoria Holt 11 Oct 2019

We sent ours out about 9 months before xx

UKbride Administrator
UKbride Administrator 11 Oct 2019

We get married in May 2020 and have sent the save the date cards 12 months previous but won’t be sending the actual invites out till January after the Christmas period is over x

Kirsty Cleall
Kirsty Cleall 11 Oct 2019

We did ours earlier because our wedding was good Friday .... about ten months before xxx

Emma Jean Buckland
Emma Jean Buckland 11 Oct 2019

6 months before xx

UKbride Administrator
UKbride Administrator 11 Oct 2019

6 months x

UKbride Administrator
UKbride Administrator 11 Oct 2019

I'm getting married august 2021 and we are sending save the date cards in Feb/March time because where it's the school holiday

Karen Wernham
Karen Wernham 11 Oct 2019

we sent ours out in the new year, wed in june.

Jody Pescud
Jody Pescud 11 Oct 2019

I'm sending save the dates 9 months before and invites 6 months before x

UKbride Administrator
UKbride Administrator 11 Oct 2019

Save the dates for full day or evening only 12 months in advance, then all normal invites for day and evening sent 6/8 months before hand as you need final numbers at least 6 weeks before the big day

Sarah Batchelor
Sarah Batchelor 11 Oct 2019

Getting married feb 2020, just sent the invites this week

UKbride Administrator
UKbride Administrator 11 Oct 2019

9 months

Emily Coleman
Emily Coleman 11 Oct 2019

We sent invites with 6 months notice, we needed menu choices back and still had plenty of time to organise it

UKbride Administrator
UKbride Administrator 11 Oct 2019

We sent out save the dates about a year before as we got married on the 1st weekend of August. Then sent out invites at Easter. Xx

Andrea Lawlor
Andrea Lawlor 11 Oct 2019

Save the dates were done about a year before as we had family from Canada/US/New Zealand coming so we wanted to give them plenty of time to book flights/hotels.

The actual invitations were sent out 4 months before with RSVPs to be back no later than 6 weeks before the date.

UKbride Administrator
UKbride Administrator 11 Oct 2019

Save the date 11 months before and then invitations 16 weeks before wedding with them having to be back to me 4 weeks before the wedding to finalise numbers

UKbride Administrator
UKbride Administrator 11 Oct 2019

Sent the save the dates to arrive a year to the day x
Invitations about 6 months before x

UKbride Administrator
UKbride Administrator 11 Oct 2019

Didn't do save the dates so sent invites out 6 months before date of wedding.

Abi Owen
Abi Owen 11 Oct 2019

We sent invitations about 5 months before the big day. We only had 6 months planning time anyway but had it been longer I possibly would have sent them earlier than 5 months before!

UKbride Administrator
UKbride Administrator 11 Oct 2019

Six weeks! We decided to get married before we moved to Portugal. It was all very sudden. We visited friends over in Portugal in August, looked at a few houses and put an offer in. We were married in November and moved to Portugal last year, in mid January.

Tracy Bailey
Tracy Bailey 11 Oct 2019

We sent ours in January, wedding was in June. Asked for people to RSVP by April. We had to chase a few people up but most got back to us in plenty of time 😊✉ We had already sent save the dates out last year 💍

UKbride Administrator
UKbride Administrator 11 Oct 2019

A year before for save the dates. 4-6 months before for actual invites.

UKbride Administrator
UKbride Administrator 11 Oct 2019

Charlotte Vernazza

UKbride Administrator
UKbride Administrator 12 Oct 2019

6 weeks is the norm here in Northern Ireland, we did 9ish weeks (8 prob by the time we got them all handed out for the local ones), just 'cause it was a Friday and wanted to give a couple weeks of a headsup for people booking off work. Though they all knew the date before their invite arrived anyways

Update: whaaattttt!? Where is everyone from that you send save the dates a year ahead and invites 6months ahead!?? We only decided our final guest list a couple of weeks before the invites went out

UKbride Administrator
UKbride Administrator 12 Oct 2019

I Got married in August and sent my invites out in march

Leanne Eden
Leanne Eden 12 Oct 2019

I get married in 8 months and sent mine out x

Sarah Gardiner
Sarah Gardiner 12 Oct 2019

Save the dates went out as soon as we booked the venue which was October last year, actual invites going out next month which will be 6 months untill the wedding

UKbride Administrator
UKbride Administrator 13 Oct 2019

About 6 months before xx

Sue Harpin
Sue Harpin 13 Oct 2019

I sent my invites out 4 to 6 months before wedding there is a wedding app that u can download and it tells u step by step how many months before to do each thing what needs to be done for ur wedding

Becky Mitchinson
Becky Mitchinson 10 Feb 2020

Save the dates 1 year
Invites 5 months

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