I need a bit of help with when to send out my invites. My wedding day is the 1st of June 2013 and the reception venue want final figures on the 30th April. So when do I send out the invites and do I send day and evening invites at the same time?
CommentAuthorJoanna
I'm getting married 22 June and I also am unsure as to when to send the invites :/
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CommentAuthorLulu1388
Ours is end of May and we're presuming that venue will want numbers end of April so going to send middle/end of jan - early feb time x
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CommentAuthorRachaelC84
Hiya, We are also getting married on the 22nd June and have been told to hand the invites out in February.
Have you got a lot more to sort our Joanna??
CommentAuthorJoanna
Yay, someone who shares my date :) Rachael, we're in the middle of making our own invitations now. We still have to get rings, bridesmaids dresses, flowers, centrepieces and book a honeymoon. What about you? Xxx
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I'm getting married 8th march, hoping to send invitations out in a few weeks x x
CommentAuthorIzzy_w
Hi Jenny, I am not getting married until Aug 2013, but planning on sending out invites in Jan - OH family is in Ireland and we're having a Friday wedding so people will need to book a day off work. Only thought it was polite to give them as much time as possible to organise (we also didnt send Save the Dates which kind of means we have to send the date out sooner rather than later.....) but it just depends on your circumstances x x
CommentAuthorCat
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I am getting married in Aug 2013 as well and I sent my save the dates and started a fbook event page at the end of September
I am planning to send out my invites end of Jan/Feb, but I am putting on the rsvp to reply by either May or June
CommentAuthorKateC95
I'm getting married april 2013 and we are putting our invites in our christmas cards!!
CommentAuthorElle23
We are getting married Aug 2013 but as Izzy, it is a Friday wedding, Bank hol w/end and during a lot of our family/friends summer holiday period We are therefore looking to send the invites out around jan/feb so the day can be booked off from work Its gonna be a popular time for annual leave, bank hol w/end always are
As for evening invites, I think what we are planning on doing is an earlier RSVP, say mid May so if we have many declines for the day, we have time to bump some guests from the evening list & they will have plenty of notice
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CommentAuthorTori
I would send them out just after xmas hun, that way they will have them in plenty of time and they won't get mixed up with xmas cards
CommentAuthorStaceyP91
Am wondering the same... Im getting married 27th July 2013, & have an rsvp of 20th May 2013... so not sure when to send them out. makes it more difficult that i have them here already lol
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CommentAuthorMrsGtobe
I was discussing this with my mum and she said to send them out 8weeks before but I was going to send out in June. I get married 21st September 2013, what do you think xx
CommentAuthorAndreaO86
im getting married beginning of feb i havent even got the invitations yet!!!!!! can you get day and evening invites or is it all together? xx
CommentAuthorkimi1987
im gettin married 25th may 2013 and will be sending mine out first thing january that way people cant 'accidently' throw them away. were having an rsvp of 20thapril that way i know how many to cater for and how many chair covers etc ill need.
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CommentAuthorLlosa
Im getting married in august and we are sending our invites out January so that people have enough time to decide and also people wont book any holidays then
CommentAuthorJennyY
I was thinking of sending them out in the January that way Christmas is out of the way and they have 3 months to reply in, we already had an issue with his stupid brother telling us we couldn't get married on the date we had already booked because he had wanted to go on holiday that date, he hadn't and still hasn't booked a holiday.
CommentAuthorMrsHarrison
We get married on 28th March 2013, but we are sending invites out at the end of this month for a few reasons. Firstly, H2B has family from Scotland, Ireland & London (we are in Yorkshire) - some of these relatives are also in the army. Our wedding also takes place in the Easter holidays (: I think about 3 months before though generally. x
CommentAuthorLinzi-jo
We will be sending our day invites out 6 months before as our venue needs final numbers 2 months before so the RSVP date will be 2 months after we send the invites. Then we will send the evening invites out 4 months before, and it also means we can bump some people up to day invites if some of our day guests can't make it without them realising they weren't originally down for the day xxx
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CommentAuthorElle23
Same here Linzi!
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CommentAuthorPammy
We're doing the same Linzi... don't want people to know if they weren't originally down for all day! Just need to figure out when to send them now. :) x
CommentAuthorLinzi-jo
Well we didn't want anyone to be offended thinking 'oh well we weren't good enough for all day but now so and so cant make it we are!' lol xx
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CommentAuthorGlitterfairy
I started to send mine out in may, got married beginning if October. Just wanted people to ensure they had plenty of notice
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CommentAuthorTatty
We are sending ours out six months before, save the dates a year before. We will be sending the day and night guests ones at the same time x
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CommentAuthorMrs-Mouse-2-be
Oh im lucky I don't have this problem. I am inviting evening guests only and I've no need to gather final numbers for my venue as they are allowing me 100 people maximum. I can, however still have an RSVP date so if people can't come I can invite more. :-)
CommentAuthorCatrinaP
im getting married in june sent invites out last month bit early but due to holidays and ppl having to book time off as its a friday wedding and ppl having to travel from england to scotland thought it was given them plenty time to book holiday of work and any holets they need to book also gives me better idea on who is coming how much i need to pay hotel for meals and if i need to invite anyone else to daytime if someone cant make it that i might otherwise have invited at night x
CommentAuthorKaren22
I'm getting married in August on a bank holiday so we've decided to send invites out the end of jan so people will know and RSVP end of may. Don't know about evening guests tho cos I have a few I want to bump up if I have spaces..
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CommentAuthorInDreamland
We're getting married 11th May 2013 and sending out invites end of January/beginning of February, people will then have a couple of months to rsvp and give us time to chase the stragglers. xx
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CommentAuthorLauraJo87
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We are getting married in August, Im think feb/march for the day invites and may/June for the evening.
Our venue doesn't need final figures til two weeks before, but we are having a guest list crisis and it would be helpful to know who can't come straight away so we can bump some of the evening guests.
Also, we are getting married on a Friday so people will need to book the day off, and April is the time most people are sorting their holidays out etc.
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CommentAuthorLauraJo87
Ps I was going to do save the dates, but my rabbit ate them :-(
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CommentAuthorLauraG76
Hi, I can see most of you are getting married next year ( congratulations :) ) I'm not getting married untill June 14 but we are getting married on a thrusday and was wondering when I should send out my inverstations, I want to make sure people have time to book time off work and send invites back, we have also got a back up list so if some people can't come to the day we can then invite others. With all this in mind any idea on when I should send mine out.
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CommentAuthorLauraJo87
If its a Thursday, I'd say a good six months before, so people can book the day off. Also, I'd put the date as 'Thursday 22 June' so guests are fully aware that it's a Thursday and they will need to book time off.
I'd maybe be tempted to send save the dates even earlier, and then you can get away with sending the invites a little later
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CommentAuthorVictoriaE35
We are getting married in 74 days and only sent invites out last week, we have given then until december 15th. If people can not make the day then thats fine just makes it cheaper for us x
CommentAuthorEloiseC62
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My wedding stationers offered some good advice on this one, if you have a look in their FAQs there are some hints on when to send out your invites. Basically you need to allow a month or there abouts for all your guests to get back to you but if you need to speed things up a bit, try setting up a dedicated email account for rsvps and put that on the rsvp slip, it's working a treat for me! If you get a chance have a look at LINK REMOVED
Good luck and don't stress! x
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