When Do I Send Invites and Save-the-Date Cards?
How far in advance should we send out save-the-date
cards? How about the invitations?
If you’re having a local wedding on a nonholiday weekend, it is
not necessary to send out save-the-date cards. Instead, just send
the invitations out about six weeks before your wedding date.
For a wedding taking place on a long weekend—which is often
centered around a holiday—save-the-date cards are a great
idea because people tend to make special plans early for these weekends.
Drop save-the-dates in the mail about five months before your big
day. Invitations for a long-weekend or holiday wedding should be
mailed out a little bit earlier, as well. (Aim for about two months
in advance.)
If you’re planning a destination wedding, your save-the-date
mailing should go out about 9–12 months prior to the wedding.
This gives guests plenty of time to make travel arrangements and
to plan to take extra time off from work if they want to stretch
your wedding into a vacation of their own. The actual invitations
for your far-away fling should be sent 21⁄2–3 months
prior to saying “I do.”
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