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Invitation Timeline - What's yours?

bkal5043 Posted: Oct 21, 2013 04:22 PM+

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Posted: Oct 21, 2013 04:22 PM

Invitation Timeline - What's yours?

A couple questions regarding your invitations:

1. How far in advance of the wedding are you sending them?

2. How far in advance of the wedding are you requesting all RSVPs by?

I'm asking for an RSVP 5 weeks before the wedding and will prob send invitations 10 weeks before the wedding.. I'm curious if this is the norm :)

StephanieXO Posted: Oct 21, 2013 04:28 PM+

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Posted: Oct 21, 2013 04:28 PM

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From the consultations we received, it seems like the norm for us would be an RSVP date of 9/1/2014 for 10/4/2014 wedding, which means invites out by 8/1/2014 the latest, so really the last week in July. She explained that this means we need to order by Spring, approve proofs by summer, etc. HTH!

larlynn Posted: Oct 21, 2013 05:03 PM+

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Posted: Oct 21, 2013 05:03 PM

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For a Dec. 7th wedding I ordered in August, RSVP date 11/1 and sent them out on Sept. 27th. We had a bunch delivered 2-2.5 weeks after we sent, so I would definitely recommend sending early!

emmac Posted: Oct 21, 2013 05:55 PM+

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Posted: Oct 21, 2013 05:55 PM

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I just finalized my invitations and the lady said send them 10 weeks prior, this way if you have a B list those people won't know. And I believe my RSVP date is 5 weeks before my wedding

emmac Posted: Oct 21, 2013 05:55 PM+

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Posted: Oct 21, 2013 05:55 PM

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Sorry it went through twice

coffeeisgreen Posted: Oct 21, 2013 06:42 PM+

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Posted: Oct 21, 2013 06:42 PM

Re: Invitation Timeline - What's yours?

I'm gonna start looking at invites in March. I guess I'll send it out in mid August for a late October wedding. Is that good?

Soon2BeMrsPy Posted: Oct 21, 2013 07:27 PM+

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Posted: Oct 21, 2013 07:27 PM

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Our plan is send them for 11/2 or 11/9 not quite sure which yet, RSVP by 12/7 and wedding is 1/18. We don't want to get lost in the holiday shuffle.

That gives us a 4-5 week RSVP time frame and puts them 10-11 weeks from the wedding date.

Soon2BeMrsPy Posted: Oct 21, 2013 07:31 PM+

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Posted: Oct 21, 2013 07:31 PM

Re: Invitation Timeline - What's yours?

Posted by coffeeisgreen

I'm gonna start looking at invites in March. I guess I'll send it out in mid August for a late October wedding. Is that good?

I think that if it is 10/25 you could get away with sending 8/16, which puts you at the 10 week mark and have them RSVP by probably 9/20 or 9/27. That gives them 4-5 weeks for response.

KTF11 Posted: Oct 21, 2013 08:21 PM+

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Posted: Oct 21, 2013 08:21 PM

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amanda1126 Posted: Oct 21, 2013 08:43 PM+

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Posted: Oct 21, 2013 08:43 PM

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I already got my invitations for my 4/26 wedding. I put 3/14 as an RSVP date. I plan on sending them out mid January.

amanda1126 Posted: Oct 21, 2013 08:44 PM+

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Posted: Oct 21, 2013 08:44 PM

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Double post!

Lguido Posted: Oct 21, 2013 10:26 PM+

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Posted: Oct 21, 2013 10:26 PM

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I was just looking at invitations today & were going to send them out 3 months before our wedding & the RSVP date is 6 weeks before the wedding.

Gambigoo Posted: Oct 21, 2013 10:41 PM+

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Posted: Oct 21, 2013 10:41 PM

Re: Invitation Timeline - What's yours?

Posted by emmac

I just finalized my invitations and the lady said send them 10 weeks prior, this way if you have a B list those people won't know. And I believe my RSVP date is 5 weeks before my wedding

This always confused me, lol. So you will send them 10wks out but then when will u send the B list (if needed)? It seems like people wait til the last minute to RSVP, so how long would u wait to send out the B list invites? And would their RSVP be the same as the A list? Hope this makes sense, haha. We want to try to stay at our 150 minimum so we have a B list as well. I guess when I'm closer to doing invites someone can help me out.

coffeeisgreen Posted: Oct 22, 2013 12:28 AM+

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Posted: Oct 22, 2013 12:28 AM

Re: Invitation Timeline - What's yours?

Posted by Soon2BeMrsPy

Posted by coffeeisgreen

I'm gonna start looking at invites in March. I guess I'll send it out in mid August for a late October wedding. Is that good?

I think that if it is 10/25 you could get away with sending 8/16, which puts you at the 10 week mark and have them RSVP by probably 9/20 or 9/27. That gives them 4-5 weeks for response.

Thanks so much!

Terriechick Posted: Oct 22, 2013 10:29 AM+

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Posted: Oct 22, 2013 10:29 AM