Wedding Invitations

When To Send Out Wedding Invitations

When to send out the wedding invitations? Sounds like a familiar question, doesn’t it?

Things usually get a bit out of hand when you are trying, on your own, to plan a grand scale event like the wedding ceremony. No wonder wedding planners exist.

But relax, take a deep breath and read this article about the do’s and don’ts of sending a wedding invitation.

In most cases the wedding invitations come from the bride’s house and are sent even to the groom’s closest friends.

The wedding invitation should contain basic information about the wedding ceremony like the name of the bride and groom, the name of their parents, the date and location, with directional signs; sometimes the couple would like to personalize their wedding invitations and choose for a unique design or add a personal touch to the wording etiquette.

If some guests are out of town take notice and send them a “save the date” card, with some hotel suggestions, several months in advance, and add a RSVP date of minimum two weeks to your wedding invitations if you sent the wedding invitations with six weeks in advance or three weeks in case you sent them on time, to make the proper arrangements for the upcoming ceremony.

If you are planning to celebrate your wedding day close to popular holidays like Christmas, Thanksgiving or Easter day, make sure to mail these save the date wedding invitations with several months in advance.

In an ideal case scenario the wedding invitations should be mailed eight so six weeks in advance, but everyone knows things sometimes don’t go according to plan and here we find the usefulness of the save the date wedding invitation card. This card acts like a reminder for the sendees that an important event will take place in the near future so they better stay tuned for some more information about it or that they should expect for a formal wedding invitation to arrive any moment now.

That is….if the couple doesn’t forget! Sure, sure, it’s less likely that this will happen, but don’t dare forget it could!

For sending these wedding invitations you can always use a fast mail courier or the cheaper version, meaning the postal services. Things go a lot easier in this era of fast technological development so once sent they should arrive in time at their destinations.

Things were a lot different back in the beginning of the twentieth century, not to mention way before, when families sent the invitations through a courier and since there were no “addresses” to mail them to, people would often use directional signs to guide the courier and reach the correct destination: these could’ve been a bridge, an inn, a forest, a known road, etc. The couriers used horses to travel in between towns, but they often reached the destination with the wedding invitation dirtied or ripped: this is the origin of the double envelope.

Anyway, you should be thankful is everything goes smoothly and be sure to enjoy your wedding ceremony with your invited guests as much as possible. Also, a very important thing: if you don’t want someone to attend to your wedding party, just don’t send them a wedding invitation, you could avoid this way some moments of embarrassment if they do show up by surprise!