Too late for Save the Dates?

It’s cutting it close. Skip the postcards and get on the phone to call everyone on your guest list. That is going to be cheaper, faster and more efficient than anything in the mail.

I sent my save the dates almost a year out .. I feel like you should just skip the save the dates now and wait to mail out your invitations! Also I agree with the person above ! Call around and let people know the date. If you send out wedding invitations to early then you might get a wrong head count

You can also create a mock up of save the dates and email/text it to your guests.

I don’t think it’s too late to do STDs. If you want to do them, I say go for it! Thanks to the pandemic causing so many postponements, people are being invited to more weddings than ever before. And after being cooped up for so long with quarantines, people are itching to travel. I think it would be a smart idea to send out STDs in order for your guests to get your date on their calendars, and plan around it. Especially with so many out of town guests who will have to arrange travel in advance. (i’ve noticed flights and hotels are booking up way further in advance this year!)

I'd send something- whether it's a formal save-the-date or something over email, phone, or text- just so your out of town guests have a heads up to start looking for flights and hotels. Since you just got engaged, I don't see why a mailed save-the-date would be an issue if that's what you want to do, but email, phone, or text would be quicker if that's the goal.

I don't think its too late if you want them. My coworker got married last year and we got his save the dates in April for his August wedding (and all of his family was on the other side of the country). Your STDs and Invites will be sent closer together than "tradition" but definitely not too late - if you want them, get em!

Congrats! I would still send them!

I would skip them. You can send invites 2 months in advance.

5 months' notice is better than nothing. As someone who did paper save-the-dates, I recommend sending them digitally. We spent so much $$ on ours, yet most people didn't even go to the website and forgot the date. We had people still asking us basic questions very close to the wedding, because they ignored the info we had sent. If you send them via email, you can do it ASAP, you'll save money, and people may (hopefully) be more likely to click and read the website.

Spread the word without save the dates if it's less of a headache, or go ahead and send them. I sent them in late May/early June for my Nov. 20 wedding last year. We did have one person who my husband had wanted in the WP who couldn't make it bc he already had plans at that point - that was on my husband for not verbally communicating the date earlier, we'd known it for a while by then! For everyone else, it seemed to be adequate notice. I even had several people I happened to talk to prior to sending them who said "please don't send them any sooner than 6 months out, I won't keep it on my fridge that long and I'll forget" (and no these were not members of the older generation who aren't familiar with the invention of electronic calendars! LOL).