When To Order Wedding Invitations

We ordered ours two weeks ago

Where are you ordering from? We are getting married in October and already ordered ours but only because we were getting them from Vistaprint and caught a 50% off sale.

I ordered mine when I ordered out STDs because there was a sale going on for Magnetstreet where we got them from. It all depends on preference. I would want mine ordered about 3-4 months before. So you have time for them to get to you, then you have sometime to get them labeled and organized to send out about 2-2 1/2 months before your wedding.

I ordered mine when we got the Save the dates because there was a 75% off deal. But I ordered wayyyy too many like like 60 too many plus rsvp cards. So that’s $$ down the drain lol

I ordered mine about 4 months in advance (in January for a late May wedding).

I think the checklist on here says to order them like 6-7 months in advance, but I found that to be too early. Maybe if you are doing custom invites you need to worry about them that early, but I just ordered ours off of Basic Invite.

All of ours came for both our August DW wedding and October reception at home. I only ordered when I did because there was 50% off but since everything is set I figured better early than rushing!

I’m probaby going to order mine in July because that’s about when Vistaprint has their semi-annual sale. I know it’s early because our wedding isn’t until March, but I’d rather save money when I can!

We had ours made in November for a May wedding.

I know am getting married Februart 23 2019 and giving out my invitation in Dec 2018

It depends on where you are ordering them from. If you have all have the details locked down and they won't change, then watch for a good sale. I got mine a couple months ago on Vistaprint when they had a 40 or 50 percent off sale.

I am not ordering for my 9/22/18 wedding, for a few more weeks. I am indecisive & don't want to deal with it yet.

We just ordered ours at the beginning of March for our late-June wedding, and honestly I feel like we waited a bit too long. I expected to have them by now, but there have been some holdups/questions with the production, and won't have them before sometime next week at the earliest.

Once we get them, I'll have to assemble them (glue to a backer and to the pocket/holder) and address them all in a matter of about two weeks. I know I can do it, but I really didn't want to have to rush.

I'd order them as soon as you're sure that your details are set (we are having a plated dinner, so needed to finalize our entrees to print on the RSVP card) and when you have a good idea of your guest list's final numbers and the amount of invitations that you will need.

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Date twin! and #same lol.

I'm waiting to order mine as well. I figure I'll start looking around end of April/early May and then order by Mid-May to have them sent out mid-June.

As soon as I was 100% on the details o created mine and saved them for a sale! When they hit 50% off I ordered them. That was probably 6 months go. The savings made it totally worth it! And then I was able to prepare them leisurely!

You can order them as soon as your plans and guest list are 100% set in stone.

We're not ordering ours until after our next meeting with our Venue coordinator (sometime in April) because we're working on changing our Ceremony start time and I don't want to have to order anything twice. We got confirmation for the time change from the venue via email, but they also had a change in coordinators, so I don't want to take any chances that they forget about it.

I actually just read about this in Post Etiquette! They suggested sending them out 6-8 weeks before the wedding, budgeting 2 weeks to address them all, and leaving yourself 2 months between ordering them and actually needing them. I'm sure that's a lot longer than it needs to be with certain sites, but better safe than sorry. My wedding is end of September, so I'm ordering by end of May.