Wedding Etiquette for Sending Invitations
You have just become engaged and have made all
the rounds of announcements of the wonderful event. Now that things
have settled, you and your future husband have finally picked a
date.
The next thing to do is shop for the perfect invitation.Wedding
etiquette for sending invitations guides you to get this in the
mail as soon as you have everything set in stone, so picking the
design and RSVP card should be the first thing on the list along
with venue, dress, etc.
If you know you will have guests from long distances,
you may want to consider sending a “save the date” card
now to give them time to make arrangements.
No more than four months before the big day, you
should make your final selection of a wedding invitation and place
your order. This gives you plenty of time for any glitches that
may arise. Usually, you can expect to have them in with lots of
time to spare so that you can address them all properly.
Following wedding etiquette for addressing the
envelopes, you should begin this task around three months ahead
of time. Depending on how many guests you plan to invite, this may
take a while. You might need to have a checklist to check off when
an RSVP has been returned.
Wedding etiquette for sending invitations does
not require that you put their name on the response card, but a
name or number would be helpful to you in keeping track of who has
replied and who hasn’t.
Wedding etiquette for sending invitations suggests
mailing your wedding invitations 6 to 8 weeks before the wedding
date. If the wedding date is near a holiday when people may make
other plans, it is advisable to stay closer to the 8-week suggestion.
At the two-month mark, you should determine the
postage of a wedding invitation that has been put together fully:
invitation, response card, inner and outer envelope. It is good
wedding etiquette when sending the invitations to provide postage
for the response card also.
Make sure to have the RSVP date set at no less
than 2 weeks before the event to give yourself enough time to give
final headcounts to the caterer and/or venue.
On the day of, or as close as possible to, wedding
etiquette for sending invitations tells us to send out wedding announcements
to those who could not be invited.
You may have had to limit the number of guests
due to venue size, budget, or the fact that it’s a second
wedding and kept small. A wedding announcement lets those people
know of your change in marital status without obligating you to
provide more seating.
Of course, once you have followed proper wedding etiquette in sending
your invitations, you don’t want to stop there. After the
wedding you will need to send out thank you notes, which is a whole
other set of etiquette rules.
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