What should the "respond by" date be for our wedding invitation response cards?
September 14, 2009
It is November 23, 2008 and we will be sending out our wedding invitations within the next 10 days for our April 18, 2009 wedding. What date should we have on our "please respond by" line of our response cards? What is typical? Please help. (We are not asking guests to choose their entrees now, so that isn’t a factor.)
I got married on February 16th – we asked our guest to respond no later than January 25th. It gave our guests enough time to respond and it also allowed for extra time to contact the people who did not RSVP as well as for the people who sent in their RSVP cards late.
I think that asking people to respond one month to 3 weeks before the wedding is a good time…
4 Responses to “What should the "respond by" date be for our wedding invitation response cards?”
3 weeks before the wedding. So the end of March should be good.
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By Lillyan on Sep 15, 2009
I got married on February 16th – we asked our guest to respond no later than January 25th. It gave our guests enough time to respond and it also allowed for extra time to contact the people who did not RSVP as well as for the people who sent in their RSVP cards late.
I think that asking people to respond one month to 3 weeks before the wedding is a good time…
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By April Marie on Sep 15, 2009
2 weeks prior to the date of your wedding will give you plenty of time, and if you go much beyond that some will not want to committ that far in advance.
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By fresh_horses_7 on Sep 15, 2009
ok you are sending out the invitations waaaaaaaaaaaaaay too early. my wedding etiquette book says that the invitations should go out 6 to 8 weeks before the wedding,so that would be between Feb 21st and March 7th for you. Then it says you should give guests up until 2 weeks before the wedding to respond, so that would be by April 4th.
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By Sunny on Sep 15, 2009