You should send wedding invitations out well in advance of the date so you have time to collect RSVPs and get a headcount for your wedding charter, catering, and hotel block. To ensure guests have time to make plans to attend, here are some recommendations for your invitation timeline.

Save-the-Date Cards

Send save-the-date cards if guests will be traveling to your ceremony and you’re providing wedding charters and hotel rooms. Guests need six to 12 months in advance to make travel arrangements for a faraway location. For local weddings, send the postcards four to six months early.

Wedding Invitations

The invitations need to be sent out four months before a destination wedding and six to eight weeks before events where most of the guests live nearby. If you’re coordinating catering, hotel rooms, wedding charters, and any other activities, include an RSVP card with a deadline for an accurate count before the event.

RSVP Reminders

For a destination wedding, you’ll want to review the RSVP list two months in advance and send a reminder postcard or email to the guests you haven’t heard from. An online site for the wedding is convenient for guests to RSVP and for you to keep track of them. Local events require reminders four to five weeks in advance. Provide final numbers a month ahead of the big day to wedding vendors.

If you need a wedding charter for an event, turn to AM Tours Hawaii. Serving Honolulu and the rest of Oahu since 1990, they have a fleet of comfortable and modern limousines, buses, and vans. They’ll provide efficient transportation to and from the ceremony and reception as well as an island tour if you and your guests want to take advantage of the wedding locale. Call (808) 845-5050 to book a reservation, or visit the website to see the fleet.