9 to 12 months in advance
Checklist: Communicate with Your Attendants
Carefully consider your attendants’ budgets when selecting their outfits. Provide the following information to enable attendants to place their orders:
- The shop for purchase or rental
- Mode, style, and hemline measurement
- Swatch for matching shoes
- Costs
- Date due and amount of deposit
- Pickup and return instructions for rentals
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Checklist: Ordering Invitations
Checklist of Invitation Needs
- Finalize your guest list. Determine how many invitations you need to order. You need one invitation for each couple, each single guest, and if possible, each child age thirteen or older.
- Don’t forget the wedding party. Include invitations for the officiant, the parents of the bride and groom, and your attendants. Put their names on your master guest list so that you will include them in any head counts.
- Order extras. Order extra invitations (at least a dozen, to save as keepsakes and to send to forgotten guests) and extra envelopes (as many as twenty-five, to accommodate addressing mistakes).
- One envelope or two? Formal, third-person invitations are traditionally inserted into two envelopes, an inner envelope and an outer envelope. The outer envelope carries the return address (printed) and the recipient’s name and address (calligraphed or handwritten). The inner envelope, left unsealed, bears only the names of the people invited. An inner envelope is unnecessary for an informal wedding.
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