Engaged in Nov, STD/Invite sent out May I believe, most people already knew about it so they could be planning/saving. Like I said before I am not sending out another invitation. I included an early RSVP for people to get to me by August, Yes, no, maybe, to give me a rough idea. I am using a TA but I did not put money down on rooms. Everyone is booking through the TA, we were able to get a discount and we will get so much money back per guest booked. I knew everyone would be traveling on different days and staying at different lengths so I wanted to leave this open to my guest to do what they like. Plus I have been royally screwed putting deposits down for people and then not holding up to it. We have a wedding website, this was included in invites and all of the TA information is posted on there and my TA also composed an email that was sent out to everyone too. A majority of the people that RSVPd yes have already booked and my TA is updating me when anyone books and I know the No's already so there are a few maybes that are floating out there but we have a pretty good idea of who will most likely book and who will not. I'm not too concerned with final numbers yet.