For a number of reasons, I would love to dedicate a portion of our ceremony to friends/family. First, I wanted to ask parents/grandparents for their blessings (and perhaps have those who are comfortable stand and read those aloud for a few minutes during the ceremony). Those requests can be done in person or by phone. But I'd like to go a step further, since we have other close friends or family friends who might like to be included, and do something similar to the wine box ceremony, where people *who want to* bring sealed letters and deposit them into a box with the understanding that they will be read later (usually on an anniversary or during a time of great turmoil in the marriage).
I'm struggling with how to present this request without making it seem like a writing assignment or putting pressure on anybody who might, for whatever reason, not want to do this. Would it work to just put an insert card with the invites saying this is something we are doing as part of our ceremony? Thoughts?