Help with Invitation wording!!

brittlenay

Well - after being engaged for 9 months and having our "hour away location" booked for about 8, we decided to scratch it and go to Mexico!! We are planning for April - I am thinking because its so late it will be just our immediate family and a few close friends, we have also decided to a really informal reception a week or 2 after we are back. I want everyone to feel welcome to join us in Mexico - but don't want anyone to feel obligated. How can I word this??? All I can think of is "We would love for you to help us celebrate at either or both" !?! Help please!!

mmm4763

Welcome!

First is to realize that the wedding and the AHR are two separate events--so the information for these would be in 2 separate invitations.

Also, an invitation is by no means an obligation, so feel free to invite whoever you would like to either event.

Ladies, please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but that's been my general understanding. Others who have navigated the AHR will probably be of more help on that front, but as a guest who has received DW invitations and AHR I have never felt obligated or offended by any of the invites

rehlinga

I am planning a Hawaii wedding and then a reception back home 2-3 weeks later.  We created a website that better explained our plans and hopes that people would come to either or both. We were also able to do two seperate RSVPs using the website too. 

 

For invitations we put both on the same invite.  Invitations are expensive enough as it is. Plus we wanted people to know they could go to both.  Zazzle.com has some good, and cheaper, templates and invites.

We are going to word the invites along the lines of--Nam and Name would like to announce their marriage to be held XYZ.  A reception in State will be held XYZ.  We hope you will be able to attend one of both of these celebrations as we begin our new adventure together...

 

Hope this helps!

missmo14

We just sent the invitations to both DW and AHR in the same envelope. Guests understood that they could come to either event or both. We are having our AHR before the wedding as an opportunity for guests to meet and mingle before Vegas. Ofcourse we havent called it a 'reception'. I dont think DW invitations are obligations at all. Especially if you are having an AHR.