Wasn't sure if I should post this here or on the etiquette board, but anyway. To make a long story short, we had planned an AHR for October but due to a conflict with a job I'm about to start (will not be able to take the amount of vacation time I had hoped for) we are having to cancel. We literally sent out our wedding announcements/save-the-dates a week ago! Horrible timing.
We have the opportunity to go home for 2 1/2 weeks at the end of next month and my parents insist we do a little something to celebrate with everyone, which is fine. It will be a backyard lobster bake/BBQ thing for probably 50-60 people. Would sending e-mails out to the original reception guests to let them know the party is cancelled in October be appropriate? I figured by the time we snail-mailed everyone an explanation and then sent another invite to the party (date set for June 25th now) it would be WAY to close to the new party date. I was going to send a cancellation e-mail saying call me if you have any questions and let them know we are planning something else for when we are home. Then I was just going to do e-vites within the week since it's a very informal and near last minute event, luckily there's only a handful of guests traveling from out of town..and we more than understand if they wouldn't be able to join us but don't want to exclude them because of the timing. Does that sound ok or should I be making phone calls and sending out paper invites to this? TIA.
