Addressing Invitations

lvquizon

Hi girls! Here's my situation. For cost purposes, and also because I feel like it's a waste of paper, I eliminated the inner envelope for my invitations. Now that I think about it though, that's where you're supposed to address who is actually invited to the wedding. How would you guys address your invitations in order to let people know they can bring a guest? I know I shouldn't do this on the outer envelope, so I'm looking for suggestions! TIA and Happy Friday!!

ufsweetiebear

I also won't have an inner envelope so I'm indicating on the response card how many seats we've reserved for them. A few articles say this is inappropriate but it's completely necessary in my case. FI's family would have no problem bringing extra guests.

bride2bhcl

I did the same as PP...we even used response postcards to save on paper and postage.  PIB if you want to take a look.

jet2paris85

I just had an outter envelope. That is where I addressed the invite to whom it was intended.
Such as Mr. and Mrs. John Smith
                Suzy and Bob

If they had kids that were invited I listed their names as well.
On our response cards I had a place that said  how many guest? ___

jen812

I think you're supposed to try really hard to find out who their guest would be & write the '& guest's name on the outer envelope if you know it.  Ms. Jane Doe & Mr. John Smith or
Ms. Jane Doe
Mr. John Smith
123 Center St.
Anytown, FL
I know you're not supposed to write Ms. Jane Doe & guest on the outer envelope, but IMO, I don't think it's that bad if you have to.

JulieNFlo

Sorry if this is a repost but for some reason my first post to this thread does not appear to be there.

Anyways I said that I also had this issue because I sent couture boxed invites so they do not have a inner envelope because they arrive in a box...so as pp post mentioned we added the number of guest to the RSVP card and I would also print the names myself on the RSVP cards this way you avoid guest forgetting to write their names on the line and not understanding their handwriting.  Both of these things mentioned happened to me recently.

HTH!!!

lvquizon

Thanks guys! I'm going to take everyone's advice!

bride2bhcl- I'm also doing the postcards for the same exact reasons!

ufsweetiebear

I never thought of printing their names on the response card -- Good idea Julie!

JulieNFlo

Yes I recieved 3 cards back that said yes we will be there but guess what who will be here?  Cause there were NO names on the line!!!  How made was I?

HMMMMMMMMMMMMM...very...lol

aallenba

If I knew who the other person would be (ie: long term gf/bf or daughter) I would put:

Mr. Bob Smith
Ms. Jane Doe

But if I didn't know and wanted to do an "and guest", I just indicated that we reserved 2 seats for that person but didn't include it on the envelope.

Oh and my recommendation to avoid what Julie is going through is to number your invitation list 1 through whatever and then number the RSVP's to coordinate with it.

For example Bob Smith is listed as #25, and if you get his invite back and it's left blank you will at least know who it came from because 25 is written on the back of itl.

I hope that made sense.

lvquizon

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/local-wedding-boards_florida-west-coast_addressing-invitations?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Local Wedding BoardsForum:62Discussion:b2dc7895-e1c0-461e-be3e-520b9314dd0bPost:1e48bc2e-4590-46b0-8ffc-1b5470df87a8">Re: Addressing Invitations</a>:
[QUOTE]Oh and my recommendation to avoid what Julie is going through is to number your invitation list 1 through whatever and then number the RSVP's to coordinate with it. For example Bob Smith is listed as #25, and if you get his invite back and it's left blank you will at least know who it came from because 25 is written on the back of itl. I hope that made sense.
Posted by aallenba[/QUOTE]

Yes, you made sense, and this is a great idea!