Rehearsal Dinner invites

dunnkat · May 2011

My future in laws have generously told us that they are giving us 1,000 for the rehearsal dinner however we will be planning it and sending out the invites. How should I word the invitations? I don't want it to seem like me and my fiance are hosting it. Would it be weird if I had my in laws names on the invitations and put the return address to them?

Irishcurls · May 2011

We sent out the invites to make it easier on my ILs, but they are still hosting and paying, so the invites say something like "You are invited to an RD honoring us, hosted by the groom's parents, Mr and Mrs FI...." And I think we'll put their return address on it, but I don't think that matters very much either way, just a post office thing.

jessicabessica · May 2011

We are inviting everyone to the RD since everyone is out of town, so we enclosed an insert with our invitation. My FI's parents are hosting it. The insert is worded "Mr. and Mrs. Smith invite you to a celebratory BBQ in honor of Jessica and David's wedding . . . ". If we had sent them as separate cards, we probably would have had my FI's parents as the return address.

Brandiewine11 · May 2011

FI's parents are paying, and their names will be on the invite as "hosting" but RSVP's come back to me since I'm doing most of the detail planning. The return address is a non-issue b/c the invite is a separate card going in with the regular wedding invites thus have my return address anyway. You could just ask your FI's parents what they would be most comfortable with. That's what I did.

mandi921vh · May 2011

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_etiquette_rehearsal-dinner-invites-3?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20BoardsForum:9Discussion:e70f3e5c-99df-47df-8623-c1864c9c6a83Post:dab0111d-6cc1-4203-9e38-8aadeb8200cc">Re: Rehearsal Dinner invites</a>:
[QUOTE]We sent out the invites to make it easier on my ILs, but they are still hosting and paying, so the invites say something like "You are invited to an RD honoring us, hosted by the groom's parents, Mr and Mrs FI...." And I think we'll put their return address on it, but I don't think that matters very much either way, just a post office thing.
Posted by Irishcurls[/QUOTE]

<div>This. </div>

bczican77 · May 2011

My FMIL showed me the RD invites last night that she had ordered. Here is the link to the actual invite. The only words she changed were the names, location and address, of course! :-)

http://pal.einvite.com/product/Wedding/rehearsal-dinner/WSP-AEU-NPALENS/?Cobrand=PAL&Site=PAL&vk=1777211146

TurtlesAllTheWayDown · May 2011

I would ask them. We had some wording about a welcome dinner in honor of us, hosted by Jane and John Doe, etc. However, we asked that people RSVP to my now-husband since my in-laws didn't want to deal with RSVPs "from people they didn't know." It was weird, but it worked out.