Per Person Wedding Invitations

Mook&Clo4202013

My fiancée and I want to only invite people that we know to our wedding, no one extra since we are on a budget. We decided to do individual invitations per person we know, 230 people total.

How would we possibly word these invitations letting the person we hand the invitation to know that they are invited without a guest?
PS, we will invite their guest based on if we know them, we are choosing not to invite people we don’t know because of our budget.Thx.

Mook&Clo4202013

I expect that but I'm talking more on the lines for single people not people in relationships or married. Thank you

MyNameIsNot

If the person is single, you address the invitation to the single person only.  You don't put "& guest" on the envelope.  

If they try to RSVP with an extra guest, you call and explain that they weren't invited to bring along a friend.  In that conversation, if it comes up that they are in a relationship with someone, you make the exception.  If it was just a date, you don't.  

It doesn't matter if you know the bf/gf or not.  What matters is if the couple considers themselves a couple.  

HobokensFury

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[QUOTE]My fiancée and I want to only invite people that we know to our wedding, no one extra since we are on a budget. We decided to do individual invitations per person we know, 230 people total.<strong> How would we possibly word these invitations letting the person we hand the invitation to know that they are invited without a guest?</strong> PS, we will invite their guest based on if we know them, we are choosing not to invite people we don’t know because of our budget. Thx.
Posted by Mook&Clo4202013[/QUOTE]

I hope you're not really planning on hand delivering invites.  Just don't put and guest on the envelope.  If the rsvp with one call and politely explain that you can't accommodate guests.

Mook&Clo4202013

Nooooo, not hand delivering, was typing fast. I meant the one who gets the invite how would we address it. I like the idea of just putting the one persons name on the invite and not guest so they will know its for one person. Thx.

lyndausvi

So if there is a married couple do both people get their own inviation?

Mook&Clo4202013

Both people get an invitation. I am speaking of single people who are not in a relationship. @CMGr, No one is being rude here. We don't want random people we don't know or people who will cause problems such as friends of friends who are invited, someone even threatened to bring my fiancee's ex girlfriend as their date, we don't want that.

aragx6

If they're married or living together they should get 1 invitation per couple.

mtbentley

Just write out each person's name on the inner envelope who is invited. I have also seen some people who put "__ seats have been reserved in your honor" and fill in the # of people the invite was intended for

Sending a separate invitation for each person (two invites for one couple) is not going to help your budget, you will be paying for almost double the number of invitations, double the postage, double the time to assemble them.