My problem is that I want people to show up at 1:40 for a 2:00 start time. I'm hiring a professional choir that will begin prelude music at 1:40 and I wrote some of the music they're singing. I'd really like people to be there for that. In addition, I really don't want them arriving at two because that is exactly when the ceremony starts. They will not start late for any reason and I will be walking down the aisle at two o clock and no later. So everyone has to be there and be seated before then. I want to indicate that they need to be there by 1:40 without sounding rude.
Here's what I have. Does this sound ok?
Mr. and Mrs. Brides parents
request the honor of your presence
at the Nuptial Mass at which their daughter
Bride name
and
Groom name
will be united in Holy Matrimony
on the seventeenth of July
two thousand ten
at two o’ clock in the afternoon
The choir will begin the prelude at one forty
name of church
address of church