Reception card?

Re: Reception card?

• ElisabethJoanne member

  

  February 2012

  Once upon a time, etiquette let us invite people only to the ceremony, so reception cards were separate. I guess that rule's flipped, and maybe it's now OK to invite people only to the reception.
  
  Once upon a time, and in the etiquette books at the stationer's we last visited, it was OK to have the reception info below the ceremony info on the same piece of dried wood pulp (card, paper, sheet, whatever you want to call it).
  
  Pros: usually cheaper, makes it clear just coming to the reception is not OK (the suggestion outside theknot it's OK for guests to just attend the reception baffles me), makes it clear you're not doing any questionable etiquette by not having 1 guest list for both
  Cons: might require a bigger piece of wood pulp, actually raising costs; puts all the info in one proverbial basket for guests to misplace, can limit the amount of reception info you include
  
  [Aside: At that stationer's, she started with a whole "Usually, there's a separate reception card..." schpeal. I cut her off. "No, the etiquette books we're using say it's preferred to have one card." Then I pulled her copy of my book out. In retrospect, I'm sure she was trying to increase the amount of our order. We won't be back.]

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• LeiselEB member

  

  February 2012

  As a stationer, I can tell you that we say it's fine to put reception info on the invite if it's at the same location, or the details (time, address, venue name) can be listed succinctly and look good on the invite. 

  
  

  If it's at a separate location and doesn't start immediately after the ceremony, I would do a reception card.

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• kks4471 member

  

  February 2012

  If your ceremony and reception is at the same venue, it's perfectly fine to put "Reception to Follow" at the bottom of the invitation.  If your reception is at a different location, it's best to include a seperate card, but you could print the second location at the bottom of your invitation.  You just might not have enough room to do that though, depending on your invitation design.

  

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• skpurnell

  

  February 2012

  We included a second card so that people didn't get confused when there were two different addresses on the invite... I doubt that would happen, but it seemed like it would be clearer and it didn't add THAT much to the cost.

  

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