My fiance and I are being married on a docked sailboat boat with our wedding party and a few guests. The reception is a short walk away and we plan to have the cocktail hour start at the same time. We plan to have a coordinator to greet guests and give them the option to walk down to the lake to see the ceremony from shore, however this is standing room on a rocky shore, so we expect some guests to wander down but not everyone to formally gather. What should we put for wording on our invitations? We were thinking:
"Cocktails and reception at 5:00pm following a private ceremony" (even though the ceremony will be at 5:00 too and as I mentioned, some may wish to walk down to the water to see it).