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mzamanda1 · June 2012

I have no idea where to begin or what to write on our invites. What kind of info do you place on the main "page" of the invite and what should we place inside the pocket? (we ordered pocketfold invites and are making the rest ourselves) Here is our scenario:

both parents chipped in a little bit of money, but my fiance and I are paying for most of it. We have a late ceremony at a garden and then plan to have a reception about 20 mins away. What do I need to include in my invites??

thank you for your help!!!

Summer2011Bride · June 2012

On the actual invitation you list ceremony details. If everyone chipped in, I might say,

"Together with their families, Your name and FI's name invite you to....so forth and so on"

Tell when the ceremony is (date and time) and where it is

We did pocketfold invitations as well. our inserts were:

Merriment (basically reception info)
Response (RSVP card)
Accommodations (hotel block info plus wedding website URL)
Directions (directions to ceremony and directions from ceremony to reception, though with GPS nowadays, you could probably get rid of the directions card if you wanted)

QueerFemme · June 2012

You might want to order some samples from vistaprint or weddingpaperdivas.com. that will help you get an idea of what to do.

LeiselEB · June 2012

Check out www.envelopments.com for inspiration. They're a company I used to order products from for work, and have tons and tons of pictures of inviations. They do a lot of pocketfolds so you get an idea of what inserts to have.

Basic invitation wording needs the following things: Hosts, Bride and Groom names, Date, Time, Venue, City, State. Here's the wording I'd suggest for you (if you don't want Together with their families..) This is for non church weddings - if you're married in a house of worship just use "the honour of your presence is requested" rather than "the pleasure of your company is requested".

The pleasure of your company

is requested at the marriage of

Bride Full Name

and

Groom Full Name

Saturday, the sixteenth of June

two thousand twelve

at half after four o'clock

Venue Name

address (if not well known venue)

City, State

For the reception card: you need the time and place. There are a lot of ways to word this. Try to avoid saying what kind of reception you're having (don't say dinner reception, cocktail receptions, etc.) Some people will include a graphic or "header" that says something like "The Celebration Continues..." or "Dinner & Dancing", or something like that. Just try to make it part of the design rather than part of the text. Ours read like this:

Reception

Please join us for a reception

beginning at six o'clock

Venue Name

Address (if not well known venue)

City, State

RSVP cards have lots of options. The way we worded ours worked SO well, I was surprised at how few calls we had to make. This is what we did:

Response

Kindly reply by the twenty-sixth of May

M__________

___number attending

___declines

using "number" rather than a check mark for attending is especially helpful when you're inviting parents but not kids - they have to put a number down, so you know who they plan on bringing, and if they RSVP with too many people, you know to make a phone call and explain. If you have menu selections, include them at the bottom like this, so you know who wants what:

Please initial your preferred entree:

__beef __chicken __vegetarian

Accommodations and Directions cards are optional, but the accommodations one is especially helpful if you are blocking hotel rooms:

Accommodations

A block of rooms has been reserved at the following location

Hotel Name

Address

City, State

phone number (direct to hotel, not the 800 number)

Please reference the Bride-Groom wedding when making your reservation

This card is a good place to list your wedding website if you have one. "For more information, please visit

Directions cards should have directions to the ceremony from the hotel you've blocked, or from major highways in that town; from the ceremony to reception, and from major highway or hotel to reception. There are other ways to do this, but these seem to work best for people. List full addresses on this card even if you list only Venue Names and City, State on other cards.

Hope that helps! I tried to just lay out everything here but of course there are plenty of other ways to do things

scrappyrn · June 2012

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_invites-paper_completely-clueless?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20BoardsForum:cd062f89-8272-496a-b0ab-225e1f87acecDiscussion:4841cc06-b9a6-4919-9510-035758f0c74ePost:0da2351f-2563-4dad-b6f0-e48f7099a753">Re: completely clueless</a>:
[QUOTE]On the actual invitation you list ceremony details. If everyone chipped in, I might say, "Together with their families, Your name and FI's name invite you to....so forth and so on" Tell when the ceremony is (date and time) and where it is We did pocketfold invitations as well. our inserts were: Merriment (basically reception info) Response (RSVP card) Accommodations (hotel block info plus wedding website URL) Directions (directions to ceremony and directions from ceremony to reception, though with GPS nowadays, you could probably get rid of the directions card if you wanted)
Posted by Summer2011Bride[/QUOTE]

I would definately include direction cards because some of the older folk do not use GPS's or mapquest. Also someitmes thay can give weird directions.

mzamanda1 · June 2012

Thank you so much everyone!!

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