invite question

Re: invite question

• OliveOilsMom member

  

  September 2013

  Nodramamama39 said:

  A friend is having a wedding at a very ritzy country club. This country club has a very strict no exceptions dress code. My friend wants to get the word out about the dress code for the wedding (she is pretty sure some people will show up in jeans) but she has suggested putting it on her invite.  I told her that it was inappropriate to put it on the invite and instead she should put it on her website.  I know it's against etiquette to tell people how to dress but she is afraid people will be turned away at the door if they are under dressed.

  
  

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  If the venue requires a dress code, it is perfectly acceptable to have an insert in the invitation stating the dress code.  It should say Ritzy Country Club requires suits for gentleman and cocktail attire for ladies, or something to that effect.
  

  

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• ScrabbleAndLlamas member

  

  September 2013

  Venue restrictions are the only kind you you're supposed to put anywhere, because you're helping the guest, not just making prettier pictures.  She can put them on the invite, as long as she only puts the ones that will get them turned away at the door.  Another method is to let your more gossippy guests know about the venue dress code.  They'll help you get the word out for sure.

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• phira member

  

  September 2013

  This is one of those cases where putting information about dress on the invitation is actually okay. Here's how it works:

  
  

  No dress code at venue: people won't get kicked out for not dressing appropriately

  
  

  Dress code at venue: people WOULD get kicked out for not dressing appropriately

  

  now with ~* INCREASED SASSINESS *~
  
  

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• Nodramamama39 member

  

  September 2013

  awesome. thanks for the insight. like I said it is definitely the venue making the call on the dress code, not the bride trying to dictate guests who don't know how to dress-up...I will let her know that I was wrong and she is good to go

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• SKPM member

  

  September 2013

  I would include the venue's restrictions on a physical insert enclosed in the invitation (not on the actual invitation card itself). Not everyone will look at a wedding website and the dress code is pretty imperative information if people will not be admitted in to the wedding.
  

  
  

  
  

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• AprilH81 member

  

  September 2013

  Does the country club have a website that states the dress code?  The bride could print the information on an insert (not on the invite itself) along with a link to the country club website just so people know the information is coming from the venue not the couple.

  

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