Invitation wording help please

[naj]

Hello...I a newbie looking for help! I am getting married 8-8-08, in a small outdoor wedding, and we are only inviting immediate family. This is going to be a surprise because everyone thinks our wedding date is 5-30-09, but job oppertunity will be taking us out of our state, and we want to get married before we leave. Here are my questions:

1) It will be my fiance and I inviting, so any clever ways of starting the invite off?

2) Do we mention anything about immediate family only in the invite?

3) Do we mention anything about moving the date up?

Thanks!!

[sweetvenus]

1. We didn't include any parents or anything on ours, and the way I worded it was:
The pleasure of your company
is requested at the marriage of
My Name
and
His Name
...
It's not super creative or anything, but we're having a formal-ish wedding.

2. I don't see a need to do this. Just make sure when addressing the envelopes that it is clear who exactly is invited.

3. You could do a cute "We couldn't wait, so we moved our date!" or something at the beginning of the invitation if you wanted to, but it's not necessary. I think most people will figure it out when they read the date on the invitation. ;)

[StarCoveter]

I don't think it's necessary to mention the moving the date... I think most people will figure it out. If you sent out a save the date or something, then you might want to mention it, but if it's been a word of mouth kind of thing, then don't worry about it.

We were going to do a small outdoor ceremony ourselves (we ended up deciding on doing it inside, because it'll be 85 degrees and we don't want people getting too hot) and here is what our invitation said (when we redid them, we just took out the "in an outdoor ceremony" part).

Bride
and
Groom

Please join us as we
are united in love and life
in an outdoor ceremony
Saturday, July 19, 2008
twelve o'clock
Location

Reception to immediately follow

[naj]

Here is what I have so far:

We couldn't wait, so we moved up our date!

A friendship that was shared by two
has growen into a love so true

Please share our joy as we
Nic & Nate
join in marriage in a private outdoor ceremony
august 8,2009
at five o'clock
address

Reception to immediately follow

We want to make clear that not EVERYONE is invited, and that since aug is hot it will be outdoors...any other suggestions would be appreciated!

p.s. I used short hand, wont put Nic & Nate :o

[elife_kate]

Sounds good to me! Especially the verses on friendship and true love:)

When I am making an invitations I usually start with the names. Something like:

Nick St.John and Nate Johnson
request the honour of your presence
at their marriage on Friday,
the second of June
at twelve o’clock
Hope Chapel, Church
2420 Pacific Coast Highway
Hermosa Beach, CA

Somthing like that. In your case, I think you'd like to be more private and sound not that official so the verses are very good for this case.

Considering, that NOT everyone invited... As I see, you already have mentioned that the ceremony is private. So, it's logical only family members and close friends are invited.

If you'd like to specify directly who is invited and who is not, then mentioning it on envelope ("To Mr. and Mrs. Smith" or "to Jane Austin") would do it.
Otherwise, you might consider including the names of the invited to your invitation, but that would take much place IMHO.

Hope that helps!
Kate

[naj]

Thank you all! I'm going to keep what I have, I like it... Couldn't have done it w/o the help!!

[Brian's Bride]

I noticed you typed "Growen" instead of "Grown." Just wanted you to be aware, but I'm sure spellcheck would've caught it!