invitation wording

[sarahomalley]

Problem. The chapel we are getting married in is relatively small. the biggest part (main event) will be the reception/dinner. The main invite I want to send out will be for the reception, not the ceremony. Then I will have inserts for the other stuff. How should I word the invite if it's just for the dinner?

[usahgrad]

With joyous hearts
Mrs. John Doe
and
Mr. and Mrs. John Smith
request the honor of your presence
at the celebration of the marriage of their children
Miss Jane Erica Doe
and
Mr. Joe Robert Smith
on Saturday, the thirteenth of May
Two thousand and six
at five o’clock
Some Reception Hall
Somewheresville, Somestate

I just took this right from the wording I got out of a book (sorry, I only saved the part that had both of the parents in it) and then switched so it would be more for the reception than the ceremony. Hope this helps!

[CindySue]

the honor of your presence is requested
at a reception celebrating the marriage of
you and him.
when
where
etc.

[LizabethDavis]

USA has got it. Just the same except use the reception place and time. That seems to be the easiest way.

[sarahomalley]

Ok so I've got the wording figured out for the main invite. Now...I'm sending a separate card for those invited to the ceremony and I was wondering what I should say on those...it's just going to be a small card. And for those only receiving a dance card what should those say? Iknow I probably sound like the biggest idiot, but I just have no idea!!!!

[usahgrad]

No you don't sound like an idiot. The idiot is the one who wouldn't do this because she couldn't figure out the wording and didn't want to have to worry about it. Needless to say, everyone's who's invited to our ceremony is invited to our reception and vica versa...I just didn't want to think about how to word the separate invitations.

My aunt thought I should put the time of the reception on the invitations so that people who wouldn't be at the ceremony could be at the reception. (This is the aunt I'm having problems with by the way) I told her if they didn't want to be at the ceremony bad enough to be able to make it, then I wasn't paying for the food to have them at the reception. She didn't like that too much...I think that's another one to add to my bridezilla moment.:bbmrgreen:

Anyways....maybe something along the lines of:

"Please join us as we make our vows" for the ceremony and then "Please join us as we celebrate our marriage" for the reception.

I'm not much help. But good luck!