Additional information how does this sound??

Abby i totally understand your point hence my asking for advice from you lovely ladies first will leave out rsvp and as for coaches i have 120 guests to the day and cant sort that any other way, i was trying to be to the point but not rude so thanks for that x

I have to agree a little...some bits sound like you are trying to justify your reasons (which you don't have to)

For the Additional Information, i would keep it simple e.g due to venue capacity the day invitation is for those stated on the invitation only, we would love to invite the children in the evening where our capacity allowance increases, evening invites to follow.

for The Ceremony section the wording of the arrival time confuses me a bit...i would say please arrive at 3.00pm (if thats what time you mean) the ceremony will begin at 3.15pm then the coach bit sounds fine

For the Coaches section i would be inclined to chop that right down

Due to walking distance and busy carparks we have decided to give guests the option of travelling to the ceremony and back to the reception venue via coaches. We have arranged for coaches to pick up from the following collection points: x, x and x.

We are asking for £3.50 per person to use the coach service, and we will confirm the coach details once we have numbers confirmed.

The Reception section should maybe state where it is with the address (if not on the main invite anyway?) and then i would say: The coaches will go directly from the ceremony to the reception venue, however if you are driving, there is parking at the venue. (i don't think you need to state that there is a welcome drink waiting for them)

for the RSVP Cards i would imagine that the cards themselves are pretty self explanatory but maybe put something like....

These have been included with your invitations, please write your name and whether you can attend and return to us at xxxxxxx (address?)

for the Food Preferences again i would say...

please write the number of people chosing each option next to the food choices.

and finally the end coaches section i would intergrate with the other coach section e.g please tick on the RSVP if you would like to be included in the coach numbers and a contact number so we can give you some further information

Thank you all so very much for taking the time to read all this information, we hope you can make it and look forward to seeing you on our special day

Kind Regards

Chris & Michelle

**hope this all makes sense?? sorry if it seems like i have said to change loads but these are just some suggestions i thought of when reading through!! good luck! and please ignore any spelling mistakes (not the best speller haha!!) x **

I think putting on coaches is a lovely idea!

But becuase it is so dependant on whether guests want them maybe put it like this

"Coaches - If you would prefer not to pay for parking and would like to have all your travel sorted for £3.50, please opt in on the RSVP. We will confim this with you nearer the time"

or something like that. I'm also just doing this, so many people makes it sooo difficult!

A bit too wordy for me.

Suggestions:

Due to restricted guest numbers at _venue_ the daytime invite is for those named on the invitation only, however our evening celebrations are less restricted and evening invites are to follow.

I'm presuming the time of the ceremony will be printed elsewhere on the invite so saying 15 mins early to a 3.15 start seems OTT

Please arrive at _venue_ at 3pm.

Coaches/travel can be shortened to:

An optional coach will be supplied to take you to _venue_ and onward to _evening venue_ . The collection points are X, X & X and there will be a small charge of £3.50 per person. Confirmation of this will be sent in due course once we have final numbers. Monies will be collected on dd/mm/yy

If you would like to take advantage of the coach please tick the relevant box on the enclosed RSVP along with a contact number.

For those guests wishing to drive to _evening venue_ there is ample parking available and directions are included.

For the food:

Please state how many of each option from the enclosed menu guests named on the invite would like.

Then some quick thank you for reading, we look forward to seeing you etc etc on the bottom aaannndd...DONE!

Hi hon,

I agree with pp, I think its quite formal and you don't need to justify yourself and its coming across that way

so lovely of you to put on a coach for everyone... like the other people mentioned.. just saying something like.... please let us know if you would like to take the coach at £3.50 per person to save you parking/fuel costs etc...

no need to put about the children... my friend called me up when she did this and I was just happy to go to her wedding ..and you know what I had a really good drink without the kids - much more relaxing!!!

Are you putting anything about hotel options / directions.... im just asking as Im about to do mine and I have no idea what to write! thanks for giving me a start !

Good advice here, I think.

I agree, what Sassy said is awesome (might be stealing bits of it...)