Day invite help...

Ceremony to start at 1pm?

Or maybe please arrive and to be seated ready for our ceremony to start promptly at 1pm

Ours is at 2, guests will be told to arrive at 1 for a pre ceremony drink in the bar... alcohol will always get people there on time!

Ours is also 1pm but we asked guests to arrive for 12.30. That will allow for anyone running late and ensure everyone is seated and has hello to everyone they are desperate to speak to before the ceremony!

We put our ceremony time and a line underneath asking guests to be seated earlier, though I am sure everyone knows not to arrive on the dot of the ceremony time

I'm a one o'clocker too!

In the invites I put request the pleasure of the company of..........to celebrate our wedding at............On the 8th September 2012 at 1pm

(Please arrive to be seated by 12:30pm)

My opinion is that you shouldn't insult people's intelligence by telling them anything other than the ceremony time, unless you're arranging pre-ceremony drinks like Sparklebright. I'm a grown woman, I know that you should arrive in plenty of time. I'd be insulted if the B&G thought that I wouldn't have considered that. I've been to almost 30 weddings in the last 5 years and not one of them has put any additional time other than the ceremony time.

Seriously, you'd be "insulted"?!! I can't say it would bother me I'm the slightest if I received an invite asking me to arrive early, certainly not insulted. haven't mentioned the ceremony time in ours so whatever happens, we should have everyone seated on time. And I don't think any of our guests are sensitive enough to be insulted so fingers crossed it won't cause too much of-a stir!

I definitely needed to add that on mine! I have an auntie who walked in after my other auntie at her wedding! I would 'die' if anyone walked in AFTER me and even with the obvious instruction to be there earlier I'm still worried she'll be late! I'm having 'security' on the door so that if she's there after me she can't come in lol

Wow" if any of my guests were offended by me putting a time to arrive on the invites I would question whether I want them there in the first place. You may have been to 30 weddings in the past 5 years but that doesn't mean all my guests have.

Thanks for the suggestions everyone has helped with my invites greatly!!

WSS ?

I agree with knees.......i get married at 4 and will put 4 on invites.........i'd like to think that people would have the common sense to be there early enough.

Who cares! It's a minor detail anyway, I doubt anyone would even notice either way and they certainly wouldn't analyse over whether they should be insulted or not. I think us brides just over think everything...

I'm definitely asking our guests to arrive early as we're getting married in registry office & they run a pretty tight schedule there. Plus I want everyone to be in & seated before I arrive. The main problem will be me getting there on time as I'm always late!!! I don't think people will be offended.

Knowing Knees as I do, I don't think she meant she'd be insulted by being asked to be seated earlier, we've had so many threads like this even over the last 9months I've been around and the general concensus is that it's rude to give people the wrong ceremony time - ie if your ceremony is 1, to put 12 or 12.30 on the invites. It is however fine to say 1pm, please be seated by xyz.

I thought they couldn't serve alcohol for an hour before?