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gizmobear
Beginner September 2013

Wedding invitation dilemma

gizmobear, 30 April, 2013 at 19:21 Posted on Planning 0

Hi. my wedding is in 5 months. we plan to send our invites at the end of May. We are still in the process of choosing what invitations we want, design, which company we want to do them, or do we make own etc etc etc. Lots of ideas flying around at the moment, although we do have a design in mind.

Anyway....when it comes to making/ordering your invites, do people tend to order day and evening invitations at the same time? and send at the same time, or send out day invites, then order evening ones and send them our later??

We are worried that some of our day guests won't be able to come, so were considering then inviting some of the potential evening guests to the day time to boost numbers. (I know that sounds awful, but our venue has a minimum number for the room we want)but also some guests we wanted to attend the day time are now going to be evening guests as we were tight on numbers originally. Hope this all makes sense.

When we have been looking online for wedding invites it isnt always clear if the company does evening invites to match. Do people usually just order the same design/size and just change the wording on the invite to reflect that it is an evening invitation?I havent really seen any specific evening invitations.

what do people usually do in regards to this?

We are also unsure whether to have cards that open (ie traditional card style) or a postcard style ie one piece of card printed on each side.

My Fiance really isnt fussed what we have, and I have been told I worry too much what the invite will look like, but I dont want to offend anyone or ignore general wedding invite etiquette. HELP.

We dont need to have any inserts as we are posting all the accommodation info, directions etc to our wedding website that we are designing.

advice?

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    Beginner December 2013
    Amaranth ·
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    My etiquette book collection finally comes in useful- hurrah!

    Day invitations are sent before evening ones; usually by a month or so. It allows you to get an idea of numbers and to make amendments as appropriate, and also gives day guests more time that they may need to make travel arrangements/book time off work, etc. These are typically not required of evening guests, and so evening invitations can be sent around six weeks in advance.

    Day guest should receive their invitations at least 8 weeks before the wedding, and should have an RSVP date several weeks in advance of the evening guest RSVP deadline.

    We're having our invitations made for us (graphic designer friend is doing it as a wedding gift) and we're having coordinating but not matching invites done for day and evening guests. In our case, we're only having the most important people to us during the day and won't be substituting numbers regardless, so we've got that pretty easy. When we've looked around online, lots of the designs we liked had separate evening invites in the same vein.

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