Wedding invite ideas

I'd generally say it how you just did. There is the option of poems you can fiddle with the what you'd want - or if you're having an information page, that one line would be nice enough in there, with maybe suggestions of how you want it, eg. cash? vouchers? on a specific companies website?

Ours is for Kaia's naming ceremony as well. We put:

The most important thing to us is you being there for our special day.

Instead of asking for gifts, we will have a wishing well on the day of the ceremony with wishing cards for you to make a wish for our marriage and for Kaia's future.

For those of you who would like to donate to our honeymoon fund or towards a savings account for Kaia you can place cheques or money in the wishing envelopes.

But most of your guests won't have enquired about a wedding list before they get an invitation!

Morning,

I really loved the idea of a poem until I read a lot of peoples negative thoughts on it. I know these things are supposed to be what you want (it's your day afterall) but my thinking was if the majority of people on here don't like them then a lot of my guests will think the same (I personally like them though).

With that in mind we have decided to write this in our invites:

"You being there to share our special day is the best gift we could receive. However, some people have expressed a wish to buy us a present to mark the occasion. We do not expect anything, but if anyone wishes to give us a gift, then a monetary donation to our honeymoon would be gratefully received".

Hope it's not too cheeky - such an awkward subject! I know some people don't mention it at all but we wanted to!

We went for:

"If it is your intention to buy a gift for A + B there is a gift list available at Kuoni"

I think sometimes your better just getting to the point than wording it in such a way people know you feel awkward asking...

x

Some friends of ours had a nice idea; they asked for specific contributions toward 'things' on their honeymoon- I guess this is similar to the 'Honeyfund' idea that some travel companies have? The list ranged in price, from things like "Two massive ice creams in Rome- £10" to "A bottle of champagne for the flight- £20" to "Entry to the First Class lounge at the airport- £70", etc. You can be as imaginative as you like! They then sent photos to people with their Thank You cards of them eating the ice creams, drinking the champers, eating the free sarnies in the airport...it was lovely and personal! Felt like you'd really made a difference to their experience.

...Also to add that, in this day and age, a lot of people expect to give money rather than presents at weddings.- particularly if the couple have been together a while and have a house, etc. together already. It's really common and I don't think people get offended at all. In fact, it's often easier than having to think of an idea for a present! I prefer it, to be honest.

I think the main reason that some people's noses get put out of joint is that money is a measurable thing; it's quantifiable....whereas you could get someone a £7.99 toaster off Argos, or something in the sale and dress it up as something more expensive. People are afraid of looking 'tight' maybe, but in my eyes, a tenner in a card is better than a £20 toaster or £50 picture frame I don't need or want....a tenner will buy a round of honeymoon bevvies...result! ?

Hi

Wedding stationery is another very important part in Wedding events.

Wedding Invites or cards speaks for the status and standard of the host.

So, it should be such which left the person guessing with if invites is looking like this , how well organized the event will be.

Thanks

I'm wondering how to go about this too! I did find a poem on ebay that wasn't too bad. Like someone else said, people tend to give money rather than gifts these days. I would prefer money though & want my guests to know that LOL!

It's never offended me getting one of those poems in a wedding invite either. It's no different to saying 'Our wedding list is at...' ?

I love your ending! Would you mind if I stole it? ?