I'm almost ready to start making our invites, I've got all of my stationery bits and pieces, tons of ink ready for all the printing and different sized address labels so we can make all of the envelopes look nice and professional. We're going to be attempting to finalise our guest list this weekend so I know how many invites I've got to make, the one thing I'm stumped on at the moment though which is delaying me in getting stuck into it is my wording for the different sections of the invites.
We're having pocketfold invites, the main section will be obviously the actual invitation which is coming from us (as opposed to our parents) and we want to actually address each invite to the person(s) we're sending it to rather than just a generic "The pleasure of your company is requested . . . " line so we'll need a dotty section or something where I can then hand write the guests names, we were also thinking we'd like the wording to be something a little away from the norm, not sure what though, nothing too wacky, just something really nice to invite our friends and family to our wedding, something that'll make them think "Awwww" without being too mushy and gushing. We also need to include on there that we're not allowed confetti at our venue and to mention that we're having a buffet (in case people think we've forgotten to include their meal choice options card).
There's going to be 3 layers to the pocketfold cards, RSVP - again we need ideas for a nice way of asking people to respond by a certain date without it sounding too formal, a guest list card - I've seen a poem somewhere about "Your presence rather than your presents", but we do have a Trailfinders giftlist set up towards our Honeymoon if people do feel inclined to be so generous and little cards to include to give the info on that and then a Direction/Accommodation card - I've already designed a little map for this which includes a map of the Isle of Wight (where we're getting married) and a zoom in section on how to actually get to the venue, so I think that's sorted, we just need to list some suggestions for people of where they could stay.
We also need to think up a similar version, but for the evening invites, so again some nice wording for that.
Any advice or ideas anyone has on the different types of wording for invites would be greatly appreciated though.
