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findthecolour
Beginner June 2012

Evening Invitations: How to word it so guests know they can come to ceremony too?

findthecolour, 26 February, 2012 at 14:48 Posted on Planning 1 3

Hi all,

We are trying to get the wording of our evening wedding invitations right. Although we don't have enough sit-down space at the reception venue for everyone (we're already pushing 110+), we still want people to be part of our day.

Many of these people live close to where we are getting married, so we want to make sure they know they are more than welcome to come and see us get married earlier in the day, before coming to celebrations in the evening around 7pm.

How can we word this making both these points clear?

We don't want people showing up at the day reception confused about which parts they are invited to be part of.

So far I have come up with:

"We are getting married at <time> at <ceremony venue>. We would love it if you were able to come to the ceremony to see us get married & we'll see you later for the evening celebrations!"

But not sure if this quite hits the right note?

Help!

3 replies

Latest activity by jojo2, 26 February, 2012 at 20:28
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    Beginner February 2014
    kyla25 ·
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    We are getting married at ..... bla time, this is our most special part of our day and we would love it if you were to join us before you come to celebrate with us in the evening!

    Not quite sure, all i could think of xxxx

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  • jen_84
    Beginner August 2012
    jen_84 ·
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    We've just received an evening invite with this in:

    "Dear X and X, On (date) X and X are getting married and would love you to join them for their evening reception at (venue) at (time). All evening guests are very welcome to join us for the wedding ceremony at (venue) for (time)."

    Seemed polite and we know exactly what we are able to attend and aren't.

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  • DaffyB
    Beginner June 2012
    DaffyB ·
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    In our actual invitation we put:

    Miss X and Mr Y

    request the pleasure of the company of

    Fred

    for the evening reception to celebrate their wedding

    at venue

    at 7.30pm

    Then we had a sheet of additional information. On that we put:

    We would love it if you could also attend the ceremony. This will be taking place at the church at 1pm

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  • jojo2
    Beginner June 2012
    jojo2 ·
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    I have been invited to a wedding before where we were evening only guests with the choice of attending the actual ceremony.

    It went along the lines of

    We would like to invite you to our Evening reception at 7pm.

    Guests are welcome to attend the church ceremony at 12pm and return later to celebrate with us at the evening reception.

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