Invites - Guest Information What to include

We left most of it on the website, but it depends on your guests and whether you think they will read it. Ours had address, date time, rsvp date, menu choices and then a link to the website.

The website then had taxi, accommodation, timings of the day, gift information etc on it - basically stuff that wasn't as important. By that I mean, knowing the venue, people could find taxi or accommodation themselves, the timings are kind of irrelevant once you're there, and gifts aren't a necessity. We didn't mention dress code but I think that's also something that'd be fine on the website as unless you have something specific, most people know how to dress for a wedding!

Hope that helps

A lot will depend on the style of invitation,

We did an A-Z of free-standing information sheet, A5 in size, that covered lots (26!) of info. We also did a website, which had lots of info too but some people still wont bother checking that out! This is where we put the bit about gifts (or money, in our case!). This also covered transport and accommodation. You can check it out at www.claireandrichards.website if you want ideas.

We also did a separate RSVP postcard which had the "Dietary Requirements" bit on there - there were no menu options, they got what they were given! This was just one of a number of options to reply, it also included an email address and also the website link for RSVP.

Hope that helps!

Mr_P

We put a lot of it on the website. As they were RSVPing through there, and picking the meal choices, I didn't see the point of wasting invitation space listing out the food options. It means we kept it down to one piece of invitation card (front and back). So we just had: date, time, venue, website, RSVP deadline, information about gifts. Then I put a line that just said "Please see the above website for more information on travel, meal choices and nearby accommodation".

All of my guests got a letter in addition as well as extra emails with Q&A's on to save any back and forth being asked questions.

My invites were a colllection of 6 luggage tags, A6 size (half the size of A5) & included a front cover, invite, full address, local accommodation options, carriage time & local taxi options, gift list, no kids & our address and emails and mobile numbers for rsvp.

No no need to run a wedding website if everything needed is in the invite.

if you do want to do a website though - just send a brief invite that says "head to our wedding website for full info" or similar!!!!

I'm also getting to the point where we need to pick our invitations & look at getting them printed. The only slight problem is that we haven't decided 100% on what time we're getting married- I guess I'd better contact our church administrator and discuss it soon!

But back to your post- we are thinking of putting the majority of information on our wedding website as people have to visit it to rsvp anyway. But we recently received an invitation for a friend's wedding where they had a simple small card (one sided) with the date & time and address. A second small rsvp card, and then an a4 piece of paper which they had given out lots of information about no cash accepted at the bar, taxi & nearby hotel details. It was a nice font & printed on yellow paper and I thought it looked quite good and was helpful. Having said that they don't have a wedding website so I guess it's just the paper version of what we are planning to having. One thing my mum did remind me to consider is that not everyone will want to look for ages at a website and people would find it quite helpful to have something on paper which they can put in their handbag and take with them for taxi numbers etc. Just an idea!

good luck whatever you decide

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