Wedding Invitation Wording - Help Needed Please!

My friends went to an informal and relaxed wedding this weekend and their only criticism was the lack of table plan, as it just made finding somewhere to sit a bit more difficult. I'm sure that's not the case for everyone, but they're the only people I know with experience of a wedding without a table plan

Exactly what Kirst said.

If you make it clear please join us at 5pm and or food to be served at 5.30pm (or whenever)

Where food is concerned people wont be late!

We recently went to a 50th and it was more formal than the invited led us to believe.

There was sit down meal and seating plan- luckily we got there on time otherwise we would have missed food and would have felt majorly rude! (the invite had no mention of dinner at all so we just assumed would be canapes/buffet type thing!)

Thank you both for your feedback! Will definatly use a table plan now and love your suggested wording thank you

I agree with what the other ladies have said re the wording. We had a similar situation with our "evening" starting early and everyone did turn up on time! We said this on the info sheets which went in the invites:

We are having a small intimate ceremony. We would love for you to join us at 5:30pm to share the speeches, cake cutting and first dance.

Food, drink and entertainment will be provided!

Hi,

We're having something similar, getting married at 2pm but have only a small room for the ceremony so want everyone to join us straight after - we're also not having a table plan!

My plan is to include a kind of running order within the invitations - eg 3pm drinks reception 4pm photographs, 5pm outdoor games 6pm speeches, 7pm BBQ 8pm dancing - these arent the actual times but something like that is a bit fun and quirky - we're doing the invitations in a booklet style, printing the information on postcards and tying them together with a yellow ribbon (our colour is yellow).

xx