Hi can you post a question for me please? We are having a small wedding, only close family and friends during the day. But our venue is in the grounds of where we both work. We want to ask some of our colleagues if they want to come down to watch the ceremony, our venue have said they can watch from the balcony. We plan on inviting them to the evening reception also. How do we invite them / phrase the invite. We don't want them getting muddled and wondering if they are invited to the wedding breakfast or not. Thanks in advance.
Send an evening invitation and add a card or something saying you would like it if they would join you for the ceremony
Make it clear they are only asked to see you get married its just close family n friends to the wedding breakfast but they are asked to the evening buffet x
I sent out evening invitations and said please feel free to watch us say 'I do' at ....
Sent an evening invitation and at the end add on 'you are more than welcome to watch us say I do at...'
I would just be honest and tell them face to face! Explain that you're very limited on numbers but would love for them to be there to see you say 'I do'. If it was me I'd be very touched that someone wanted me to be there for such an important moment of their life. And that way you know there's no confusion.
we added to our evening invite information cards that we would love people to join us at the church for the ceremony before helping celebrate in the evening. it worked fine with no confusion
Ours said "You are invited to the Marriage of X and Y, and their Evening Celebration" with details and start times for just those two bits inside x
I would send then evening invites but just add a separate note in the invite that they would be very welcome to watch the service should they wish.
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