How do you put in the evening invitations that although they are evening invites that you would like it if they could come to the church and actually see the wedding without giving the impression that they are invited to the sit down meal?
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I might do that then. I'm hoping that because the reception is in a different place to the church it's not like people will hang around too long and invite themselves to the meal
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Yep I agree with Whittle - just make sure your invites clearly state it's the EVENING reception otherwise people may get a little confused

There was a recent bride who put the above as suggested by Paula and it seemed to cause loads of problems as people just took it that they were invited to the whole thing! Muppets!

One suggestion was to say you are invited to an evening reception at.....
and then on the bottom add you are welcome to come and join us at the wedding ceremony at .....