Wedding Forum - Evening Invitations......

So some of you may have seen, we have finally decided on our colours/coordination etc for the invitations as having pocketfold design... just need to work on the insert pattern/design and wording then obviously will get a photo up for your lovely ladies approval!!
However, I can probably guess the responses before I even ask the question and that will be 'personal preference' but would love to know what Brides have done and what B2B's are planning on doing regarding evening invitations....

Are you having the same invite as the day guests with different wording or are you having a completely different style invite for the evening guests? I assumed I'd just do postcard style for the evening however they are still going to need directions/rsvp etc for numbers/buffet food so not quite sure what to do?
Postcard with paperclipped directions/rsvp or same as day guests just with different wording?

Any advice, hints, tips, etc always welcome!! xx

We did basically the same invite for the day and evening guests, with one invitation saying Wedding Invitation and the other Evening Invitation. We included the same directions and information for both guests bar timings etc in the invite itself, however in the wording for the evening we put, please join us for our evening reception to celebrate the marriage of... On our wedding website we do have separate sections for evening and days guests, detailing food etc

We had the exact same invites for full day, reception and evening only guests but deleted the paragraphs on ceremony venue, changed the start times and added the word reception into 'you are invited to the wedding of...'

We're having different invites for evening guests so there's no confusion. The day invites will be gatefolds, whereas the evening invites are simply folded cards. They'll have similar designs on the front but the day invites are "fancier" lol xxx

We are having our day invites made, bespoke & in chequebook style
To save money, we have bought evening invites from the card shop begining with C
£5 for 10 & they are lovely
Our thinking was the day guests don't see the evening invite & vice versa so therefore we felt it was an unneccesary added expense.
It also makes it very clear which part they are invited to

We are having just the postcard style for the evening invite, but we are lucky as nearly all guests live local so we don't really need directions xx

Postcard for the night and for those who need directions put them on a seperate post card but most people would not need the directions just the sddress. x x x

I have two different invites for day and night guests, day guests get something like this:

But with Navy Blue ribbon and silver typed inserts...

and the night time will be like these:


But with a pale ivory shimmery backing card, navy blue and ivory ribbon and ivory card with navy blue text

We are having a pocketfold invite for both but the words for the day time guest will be Mr and Mrs Smith invite ....... and the evening guest will have the parents of Peter and Lorraine invite you......

But apart from that everything else is the same as we only have one venue.

Thanks lula

If its a deal breaker, then consider postage... If you're sending out dozens of invites by post that are bulky or large, then that'll bump your postage up. I'm making my own & expect to pay more for postage due to the design using a lot more card than is necessary, but I've budgeted for it.
It might be worth having fancy ones for the wedding, as close relatives are more likely to keep them as momentoes of the day, whereas if you're only inviting them to the evening, then chances are they're not as close to you, and are less likely to keep them.

Oooh Amy i hadnt thought of it like that, thank you!

Thanks girlies, im still umming & ahhing at moment!! x