WW - Invitation Verbiage

Hello everyone!

Welcome to today's Wedding Wednesday! We decided to write about something that was a challenge for us, to make your life a bit easier...hopefully.  We had the darndest time coming up with how to word, format, etc. our invitations and response cards.

So, we typed it out for you (along with a visual).

Kristin's: 

Invitation:

**Sorry it's kinda hard to see...it's inside my shadow box. 

Kristin Michele & Mitchell Lee

TOGETHER WITH THEIR PARENTS

MR. & MRS.  _______________

AND

MR. & MRS.  _______________

REQUEST THE PLEASURE OF YOUR COMPANY

AT THEIR MARRIAGE

FRIDAY, THE TWENTY-SIXTH OF APRIL

TWO THOUSAND AND THIRTEEN

HALF PAST SIX O’CLOCK IN THE EVENING

LAFAYETTE GRANDE

ONE LAFAYETTE

PONTIAC, MICHIGAN

COCKTAIL HOUR IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING

DINNER TO BE SERVED AT EIGHT O’CLOCK IN THE EVENING

Response Card:

The favor of your response is requested

before the eighth of April

Name(s) ________________________________________________________

____ACCEPTS WITH PLEASURE

DECLINES WITH REGRET____

We respectfully request that this is an adult only event

Elyse's:

Invitation: (WARNING: We wanted to keep both our invites & response cards super laid back and casual, which is not always the idea of choice for people for their weddings. Ours was even more casual than this, but then in the last second we made some changes)

______________ & ___________ invite you to join

___________________ & ______________

at their soiree of Summer Love

Outdoor Ceremony  with Food, Music, and Dancing to follow

July 14 2012 5:00pm  (Address is blacked out)

visit elyseandbrandon.com for details

**IMPORTANT PART OF OUR INVITE: Letting people know it was an outdoor ceremony/reception!  People need to know how to dress!

Response Card:

RSVP

_______________ is/are going to dance the night away

_________________ has/have to do something less cool

Kindly Reply by 6/25/12

**IMPORTANT: Make sure to put little numbers on the back of your responses that correspond with the numbers on your guest list. You'd be surprised at how many people aren't sure how to fill these out!

Hope this helps! It's not the same for everyone, some people like more formal, some do not. It's all about what works best for you and your significant other! XO, K & E