4 invitations to one household?

I mailed 4 invitations to one house. My aunt and two adult cousin’s lived with my grandmother when we sent invites.

I had the same problem arise and sent 4 invites to the same household anyway. My cousins seemed happy to have their own invite and it helped make it super clear who was invited.

Personally I ignored that rule and just did it for the household. I discussed it with some of my older cousins that are always looking for etiquette screw ups and they all said that was a stupid rule. I would've been sending them all like 6 invites and they thought that was ridiculous.

I'm counting up invites right now and I would need 95. I have to buy in increments of 25. Maybe I'll save them for last and plan to send their own, but consolidate if necessary. 125 invitations would be way to many!

I would just send all 4, particularly since one of the children will be coming with a SO. You do not want any confusion there.

@An, fair point. that makes sense!

I have a similar situation and I plan to mail 4 invitations to the same household.

Ooooof! I haven't even thought about this yet! Thanks for the reminder

@ACD it definitely takes some time to figure out how many you need!

We’re doing multiples to houses as well. My cousins still live with their parents and are in their early 20s. They’re getting plus ones as well. FH has five aunts that all live together and their each getting their own invite as well

I have a few households where I'll be meeting multiple invitations. Seems weird but no matter how you do it, it's a little awkward.

We fudged the ettiquette on this for this reason- we sent individual invites to anyone who was either living on their own or had already graduated college. (FH has a cousin thats engaged and getting married in June, so she gave up her apartment rather than pay 2 leases and her fiance lives with roommates.) This created a clear divide and worked for our families. Otherwise there were houses where we would have sent 5 invites!

Yea I’m kind of smudging the lines of etiquette on this one too. I only have one instance and it’s 2 adult boys, 20 and 18, no SOs, and I’m addressing it to the family.

I would do two separate invitations. One addressed to the 25 yo and her boyfriend and the other addressed to the other family members. It’s probably not proper etiquette but it makes the most sense in my mind.

I will just send 1 invitaion per household. It is also a waste of money and paper, ink, deocorations on the invitations and all to send them all an individual invite. I rather have more programs printed than to worry about who will get an invite that lives in the same house.

My mom said it was a must to send different invitations to the household. So that's what I did. Thankfully we ordered enough.

ex;

my aunt and uncle (1 invite)

my cousin and her boyfriend (1 invite)

My aunt's mom (another invite)

they all live in the same house