Addressing Invites No Inner Envelope

For ours the reply card has "we have reserved __ seats in your honor" so I will be addressing them to the adult guest(s) and those with children will know (hopefully) the other spots are for the kids...especially since there are meal options and a spot to write how many kids meals they will need

If everyone in the household, including kids, are invited then you should be fine just doing 'The Smith Family'.

You can write "The Smith Family". I did the other way. "Mr. and Mrs. John Smith" and below that the children's names. It comes down to personal preference and what you think looks best on the envelope.

Just to throw it out there (not stealing your thread, I promise ). How would you address an invite if the parents aren't married but have kids together, would you do it "Mr X & Miss Y & family". Or "The X-Y Family"

We did ours "the Smith Family". And then the rsvp card has a spot to check yes or no and how many adults and children will be attending!

MJ actually have a few like that too I was wondering about!

@MJ I did 'The Reynolds/Smith Family'.

Katherine, when you did the names underneath was it just

Mr. and Mrs. John Smith

Jane Smith

?

That makes sense. I have one that's been boggling my mind for a while. My Aunt was never married but gave her daughters her ex's last name, he's has never been in the picture but won't give up his rights so my two cousins have had to keep his last name and now my aunt has a bf of 5 years so the family actually has 3 last names.

I did the "Smith Family." And it worked out well.

Awesome! Thanks ladies now just have to make sure my guest list titles are consistent!

We just did, "The Smith Family"

I wish we would have done the whole, "we have reserved ___ seats in your honor" thing. Instead, we are getting RSVP's with people just adding guests on. I guess only putting the guest's names who are invited on the invitation isn't enough.

That is a brilliant idea @MJ!

Maybe i will do "we have reserved 4 seats in your honor" "___ number of people attending"

So they know their maximum and then they can fill in the number coming in case someone cannot make it!

It's funny because y mother and I spent 6 hours addressing and stuffing invites being pain staking my careful to make it perfect. My FH dragged his feet about getting addresses for the last 18 guests and since it's so incredibly late now I rushed through getting them addressed and stuffed that I forgot to write in the number of seats reserved. Soooo, I'm just hoping those people will understand by how it's addressed on the outer envelope. By this point I stopped caring about the little things because the rsvp date is supposed to be April 1st! We'll be lucky if we hear from them by the final head count day.

For the names underneath for one I wrote "Miss Lila (last name)" and another one I wrote "Miss Elle and Master Collin" without last name because it was already long.

The only one with kids invited I spelled out the names because it's FH's uncle by marriage and the uncle's aunt casually mentioned coming to the ceremony. She didn't ask and she's not invited so I wrote the names out...don't need surprise guests showing up! Lol.

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When we ordered the envelopes with recipient addressing, we put the exact names of who was invited on each envelope (ie. Mr and Mrs. Smith and then underneath John and Sally) to prevent people from thinking they can invite 10 guests if we used something like "The Smith Family". And then we put the number of seats reserved on the RSVP card.

Ours state "we have reserved __ seats in your honor" and I'm writing names on them of the specific guests and praying there are no surprises or crashers, LbVS!

I would probably write the parents names on one line and then the kids on the line below so that it's completely clear who is invited.