Ceremony & Reception at different places INVITATION ETIQUETTE

There's typically an insert card for the reception information.

You can put it all on the same invitation. Our invitation has the location of our ceremony, and then says

Reception to follow

seven o'clock in the evening

[name and address of reception venue]

On a separate card. I have this for my wedding.

I am interested in how people laid this out as well. I wasn't planning on doing an insert for the reception card, but we do have a website...

Personally, I am having a ceremony in a church and the reception at another location. I listed both locations with addresses and times on my wedding invitations. The biggest reason for doing that is because then it is all on one card and having multiple cards in your invitation makes it easier to lose them. It also adds to the price of mailing due to weight, because you may need to send RSVP cards with their envelopes and perhaps direction cards too. Everything fit on my 6" x 9" invitation and was not over-crowded with wording or spacing. I worded mine like this:

Friday, the eighteenth of August

two thousand and seventeen

at three in the afternoon

Church Name

Address

Reception to follow at six in the evening

Venue Name

Address

Just a thought to consider

We had our main invitation which was just for the ceremony, and placed "dinner and dancing to follow" at the bottom. Then we had a reception card, RSVP card with envelope and then a smaller insert with website information.

We did an insert card. I felt like it looked way to wordy with both addresses on our invitation, but I did try it both ways to see what we preferred.

Typically it goes on an insert card for the Reception details.

The super classy thing to do would be to add an insert but that could be an additional 30-50 cents. You can certainly add it to the invite with wording like "reception to follow (address/time)"

We put our reception information on our invite as well to save a little money. I did our invites on vista print, so we could add and customize information as needed.

We did something similar to @Mary.

ceremony date/time

Church Name

church address

Reception to follow

Reception Name

reception address

We also included our wedding website on our invites where people could get more detailed information for the ceremony and reception (i.e., directions, maps etc.).

Thank you so much ladies!

I really appreciate all the feedback

"Reception to follow at

{name}"

Then have a separate card with addresses and maps of ceremony and reception.

This is the wording we used:

Mr. and Mrs. XXXXX

request the honor of your presence

at the marriage of their daughter

Katie Jane

to

Christopher Roy

son of Mrs. XXXX

on Saturday, the nineteenth of August

two thousand seventeen

at half past five o’clock in the evening

Hammond Castle

80 Hesperus Avenue

Gloucester, Massachusetts

Reception to follow

at seven o’clock in the evening

Hawthorne Hotel

18 Washington Square West

Salem, Massachusetts

For details and directions:

http://www.XXXXX.com

Details card! Our wedding had 2 different locations for ceremony and reception as well. We had a Details card that included the address of the reception venue and our wedding website (which had a map and directions on it), but I know many/most people put the address and directions on the card.

I prefer having them on the same card and set up how people have suggested with just listing the addresses. We are doing this and while yes it saves money, I hate getting invitations and there being a lot of different inserts to have to keep track of. I've seen a lot of set ups with both ceremony and reception listed on invitationsbydawn.com which may help you with layout/wording if you need more help.

View Quoted Comment Where did you find invitations that had enough space for both?

View Quoted Comment I got them at Vistaprint, they came out really nice and extremely affordable! You can also jazz them up a bit depending the quality of the card, matte, gloss, etc.

Is it odd or out of place to consider putting reception information on the back of the invitation? The front would have the ceremony information and mention a reception to follow, and then on the reverse you could put your reception venue and rsvp info if you wanted? It would save on cost if it's only one card to send, but not sure how well it would be received.

This thread is amazing! I am working on my invitations too, but my pickle is...I don’t have a Vegas venue yet! 🤦🏾‍♀️ So my thought was to just put “reception to follow” on the invitations, and once the RSVP date comes, I’ll know exactly how many people to plan for (we are planning really early since it’s a destination wedding, so having an early RSVP date still gives plenty of time to book a venue.) suggestions? I just don’t want to commit to a place on the invitations and then when the day comes we are going somewhere else. Oh btw, transportation will be provided for the guest to get to and from the venue