Help with invitations please! For anyone who had/having a church wedding

We made up little post cards that have the reception information on it and the directions from the church to the reception that we mailed with our invites and will also have at the church. The hotel info is just going to be word of mouth or via email for our out of town guests staying at a hotel. The only info we had on our invites was the wedding date, time, church/church address, etc.

We are providing our OOT guests with directions from:

airports to the hotel

hotel to church

church to reception location

reception location to hotel

For our guests in the area:

church to reception

Each will be on a 5 x 7 card

I know it's alot, but want to make sure I cover all bases for our OOT

For the church we just put the name of the church with the address on the invite. All of our guests have the ability to use a GPS or their phone to find it, but most of them are from the local area and won't have trouble anyways. We are also doing the same for the reception site. For the OOT guests staying in a hotel we will be booking their hotel and picking them up from the airport to take them there. One option could be to put a map on the back of the invites that numbers each location. So one would be the church, 2 would be the reception site, and 3 could be the hotel. Then below the map you could put the more detailed directions, but also include the address for each place.

I had a DW in Vermont. We provided two different ways to get to Vermont, either all highway, or the fall peeper picturesque route. I made them on insert cards designed to look like my Michael's print it yourself invites.

My daughter chose not to include directions on her invitation suite. She felt most people have GPSs or access to a pc. For those guests from OOT, she is providing directions to the church in her welcome bags.

Great! Thanks for the ideas.

We didn't include directions because it would have been too complicated to have them for every angle. We did put the addresses on them and if someone doesn't have a computer to mapquest it or a gps we know they will call us or our parents for directions. I think many of our guests know the area well enough to get around with the exception of a few.

We included the church address and name on the ceremony invite, the reception address and name on the reception card.

For actual directions, hotel, airport and rental car information, we're putting that all on the wedding website

We did the same thing by putting the address of the church on the invitation and sent A separate reception card with that address along with the invitations. It gets too wordy of you put all that on there. People will either already looked it up before leaving wherever they are staying, have GPSs or will follow the limo or even other guests

I don't think we will do directions but will give information about the hotel for our OOT guest, My hotel is providing shuttles

Oh man, our enclosures were about the death of me.

I listed the church address on the ceremony invitation and stated "reception to follow". Then we had a reception card with the address for the reception venue and start time so people knew it was immediate.

Then we had a separate card entitled "Directions". We just chose the nearest north/south highway and routed guests from there to the church parking lot. Then we routed guests from the church parking lot to the reception venue and created a little map at the bottom.

I'll see if I can find the file so you can see how we did it.

Okay, here they are and what the whole thing looked like. We used pocketfold invitations so we had 4 enclosures total - hotels, RSVP, reception, directions. If you're not using pocketfolds you can always just stack the cards on top of each other.

Crap I take that back we had 5 enclosures. One specifically for the shuttle, which picked up guests at the hotel. It got way too wordy when we tried to combine pickup times and FAQ about the shuttle with directions and such.

We didn't include directions for our invitations. I plan on having the directions with the OOT guest bags at the hotel. Most people that are not going to be staying at the hotel know how to get to our ceremony and venue they are about 5 minutes away from each other.

Thanks everyone! The comments helped a lot! I know what to do now. I'm going to put the address for the church on the ceremony invitation. Then, the address for the reception on the reception card. I'll do a separate enclosure with simple directions, info for the shuttle and hotel. I'll also put the wedding website on that one.

@krisalicious Those are beautiful!