In the evening or afternoon?

I say evening but i may be wrong. When i think of afternoon i think of between 12-3

I think I would go with evening

I would say evening

Evening

Technically it's afternoon. I looked it up. 6 is evening, 5 is still considered afternoon.

I would say evening. We said afternoon for our four o'clock start time. Also out of curiosity, when are you sending your invites out?

I would say evening. 5 in the afternoon doesn't sound right to me.

ETA: definitely use the appropriate one though. If 5 is technically the afternoon, then say afternoon

Afternoon. It may not sound right, but that's what it is.

Afternoon

I don't know what is technically correct, but I think in this case that evening sounds better.

Or if you worried just say 5:00 pm

Go with whatever's technically correct, but in August it stays light so late that I think afternoon would be fine.

I remember my sister went through this. Although 6:00 and up is technically evening, she did research and 5:00-6:00 seemed to be an "in between " area. Her ceremony was at 5:30; since it was a very formal wedding, she went with evening.

Yeah I feel like evening sounds better but technically it is supposed to be afternoon. I have 2 lines to fill for symmetry purposes so if I just put 5 o'clock, it wouldn't look right.

@amber we are sending them the end of this month with an RSVP date of July 17 which gives about a month and a half to RSVP. We have to have our guest count to the venue by July 26th so this gives us a few days to hunt everyone down haha

I may be a little behind on the invites but we just had a hard time finding something we were happy with.

@beach babe that is something that I'm finding on google. Some people say depending on the formality, you could make 5 afternoon or evening. We are a little more casual but afternoon still doesn't sound right to me.

Evening

@becomingbailey I would wait to sent them out until a month out. 6 weeks is a long time and people might just plain forget to RSVP. When they get it they'll know if they have plans or not so don't need 6 weeks to decide... I did a month and felt that was long because RSVP week we still had 1/2 no RSVPs and many just said they forgot

Lol we had this discussion too. Ours is at 4pm so we werent for sure what to put. We ended up with afternoon. But in my opinion id say 5 is evening.

I had the same issue since my ceremony is at 5:30 and one etiquette site I checked said if it's a more formal event, use evening. More casual, use afternoon

I would say evening

Evening!