Invitation wording - feedback welcome

Kindly respond by July 1, 2014

__________________________________________________,

We have reserved ____ seats in your honor

____ Cannot wait to celebrate with you

____ Will celebrate from afar

Please initial entrée selection

____Boneless Short Ribs _____ Veal Saltimbocca

____ Moroccan Sea Bass ____ Manicotti

That is very close to the wording that I am planning to use, so it gets my vote. I am doing a third card with hotel information on it, so that is where I am putting the URL for our wedding website. If you don't need that extra card, I would have put it where you did. I really like your design.

Some suggestions:

-I don't really like the "..." after "helped us become who we are". Just remove them?

-Adults-only reception. I think it needs the hyphen. Also instead of saying "formal" reception I think you should just put that in the bottom right corner as per tradition. It sounds a little odd the way it is now.

-Don't put a period after marriage, because that's the only one that's in the whole invite so it looks funny (I'm not sure grammatically what is completely correct, but it just seems weird).

- I suppose I'm just overly traditional, but I find that RSVP form rather rude. It seems to be super common and even recommended on WW. The reason I don't like it is that it rudely ASSUMES your guests are going to be rude and invite people on their own. It's I guess "more work" but what I am doing is writing the guests names at the top "Mr. & Mrs so-and-so". It's just more subtle and it makes it more personal as well. But honestly that's just me, everyone else will say your approach is great, so maybe don't worry about it...

Thanks Donna. I don't have a separate card as these are the foldable invites so I'll have to leave the website where it is.

Amanda - thanks for the suggestions. I put the... in last minute and have now removed. Wasn't sure if it would link the two sections of the invite. They are all in one - foldable so the format is a little different from the traditional.

Adults-only agreed and I've now hyphenated. I don't even want to write that but Fiance is emphatic. LOL. Since our invitation is a different format I'm not sure about putting it in the corner. I'll think that one over.

Agree with the period. I think I copied it with period from somewhere else but you are right, no other punctuation anywhere!

I understand your feelings about the reserved seats.

I would also suggest changing "adults-only" to "adult-only", otherwise looks good.