Minted Wedding Invites - rsvp on back?

Remember that you don't need one invitation for every guest. You mentioned 250 invites. Does that mean you have about 500 guests?

Your thread title mentioned having the RSVP on the back of the invitation. If you are having them mail the RSVP back to you, that won't work. The guests needs to be able to keep the invitation. If you are doing on line RSVPs, you could print on the back similar to what is pictured.

I personally don't see anything wrong with info on the back but some people may not look at it. I would definitely leave out your registry info. That should be either word of mouth or found on your website. And I still think it's important to include RSVP cards for older generations.

I think this is a good option if you do indeed need 250 invitations. Its per household not per person. Leave registry off, put on the website. I don't think its necessary to have to send physical RSVPs. Do you have a larger older crowd? Do they not know anyone to RSVP for them? I'm also sure you can call and ask them if you don't see their electronic RSVP. You only run the risk of them not seeing the back initially. Maybe a small business card size that says "For more information and to RSVP please visit the website". Either way i think it's fine you may just have to answer some questions later.

If it is formal, this is fine. If it is black tie, it is not. I would just plan on having to follow up with some people that don't flip it over.

100% you need to take off your registry info, that is not supposed to be on your invitations. I also don't think you need the timeline.

Another way to lower the cost would be to forego the foil. It is beautiful but definitely adds to the cost.

A couple things:

1.) Be prepared for a few guests to miss that there's important information on the back of the invitation. There usually isn't stuff on the back of a wedding invitation, so it's possible some people won't think to flip it over. You may need to call a few extra guests after your RSVP deadline, just in case this happens.

2.) Speaking of RSVP deadlines, it would be helpful if you included yours in the line asking guests to RSVP on your wedding website.

3.) It's considered very rude to mention gifts on a wedding invitation (or on any inserts). It is, however, acceptable to put registry info on your website. The link to your website is already provided with your RSVP info. If any guests want to get you a gift and want your registry info, they can then click on your registry page.

4.) Am I understanding that your ceremony is beginning at 3pm and ending at 3:30 or are you saying guests can begin arriving at the venue at 3 pm and the ceremony will not begin until 3:30? This is unclear. If it's the latter, perhaps it would be more helpful if you stated the doors will open at 3pm.

5.) No matter how the schedule for the ceremony is to be interpreted, it seems you have a gap of at least an hour between the end of your ceremony and beginning of the reception, but everything is happening at one venue. What are your guests doing in between?

Thank you all for the input! I absolutely love the foil. I found many other designs but this matches the feel of our wedding 100%.

It's about a 500 person wedding - and that's excluding many.

250 invitations leaves about 20 of them for issues, errors and keepsakes. His mother is the youngest of 11, mine is the oldest of 8. He has 6 siblings, I have 4 - all close.

The back mock up isn't a final. It was a temporary throw together from the information on minted mixed with the information we threw. I'll gladly take the advice to pull the registry information.

Again, thank you all!

If you're having guests RSVP through your wedding website, can you put all the information on there instead of the back of the invitation? Can you shift everything up on the front of your invitation so you can add the the line about your wedding website immediately below the "Reception to follow"?

My concern is that I would never think to flip over the invitation. I would just be confused why you didn't include a details or RSVP card.

Is it possible to just add a line on the bottom of the invitation that says something effective to:

"Please visit our website for additional information and to RSVP by ___whenever__" and then list the website?

I'd put that instead of the "Reception to follow". You can always change the wedding verbiage to "wedding ceremony and celebration of" in the first line to encompass the reception.

I feel like everything you are listing on the back of the invite belongs on the website anyway. Very few people include direction cards now since most people have smart phones & can just look up the address. You shouldn't list registry on invite or an inclusion card. And I don't think a timeline is necessary except you do have an hour gap that I'm assuming is your cocktail hour.

Minted has the all-in-one which are a little less expensive. We almost went that route but ended up taking advantage of the Vistaprint deal that ended yesterday.

I'm using Minted for my invites and am doing exactly what you are proposing with the back of my invites. I think it will work out just fine and will save a lot of money!

We scratched the registry, formalized the front, corrected the timeline and WOW!! They turned out gorgeous!! So many compliments on them! We went onto amazon and purchased gold foiled envelopes for super cheap and used those as our envelopes as the minted option was a little higher in price. LOVE them!