Reception Only Invitations??

Either 2 kinds of invites, all same reception cards

or same invites and 2 kinds of reception cards. Depends on your preference or which would cost you less.

Bride Middle Last

and

Groom Middle Last

will be married in a private

wedding ceremony on

Saturday, the fourth of October

two thousand fourteen

Please celebrate with us at our

reception following the ceremony

at six o'clock in the evening

Harbor view Golf Club

8710 Harbor view Club Drive

Hilliard, Ohio

-or- another way to have all the same invite?

Because you have shared in our lives

by your friendship and love, we

Bride Middle Last

and

Groom Middle Last

together with our parents

invite you to celebrate

our new life together

at our reception following

our private wedding ceremony

on Friday, the ninth of May

two thousand fourteen

at six o'clock in the evening

The Hall of Casa Monica

Four North Bend Avenue

St. Augustine, Florida

Hmm, i like that. thanks!

I think the "rule" is that whoever is invited to the ceremony, should also be invited to the reception, and vice versa. I think that would be kinda weird to invite people only to a reception, especially if it's in the same place as the ceremony. Most people who have destination weddings have a home reception, which is different than this situation. If you must have a different guest list for the reception, then yes, do separate invitations. But I think you will probably receive a lot of questions from your guests about this.

Edit (I pressed submit too fast lol): I don't know if it's okay or not, but that's my guess!

I don't think it's uncommon for this. Some people want to celebrate with everyone with a reception, but want only close family and friends for the actual ceremony. Pretty much no different from a destination wedding.

I like Hayley's idea/wording. Just word your invitations like that and instead of having a reception insert, you could do a ceremony insert for those who are invited to the ceremony. That may save money VS buying two different invites and then additional reception cards for the ones who are invited to both.

Okay then I was wrong lol..my bad! I've never heard of it, so I wasn't sure. You learn something new everyday :-)

In that case, go with Hayley's idea..she will never steer you wrong!

The ceremony insert could say something like

You are invited to the private ceremony of

Bride Middle Last

and

Groom Middle Last

which will take place at

TIME

name of ceremony location

address of ceremony location

city, state of ceremony location

Are you able to have the ceremony in the reception room? Guests could sit at their tables for the ceremony.

I'm in the same boat! I think it's okay to invite some only to a reception but the opposite of only the ceremony and not the reception is not okay (which you're not doing anyways) But I definitely like Hayley's wording and might use that myself!

I like that Kristina.

The only reason I said 2 Reception cards was if you wanted to put any other info on it.

The pleasure of your company is requested

to help us celebrate

Cocktails 6:00

Dinner 7:00

Dancing until 11:00

***Now that I think of it, that is kinda redundant.

but I really like that the Invitation will be more like the "reception card" telling of time and place, and that the insert will be the "Ceremony card" Great Idea Kristina.

(and I had the ceremony on the dance floor... so everyone was able to come to both, it turned out nice and saved money from needed to rent a 2nd room. Didn't need to pay for chair set up either)

I think it's OK to do this (and I like Hayley's suggestions) but I would be afraid that some people might get confused and show up to the ceremony anyhow OR they might be offended that they aren't invited to the ceremony.

I could be completely wrong, but it seems a bit dicey.

Visuals if you want to have the ceremony in the same room. That way if someone comes early they are not offended if they didn't get invited to both.

Since the room hold more than you are inviting, maybe they can set up some chairs on the dance floor to make you and aisle? and then others can sit at the tables?

Thanks Hayley. =) Your idea was good too though, just thought it would save her more money to do it the way I suggested.

She can also place the ceremony insert card in front of the reception invite so that those invited to the ceremony will see/read that card first.

Edited - I've also been in a wedding where it was same location. She just had all the guests sit at the tables which would be their seats for the whole wedding. My FH has suggested we have ours at the same place, but for a couple of reasons I'd rather not.

1. I'd like an outside ceremony (reception is inside)

2. It's a nice place, but could get better formal pictures & such at another location

3. I just am not thrilled over doing it that way or "kicking them out" while we rearrange the tables and such. Not having professionals come in to set up so I'd be in charge of transforming the room myself while all guests were standing outside waiting.

Re the invites...I would go with Hayley's suggetion.

I dropped the idea of an outside wedding when I saw what the cost of a tent and chair rental would be. Everything that is taking place for the wedding weekend, including the accomodations for our guests are at the same inn. We are being married in the same room as the reception. We are simply turning the chairs that are normally pushed into the table, side ways to face the fire place. The look is roomie and works out quite well.

*rolls eyes*

Anyways.... she might not be able to use just one room. Or perhaps she just doesn't like that idea. I think if she'll be fine using either Hayley's idea or mine.

I'm just going to have different worded invites for those who are invited to both and those who are invited to just the reception. Basically the same, just different time, one says ceremony & reception, one says reception, etc. They are at the same place I just wanted a small wedding, but have so many people coming, so I figured I could have the best of both worlds! Also there will be set up going on while FH and I take pictures so I wouldn't want to "kick out" the guests like Kristina mentioned.

There is a big religious group around here that holds private ceremonies in their temples (which you have to be ordained to go in) so generally the cards say something along the lines of,

[bride] and [groom] are to be married on [date] at [place], you are invited to a reception in their honor on [date] [info].

And if they want to invite you to the ceremony they put an insert card in saying

please join us for the ceremony on [date, place]

Thanks so much ladies! I really had no idea how to go about this. Im doing separate rooms because i didnt like the whole idea of kicking the guests out and re-setting up, and the ceremony room is so perfect for a winter wedding so i HAD to do it in there I really like the idea of reception invitations and a ceremony insert.