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forgot the back of invitation!

Just a heads up, Your RSVP by date is showing 2019. So make sure you update to 2020.

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Yes thanks! I caught that right after I posted and changed it right awayXD

1.) “Please join us for the wedding of...” is totally fine. “Together with their families...” would also be fine if you want to mention your parents in some way.
2.) I wouldn’t call it necessary since your website is on your RSVP card, but I don’t think it takes away from the invitation either. You could keep it or get rid of it, I don’t think it would make a big difference either way. Traditionally, the bride’s name comes first on everything until after the wedding, then the husband’s comes first. So if you’re super traditional, your first initial should lead.
3.) I would definitely keep the separate card.

I love these! I think they're beautiful and for the price, you can't beat it! I'll have to look into this for myself. I just can't imagine spending hundreds on something that people will end up throwing away.

Anyway,

1. I think the wording you have is fine. I've been going back and forth on this myself. My fiance and I are paying for the wedding on our own 100% and I wanted the invitation to say something similar to yours. I've been wondering if I'm being selfish in not wanting it to say "Together with our families." I know in the grand scheme of things it isn't the biggest deal. If you want to change your wording to include your families I say go for it. It looks like it would fit and not change your layout too much.

2. I don't think what you have on the back is totally necessary IF you have it on a separate card. I would be worried as well about people not flipping the card over and then missing what's on the back, but I worry about everything lol and I have always seen the woman listed first, so E+C, but honestly, I don't think it's really that important which is listed first.

3. If it's not technically an RSVP card that someone would send back I feel like you could skip it. But going back to point #2, people may miss it if it's on the back. Personally, I would have it on a separate card, but that's just me.

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Thanks so much!!

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Thank you so much!! some of the things we worry about are so silly

If you do go this route i HIGHLY recommend doing the Postcard on vista and then going to https://www.greetingsisland.com/invitations/wedding to get the background (i deleted all of the words and just saved the background so i could type everything in myself in Vista-print) then save it as an image and set it as my background on the postcard - otherwise its next to impossible to find a background online that doesn't pop up blurry.

But greetingsisland is like a lifesaver, really you could just pick one of their designs, fill in the blanks and you're good to go print them off yourself at like a ups store or something - I just found that Vista-print was just even cheaper still than any other option lol

I think the “please join us for the wedding of” is fine but if you’re not loving it, what we did was “Emily Rae & Casey Jay request the pleasure of your company at the celebration of their marriage” and then followed by the information.


Also, unless you WANT people to text you rsvps, I’d recommend phrasing like “please RSVP on our website. If you have difficulty, please text Emily at xxx”. This way it’s not like an “either option is fine” thing, it’s like a “please use the website BUT if you must, here’s my number because I’d rather you text me than not RSVP at all” lol.

I agree with the previous posters.


Also.. I would make the To in "Reception to Follow" lowercase.
They are beautiful and at a great price. I wish I would have thought of that.

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GREAT points!! thank you so much!! I love your phrasing on the RSVP part, I don't want people to text me all day but if it will get them to RSVP I'll sacrifice

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Thank you so much for the suggestion!

We chose to put our names first on our invites and then mention "together with our parents" below regardless of who paid. Just giving you another idea! I think they look great and the few changes mentioned above would make it perfect.

1) If it were me, I'd state "together with their families". My husband's family paid for $0 of our wedding, my dad covered $40k and my mom and stepdad covered 15k, we didn't pay for any of it. That didn't change how involved each parent was nor did it matter.

2) I think you could include this on the RSVP card, so something like "more information about RSVP and accommodations can be found at www.xxx.com" or something like that. I think the back is pretty though and if you can afford it I'd keep it. I don't think the monogram order matters.

3) I would include it to ensure people know how many are invited and to remind them they need to RSVP. Sometimes people miss things on the back of a card.

My only critique is that you might want to consider having the words "details on reverse" (or something to that effect) on the front side of the invitation. I'm doing that for my double-sided invitation, so that people remember to look at the back!

View Quoted Comment Haha that’s how I felt too! That’s what we did and I had exactly 1 person actually RSVP via text. Everyone else used the website (and a couple older relatives called my mom 🤷🏻‍♀️😂)

The kerning on "kindly reply by" and "please join us for" and "Minnesota" Is awkward- the spacing between the letters and the words is almost identical. You may want to change the spacing or pick a different font.