Wording Help Please?

Hello!

What about this....

PLEASE SAVE THE DATE

APRIL 27, 2013

TO CELEBRATE THE MARRIAGE OF

MRS K

&

MR K

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, FLORIDA

FORMAL INVITATION TO FOLLOW.

Do your German guests understand STDs? We sent a few to the German relatives and they thought it was the invitation, even though it said "formal invitation to follow" on the STD. They're mostly older though.

Do you think if it says "to celebrate the marriage of" people will assume it's celebration only and not an actual wedding ceremony as well? Also, although I am going by Mrs K legally in Germany, I do plan to use my maiden name on the wedding invitations. Would this be wrong? I just think it would look weird as Mrs K and Mr K.

Good question on the STD, probably not but they are all of DH's friends mainly and just a few family members so not so many that we can't explain it to.

PS. What I really want the wording to say is "Please join us as we do this again in English bc I was too damn nervous to translate my German ceremony the first time"

I can see what you mean. I don't think the STD has to be that specific though. We barely had any verbage on ours - it was mostly the photo of us, our names, the date, the city, "save the date" and our wedding website.

I say save the formal wording for your invitation and make it look like this:

Together with their families (optional)

Your full married name

&

Your H's full married name

Request the pleasure of your company

At a ceremony to honor their marriage union

Saturday, April 27, 2013

Six o'clock in the evening

Such and such resort

Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida

Full reception to follow

Everybody knows you're legally married anyway, and if you're going by Mrs K already, I think it would be strange to revert back to your maiden name. Especially since you'll by going by Mrs K for another whole year already. I've been to a few weddings where the couple was already married overseas, and it feels weird to me when they kind of pretend it never happened. KWIM?

Your p.s. is really funny.

If you are already legally married, and everyone knows it, your names can go on the same line.

PLEASE SAVE THE DATE

APRIL 27, 2013

TO WITNESS

Mr. and Mrs. K

RENEW THEIR VOWS IN ENGLISH

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, FLORIDA

FORMAL INVITATION TO FOLLOW.

Mine was a poem.. it was just goofy..

"Jen & Denna

Invite you to celebrate

so save the date!

There's food and dancing,

drinks to be had!

Your presence there

will make them glad!

If you have questions

(we thought you might)

please check out

our wedding website!"

or something like that.. too tired to really remember

Our invites will read something like "invited to celebrate as they exchange their vows"

or "celebrate the marraige of"... oi.. I forget.. too lazy to check.. haha.

Jen will you go by your married name on your invites?

@Hayley C- Were not treating this as a vow renewal as we never exchanges vows in our German ceremony. It was only a legal union here (Germany does things very different from the US in regards to even a civil ceremony there, a civil ceremony here is much like the day you go to get your marriage licence in the US, basically your approved for your marriage to take place, sign your marriage licence). Most everyone has an actual Wedding following this ceremony here in Germany, we are just choosing to wait a year and do our Wedding in the US.

Thanks for the help so far.

Oh i like the POEM Jen!!!!!!!! mine is a renewal and the STDs still say "for the wedding of" cause it IS a wedding.... they've never been too it, so i say go ahead for the STDs. PLus I will assume most ppl know you're married already.....

HOWEVER, my invites say: The pleasure of your company is requested as Sabrina & Christopher K. reaffirm their wedding vows...blah blah blah

We didn't send out STD's, but on our invites I put

Mike and Elisa Klemm

invite you to share in the continuation of our love

as we exchange vows once again on

Tuesday, November 6th 2pm

Blah, blah, blah... you get the idea.