i have my cousins coming to my wedding day but i want to invite a guest/partner to the evening reception how to i word/make the invitations?
2007-01-22 08:31:13 · 17 answers · asked by Richard H 1 in Family & Relationships ➔ Weddings
I would do the separate invitations thing if thats what you want to do but i would also ring to just let them know why. If it is financial, let them know and i am sure they will understand. They may decide to miss the ceremony but still come to the evening do together, making it cheaper still!
Its bloomin expensive paying for a wedding and i was really tight when my husband wanted to invite just anyone. I told him to cut it back to the people he really though he would in touch with in say 5 years time. Why would you want anyone there who is just anyone so to speak.
2007-01-22 09:09:16 · answer #1 · answered by peachy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I had this problem too. I had a civil ceromony but there were only spaces for 40 people in the room and my family is rather large and so is hubbies so we only sent out invitations to immediate family and aunties/uncles. No cousins were invited to the ceromony. I also spoke to them in person saying although i wanted everyone to attend we can only have 40 people at the ceromony due to lack of space and the registrar would not allow anymore. Anybody who could not attend their invite went to the next people on our list. Everybody else was invited to the evening reception. Just explain before the invites are sent out to the people who you have to exclude from the day but are welcome in the evening. If done in a sensitive way they will understand.
2007-01-23 14:05:23 · answer #2 · answered by sonic 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You don't. If I am invited to a wedding but can't bring my spouce or significant other, but I can bring them to the reception, then chances are that I am not coming to the wedding. It is actually rude to invite someone and say no guests.
2007-01-22 16:34:12 · answer #3 · answered by UT FAN 2 · 3⤊ 1⤋
You mail the envelope out saying
Ms. Jill Smith & Guest
Then they know they can invite 1 guest
2007-01-22 23:06:49 · answer #4 · answered by Educated 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Send out separate invites for the day and night, with just your cousins' names on the day ones, and cousin 'and guest' on the night ones. Or simply, just put their names on the invties, and write a personalised note on the bottm sayingthat they are welcome to bring a guest in the evening do.
2007-01-22 17:59:50 · answer #5 · answered by Linda 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ok it usually costs money for teh reception and not teh ceremony. Put on teh invitation your cousins name & guest. Then teh guest will come to teh ceremony and reception. You can't invite teh guest to teh reception and not the ceremony or vice versa. It is rude!
2007-01-22 16:37:18 · answer #6 · answered by Molly SH 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
just do a seperate evening invitation for that person and their guest. i was having the same problem so i just thought stuff it and invited every1 to the ceremony
2007-01-24 09:58:06 · answer #7 · answered by louise21 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
we had the same thing in our very large family and it had to be restricted to cousins for the more formal do, to be honest a phone call was sufficient to explain, suggest invites go to cousins only then ring to tell them they can bring girlfreind etc in the evening, have a great day
2007-01-22 16:36:17 · answer #8 · answered by grahamralph2000 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
send two invitations one for the day and one for the night time do just put the partners name on the night time invite
2007-01-22 16:44:33 · answer #9 · answered by LINDSEY M 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why would you not just invite the guest to the ceremony as well?
2007-01-22 16:34:26 · answer #10 · answered by Kenneth F 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋