On wedding invitations, do I include the address of the church and reception location?

Question

On the wedding invitation, do you state the address of the church, or just the church name and city (everything will be held in a large city)? As well, for the reception, which is to be held at a different location later on in the day, how would I word this, and would I put the name of the location and address, or just the city where the location is at?

Here is what our invitations say so far:

Together with their families
Miss. X
and
Mr. Y
request the honour of your presence
at their marriage
Saturday the twenty-first of _____
Two thousand and ______
at ___o'clock in the afternoon
_____________United Church
City, Saskatchewan

Reception to follow
__________Hotel
city, Saskatchewan

The rose speaks of love silently, in a language
known only to the heart. --Unknown

I should also note that we have set up a wedding website, which will have all of the location information there, but this is assuming that everyone has access to the internet. Also, what would be a proper way to let invited guests know about the website? Would I add an insert in with the invitation just stating that more information and details are available for them there?

Answer 1

This looks good. Usually the reception card is separate. I like to include maps also.

Answer 2

It's really up to you.Formal invitation usually don't include addresses. I didn't put the address of the church on the wedding invitation. I did however put the address to the reception on the reception card. But to make sure everyone got there OK, I included small maps.

Answer 3

I wouldn't put the street address on the invitation, I would inclue a separate slip of paper with the address of the church and the address of the hotel where the reception is. My brother and sister-in-law did that just this year when they sent out their invitations they also included directions to both places using the routes that most people would take. Congrats on the wedding and good luck!

Answer 4

Most people include a second insert in the invitation if the reception is going to need the full address and a small map or something. These days, with MapQuest and Yahoo Maps and such people just really need the address to the place, you know? To save on paper and such, I would do it just as you have it, only add their street address for the Hotel and call it a day.

If anyone has any problems or questions, they can contact you beforehand... :)

Congratulations and good luck! :)

Answer 5

That looks great. (However I did notice you did not include either of your parents names. Was that intentional?)

Then I included a map. On one side I'd drawn a map that had the hotel, rehearsal site, church, and reception site marked on it.

On the back side, I had the addresses and phone numbers, with written turn by turn directions to each place.

I didn't have the actual street address or phone number to the reception site b/c no one is there during the day to answer the phone and when I typed in the street address on Yahoo and Map Quest it was WRONG! Do check that out before you assume they can get directions.

I also included in the welcome basket that I put in the hotel--an additional sheet that had that info in case they left it at home, with added directions to my in-laws house and my house. That way regardless if they were invited by his side or my side we could put the same welcome bag in everyones room and they could go by whichever house they wanted to.

The Reception card on the inside that says Please Join us after the Ceremony at Cameron Golf and Country Club--that often has the street address of it on it as well, if you have enough lines.

Answer 6

Hello and congratulations! I would not put an address on the invitations. The reception information should be listed separately on the reception card. You can print out (or have your local print shop do it) on a separate card, cut to size on the same/similar paper. It will all package together nicely. Hope this helps!

Answer 7

Don't put the address, but put the name of the plac and the city/town.

For example:

Reception to follow Our Reception Site, Reception City.

Have a direction card within your invite, just not on the actually announcement.

Answer 8

Leave the invitations as is - that's perfect. Enclose a separate card with the reception info and directions to the church and reception - you can often mapquest that yourself. Some reception halls give them to the brides for the invitations - ask 'em.

Answer 9

Unless you want x number of people calling to figure out where the church is include the address, and a map. People are coming from out of town and need to know how to get places.

Answer 10

I would put the addresses on the invitation. This way it may avoid some confusion (in case there are more than one church or hotel with the same name.)