Wedding One wedding, two receptions...on different days, so how do I do invitations?

[Amandine]

Okay, a little back story. My FI and I are originally from Michigan, but now live in Atlanta. We are getting married in the mountains of South Carolina, in a not-quite-as-small-as-we-wanted ceremony/reception. We are only inviting our nearest and dearest to SC. My parents want to throw us a reception/party in Michigan after the wedding. The wedding is Oct 25, and we are looking at party #2 being the weekend after Thanksgiving (I work as a retail manager, and the holidays are difficult to find a good date for, as you can probably imagine).

I am DIYing invitations, and this is my inspiration: Ryan Masuga. Let''s just say its a lot of work, but I think it will be fantastic.

Here is my dilemma, how do I invite people to two receptions in one invitation? As you can see, it''s not a traditional invitation. If it was, I would just stick two reception cards in the invite. What I am thinking of doing is the invitation on the left side of the booklet, and reception invite on the right, facing page. On the RSVP, I would put (roughly)

_____ Attending South Carolina
_____ Attending Michigan
_____ Attending both
_____ Attending neither

How would you word the MI reception invitation? Its not like I can say "oh, by the way, why don''t you join us in Michigan, too?". The regular invite is the traditional parents requesting the pleasure of your company, etc..

Perhaps, "Please join us in Michigan on Dec 1st"....ah, I don''t know! Please, please, I need help with this! We really need to get these to the printer soon.

 

[Sabine]

Are you inviting every person you send an invite to to both? And if so, then why would you have both? I''m assuming there will be fewer invited to SC, and more to Michigan, so I kinda think you should just do two separate invites. Otherwise, you could expect everyone to show up to both!

 

[Amandine]

Date: 7/7/2008 10:36:39 PM
Author: Sabine
Are you inviting every person you send an invite to to both? And if so, then why would you have both? I''m assuming there will be fewer invited to SC, and more to Michigan, so I kinda think you should just do two separate invites. Otherwise, you could expect everyone to show up to both!

No, we are not inviting everyone to both, and there will be more invited to Michigan. I wanted to include the Michigan one with the SC to let people know there is an option, and if due to finances, gas, etc., if they can''t make it that they can see us in Michigan. There are some who would only be getting a Michigan invitation, like my Mom''s co-workers.

Does this make sense?