A little traditional in your wedding planning? A young couple (or a young couple of poor students) with generous families? Classic or formal?
Alex and I could fit into all those categories, and our wedding invitations reflect that. While we have still yet to pick out invitations/wording for our CA wedding, our UK invitations will be ordered any day now. As we’re a reletively young couple (25, and almost 25, respectively) and both full-time postgrad students, our change jar is only so deep. Thankfully, we have parents who are willing to help out, chip in, and make possible our simple, meaningful dual wedding dreams in every way they can. We wanted to honor their financial and guiding role in our wedding day so Alex and I have gone for a rather formal, classic introduction of ‘The joyful parents of…’ (stolen from my friends’ wedding invites where both the bride and the grooms’ parents were paying for the wedding).
We also wanted to reflect the legal aspect of our wedding by using ‘civil partnership’ (term for same-sex unions in the UK) in our invitations wording instead of wedding, marriage, union, ceremony, etc, etc. ‘Civil partnership’ is clunky, but it’s legit, baby, and we’re proud of it. (This will probably change for our CA wedding, however, as unless the US Supreme Court decides to throw down some civil rights briefs, it ain’t gonna be a legal hitchin beneath the Siskiyou mountains.)
We’ve also got two versions of invitations because only some people will be invited to the ceremony as the hotel is a rather small venue and our reception venue can accomodate more of our friends. So, the second version people is for ‘reception only’ guests.
As for RSVP cards, we’re postcarding it up! Only one envelope total (carrying both invite and RSVP) and we’ve yet to come up with a quirky way to to say ‘Yay’ or ‘Nay.’ Still, I’m stoked about postcard RSVPs for a number of reasons. 1) Less paper = more trees on the planet 2) cheaper postage 3) quotes & pictures on one side 4) I really, really like postcards.
Other than that, we’ve basically gone with the usual display of date/time/place as modeled by our stationers, baumbirdy on Etsy. Pretty straightforward, we thought, but you can check it out and if you’ve got any other suggestions, send them our way!
Invitation Wording:
The Joyful Parents of
Alexandra Grace Crisp
and
Erica Marie Gillingham
invite you to join in the celebration of
the civil partnership of their daughters on
Saturday, the Seventeenth of April Two Thousand & Ten
at Twelve Thirty in the Afternoon
(Venue), (City)
and, for the reception only guests:
The Joyful Parents of
Alexandra Grace Crisp
and
Erica Marie Gillingham
invite you to join in the reception of
the civil partnership of their daughters on
Saturday, the Seventeenth of April Two Thousand & Ten
at Five O’clock in the Evening
(Venue), (City)
Clementine Invitation by Baumbirdy on Etsy