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Someone I know, who has been to a great deal of weddings over the decades, recently received an invitation that ended "carriages at midnight". She'd never come across this before and neither had I. I find it to be a confusing thing to say and rather pompous when you could just use "normal person words" to convey the message clearer. Has anyone come across this before?

Yeah, that's what it means, but it took me a second to figure it out. And the person who received the invitation was really unsure - her sister thought it meant they were being picked up and taken back to the rail station for free and her other sister thought some carriages were going to come and take them for a ride about the grounds. So not very clear what it means in that language when it could have been phrased simpler. I was asking if you'd heard it before, though - have you?

@eloping: Yep, fun and games over indeed! But that ambiguity is what I find weird - you're guessing between whether you're being told to drive home or told they're going to drive you somewhere....... and if you assume wrongly, you could end up with no taxi booked or whatever. Chances are you'd ask someone what it means, which happened in this case, but some people are literal and would assume they're being taken away in a carriage!

@Magdalena: Haha there was a moment where they googled the venue and did a ring round of their group of sisters to make sure everyone knew it was gonna be a "wear a hat" wedding :)

@seven12: I don't think the bride would go in a carriage. There's a stigma since Katie Price/Jordan's wedding, I think. They're beautiful though, it's a shame there's a stigma.