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Ok I tried searching for this answer a little bit but I'm honestly so stressed at the moment that I think I might explode. [deep breath here]

I've already printed out all my outer envelopes only addressing adult names (anyone over 18 receiving their own card). I've also already printed out my RSVP postcards that say at the bottom "Total # attending ___ of ____" and I'm handwriting in the 2nd # so they know how many people I am inviting.

But since I am not doing an inner envelope, I started to worry that maybe it isn't that obvious who I am inviting when, for example, my outer envelope says just "Mr. Joe Smith" and the RSVP card says "Total # attending ____ of 2". Maybe I should address them further somewhere with "Mr. Joe Smith and guest" or "Mr. & Mrs. Joe Smith and family" just to make sure it's clear?!?! I CANNOT re-do my RSVP cards--that will be way too expensive and time consuming.

So do I...
1) re-do my outer envelopes to say "Mr. Joe Smith and guest" or "Mr. & Mrs. Joe Smith and family" to make it more clear on who I am inviting.
2) add in "Mr. Joe Smith and guest" etc. to the beginning of the invitation wording.
3) Or will the "total # attending __ of ____" on the RSVP postcards be enough?

I'm sorry it is going to giveyou more work but I think it'll cause confusion if you leave it as is.  How many people you are actually inviting isn't something you want to leave up to interpretation.  If someone thinks you didn't invite them to bring a guest or their family, they may be offended.  You don't want people calling you to ask either. I'd redo the outer envelopes.

@$%&!!! Can i just give up inviting people and maybe I'll just party by myself at my weddng? Sounds good to me right about now.

If you can: add "and guest" or "and family" to the outer envelopes.

Or, just leave the outer envelopes and add inner envelopes.

It would be best to make it clear. 

Thanks ladies. I am going to add the specific people I'm addressing in the inside of the invitation at the top. It's the only part I haven't printed off yet so it won't cost me any extra time or money. I already put in some of the liners in the envelopes so I'm running out of time to re-do things.

These invitations have been the hardest thing to do so far! I was so tired last night working on the RSVP cards that I was going to put stamps on them--my 44 cent stamps! Luckily I just went to bed. I woke up this morning and realized that I can use 28 cent postcard stamps on them, hello!

My advice to other bees: buy your invites :)

I don't know if you already printed the invitations yet, but instead of printing the names on the invitations, you could also make a belly band around the invites and get fancy labels to print out their names on the band. I don't know how your invitations are, but that's what i did ( I had a similar issue) and received tons of compliments on how they looked.  Don't know if this helps or not...