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    LpCutiPie    July 3, 2010   Central Florida

    FH and I are getting married in a private ceremony with a informal reception that evening. I'm having problems with invitation wording for the reception only invations. I want to use some sort of quote on the invitation but am not sure how I feel about this one. Any suggestions or changes I should make?

     

    Once in a while,
    right in the middle of an ordinary life,
    love gives us a fairytale.

    We, Mr Lp and Ms Lp
    will be married in a private wedding ceremony
    on July 3, 2010
    You are joyfully invited to an
    informal outdoor wedding celebration
    after the wedding at 2:00
    Park Name
    Tarpon Springs, Florida

     
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    ebs1123    July 9, 2010   Omaha NE

    I think you could make the wording a bit more clear, but I really like the quote you have! If you just off-set it a bit, so it was obviously not part of the invite text, I think it'll look really pretty.   I would change a few things about the actual inviting though

    Just use your names, no "we" before them, and remove the word "wedding" from line 2 (it's obvious). You could also think about moving the date down, after the actual inviting.  "Mr & Ms will be married in a private ceremony. You are joyfully invited.... on July 3 at 2pm"  Just a thought.

     
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    prairiegrl    June 12, 2010   Massachusetts

    I like the quote too!  I wonder if the wording "wedding celebration" doesn't potentially imply that it's the wedding itself that people are being invited to (where private = you and your 20 closest friends and family).  If you avoid this if you just dropped "wedding", I think, so that it just said "You are joyfully invited to an informal outdoor celebration..."

     
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    LpCutiPie    July 3, 2010   Central Florida

    edited due to layout problems...

     
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    JoeBeth12    June 12, 2010  

    What if you DON'T put what they're NOT invited to at the top and put what they ARE higher up, so you'd be leading with the lead & swapping it a bit like this:

                                          Poem

               You are joyfully invited to the wedding celebration of

                                      Name

                                            and

                                                    Name

                       on the third of July, two thousand and ten

                              at two o'clock in the afternoon

                       following their private wedding ceremony

                                          Park Name

                                     Tarpon Spring, Florida

    Casual Attire

       

    oh -- could considering losing the second "wedding" before celebration/// I'm not crazy about inviting guests to a marraige, I mean, a marriage is a relationship!         

     

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