Weddingbee boards

They look great!  I would have thrown my laptop if I had to deal with Photoshop or Illustrator as long as you must have!

Love them!  especially all the info on the reception card

I think you've done a FANTASTIC JOB with these! I also really like the design you selected.

Here are a few suggestions/recommended changes for you to consider:

I love that you selected an-all-small-cap font for the majority of your text and that you have contrasted that with a script font.  However, I think you may like the effect better if you push each of those choices just a little more.  What I mean is this:  Is there another all-small-cap font that is not quite as dark or so ornate?  If so, you may want to try it.  (If you have the current small-cap font bolded right now, I would remove the bold, and that, in an of itself, may solve the issue I'm noticing.  I would say the opposite for the script font.  Is there one that is a little more "open" looking?  Otherwise, I think you made great choices!

The year should be TWO THOUSAND TWELVE (without the "and")

I would remove the RSVP letters.  Everyone will know exactly what that card means, and you really do not need "RSVP" and "Kindly Respond ..." It's not as reduntant as RSVP and "Please Respond," but it is redundant.  To compensate for their not being a word in script on the reply card, I would recommend making the M prior to the line a bit larger and/or in bold text to achieve the same effect.

This is obviously your choice, but I just wanted to note that I was counseled by the etiquette experts to NOT use language such as "accepts with pleasure" and "declines with regret," because people do not like when others attempt to attribute emotions to them.  I was advised to use simply, "____ will attend" and "____ unable to attend."  To be honest, I really do think your wording sounds nicer. However, I'm just passing along the advice I received from the etiquette experts I consulted.

The last recommendation involves something that I know is often hotly debated on WB, and that is how to obtain from your guests the number of people from that invitation who are planning to attend your wedding.  I was advised to use only what I had noted above -- the M________________ and the two lines involving whether or not those invited will attend or are unable to attend.  My guests all (well, all but one -- who forgot to write her name!!) properly concluded that they should write their names on the blank line and then check the corresponding line, and I was easily able to tell that, for example, "Mr. and Mrs. John Smith" WILL attend or "Jane Doe" was attending but her spouse was not by the fact that she only wrote her name on the line.  (However, I should note that I did use inner envelopes, which Miss Manners and others HIGHLY recommend, and they absolutely did work to ensure that I did not have anyone attempt to bring more guests than the number of people to whom I specifically addressed the invitation.)

So, those are my thoughts. Nice work! :)

ETA:  I just went back to see what others posted while I was writing the above novel, lol, and I see that others already pointed out the issue of the "and." 

One other thing I will add is that you were absolutely correct to put your FI's last name and not also include yours.  You would only use yours if it differs from your parents' last name.

@coffeegal85:  I actually used a similar approach for my invitations, and I've been searching to find the names of the fonts for you. I absolutely loved them, but I know that not all software packages would have them, since I had to do my menus and rehearsal dinner invitations using fonts that were as close as we could get to the ones used on my wedding invitation suite. Unfortunately, a lot of my wedding-planning paperwork is still packed away from my move, and I cannot find it.  However, I do think you're right. It may just be the larger initial caps in the small-cap format.  You may want to just try it with the small-cap font in lower case mode so that all of the caps are the same point size, just to see if you think it looks cleaner to you.

Just to give you an idea of what I was suggesting, I am posting a pick of the Crane online sample invitation showing the fonts that I used.  Unfortunately, the ribbon is in the way of the script font.  There are some bees who are graphic designers, and I'm sure some of them could help identify the fonts. I'm pretty sure one of them begins with an R. (Not that that really narrows it down, LOL!)

Regarding the wording about the adults-only reception, technically, etiquette states that you should never refer to who is NOT being invited to an event but only to those who are being invited.  For that reason, your current wording is much more polite than the alternative you suggested. However, the challenge I forsee with your current wording asking for number of adults attending is that, perhaps, some guests still may think that they still are able to bring their children, but that you don't really need to know how many kids are attending. 

Of course, you and your FI and your families certainly have the right to choose however you prefer to handle this situation.  However, my recommendation to you would be to NOT invite children to the ceremony if you do not also want to have them at the reception. From an etiquette perspective -- as well as a practical one, this really is the cleanest manner in which to manage your guest list and avoid any uninvited individuals.  Since you are using  inner envelopes (by the way, YAY! I'm thrilled to find someone else who still believes in them!), you will be able to very clearly indicate who in a particular household is being invited by writing their names on your inner envelopes.  By your doing that, parents of a family of five will clearly see that Mr. and Mrs. Smith are being invited but that their kids, Jack, Jillian, and Janie are not. And by not inviting them to the ceremony and then excluding them from the reception, Mr. and Mrs. Smith can just get a sitter for the entire evening and not have to figure out that they should be dropping the kids off at the grandparents between the ceremony and the reception.

One final observation that I made after I posted my other set of comments.  Since you are having a formal invitation suite, and your reception includes dinner and dancing, you may want to consider having a separate card for the reception and another for the information about accommodations.  That's what I did, and it made both sets of information stand out more.  However, you may be trying to combine them for other reasons (cost, environmental concerns, etc.), so you may not be interested in doing that. However, I just thought I would mention that.

Whatever you decide about all of these details, I hope you have a wonderful wedding!