Wedding Announcements?

[pghloveswdw512]

I'm an Escape bride, so many of our family and friends were not invited to the actual ceremony and brunch reception at WDW. My mom and I were thinking of sending wedding announcements to all of those people to let them know we were thinking of them. I originally wanted that announcement to include the invitation to the big reception at home, but that's 4 months later. It will have to be an announcement in January and an invitation to the reception a couple months later.

Did anybody send something like this? I saw a cute one in the Invitations thread, but I'm wondering if there are any others?

 

[girli565]

My mom was asking me about this once I decided on a small Wishes Wedding because we were going to be very selective in who we invited. I told her that if she wanted to send announcements that was a very nice idea, we plan on sending them while at Disney so they will receive them at the same time as our actual wedding.

 

[Petals & Pixie Dust]

DF's mom brought this up when we first were engaged. I've been looking and haven't found anything super specific. I did find some at Hallmark that were pretty cute and even though they were for elopements they could be made to work. Really all it is is wording on invitation like cardstock/design that says "hey we got hitch." The difficult part is figuring out how to word it in such a way that you're saying "hey we got hitched at disney and you weren't invited." I'm stumbling on that one...

 

[lurkyloo]

We sent combination wedding announcements/at-home reception invites, but our reception was two months after the wedding. I don't think four months would be too early for you to send them, but maybe you just won't have the details set by then?

We mailed the announcements from Disney the day after the wedding. It was exciting!

Technically, it's an etiquette no-no to combine the announcement and the invite. But I thought simultaneously inviting them to the reception might soften the blow of discovering they were not invited to the wedding. Also, I figured that when people saw how far away we got married, they'd breathe a sigh of relief that we didn't make them come to our wedding!

Here's how we worded it:

 

[hiwaygal]

Our announcements read something like this:

We went away for a much needed vacation and tied the knot in a MAGICAL location.

Denise and Greg were married September 20, 2005 at Walt Disney World's Sea Breeze Point.

Although we couldn't have you there in person, because you have shared in our lives by your friendship and love, you were with us on our special day.



You can find some other ideas here: http://www.invitationconsultants.com/samplewording.aspx?p_subcategory=196

 

[Petals & Pixie Dust]

Carrie & Denise...that helps a ton! Thanks!

 

[pghloveswdw512]

We sent combination wedding announcements/at-home reception invites, but our reception was two months after the wedding. I don't think four months would be too early for you to send them, but maybe you just won't have the details set by then?

We mailed the announcements from Disney the day after the wedding. It was exciting!

Technically, it's an etiquette no-no to combine the announcement and the invite. But I thought simultaneously inviting them to the reception might soften the blow of discovering they were not invited to the wedding. Also, I figured that when people saw how far away we got married, they'd breathe a sigh of relief that we didn't make them come to our wedding!

Here's how we worded it:

That's what I thought too! My mom was a little more reluctant about doing the invite that early, but I thought it would soften the blow too.

Our announcements read something like this:

We went away for a much needed vacation and tied the knot in a MAGICAL location.

Denise and Greg were married September 20, 2005 at Walt Disney World's Sea Breeze Point.

Although we couldn't have you there in person, because you have shared in our lives by your friendship and love, you were with us on our special day.



You can find some other ideas here: http://www.invitationconsultants.com/samplewording.aspx?p_subcategory=196

I love the wording! I'm stealing it if that's okay! I saw the examples on Invitation Consultants this morning, but I love the addition of MAGICAL. It is Disney after all!

Thanks, ladies!