My fiance and I are getting married in his home country (which is about halfway around the world from the US) in March. We are having a reception in the US in May.
I sent out "Save the Dates" with both dates in December to my guests. We sent out Save the Dates for his friends in the US...today. He took forever to get his addresses, and since Save the Dates aren't done in his culture he wasn't as into it as me. He had emailed all the friends a couple weeks earlier with the date when he requested their addresses. Anyway, water under the bridge. They're in the mailbox and off to hang out on refrigerators for the next few months!
Now we get to the invitation problem. Since almost all of his family and friends in his home country live in the city where we are having the wedding and thus don't need super advance notice, his parents just had the invitations printed last week. They are sending me a few invitations, which should be here in about a week.
It was important to us that everyone be invited to both events, even recognizing that most wouldn't travel halfway around the world. At this point I have about 10 people coming from my side. I figure if anyone did have an interest in coming to the overseas wedding, they would have let us know by now. However...we haven't sent formal invitations to anyone in the US for the overseas wedding.
Here is my plan. I still want to send all of my guests invitations to the overseas wedding. Most of this will be done by email or Facebook. Anyone who doesn't have email or Facebook (i.e. anyone over age of 70) will get a physical invitation. For everyone, we will include a note that says something like:
"We know the distance is great and we understand if you can't be there in person, but we hope you will send your thoughts and blessings to us on our wedding day. We look forward to celebrating with you closer to home in May!"
So my question for Weddit: how would you interpret this? I hope that everyone would interpret it as a nice way to make them feel included in all of our events. I certainly don't want anyone to be offended though, so please let me know if you would find it strange or insulting, and let me know if there's a better way to do it. Invitations to the US reception will be fairly normal and go out in late March or so.
Submitted February 07, 2015 at 03:31AM by lilayamor http://ift.tt/1EMJmK0 weddingplanning
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