Please help us with the wording:
We live in Las Vegas and are having our wedding here. Since most guests will be coming in from out of town, we want to have events Friday through Sunday to make it a full weekend of celebrating. Plus, we want all of our work friends who work weekends to have an opportunity to celebrate with us for at least one of the events, hopefully.
We are having our ceremony and a full reception Saturday night (dinner and open bar) , but would like to have a dinner at a restaurant Friday night (not rehearsal dinner) and then a brunch on Sunday.
(Friday and Sunday's meals wil be paid for by the guest, but we don't know how to say this without sounding tacky)
We want to notify people ahead of time on a card we're putting in the invitation so that maybe this will help them budget.
Can we say something like:
Friday night dinner at __________-order from menu
Saturday ceremony and reception at ________________ - our treat
Sunday bruch and bottomless mimosas at _____________ - order from menu
(I'll make it sound MUCH nicer than this, but you get the idea)