Invite wording help

Is there a reason why you plan to have separate invitations? That will be confusing for guests, because they do often talk to each other and it won’t be a good look for you if relative/friend A gets an invite to the all day ceremony and reception and relative/friend B gets a reception only invite in the case maybe they were planning to carpool.


Also older guests are much more intelligent than they are ever given credit for. A major consensus seems to be that they have zero cognitive skills and need their hands held the entire time which is not true for reality. They don’t need hands held to locate hotels and rental cars because it’s logical to need them, and listing them is a newer trend where couples feel everything has to be spelled out to the nth degree and doesn’t allow room for guests to think on their own.
Websites are a newer thing that some circles use as their sole form of communication instead of any paper invites and they don’t want to talk to each other to share information. Other circles don’t use websites at all for weddings because they feel that it infringes on the formality of the event. Some people don’t use them because a cousin or friend may have had a negative experience using one with the same group of guests.
Details cards are still used in many social circles instead of a website, with zero negative issues at all. What is included is directions (if a separate card is not included) to the venue, and the starting time of the reception if it held at a different venue than the ceremony. That covers the basics. Hotel block information is a newer detail that not everyone includes. Rsvp information is on its own separate card to be mailed back with a stamp on the envelope.
When in doubt, ask parents and grandparents for help. For decades , people knew how to arrange their own hotels (and other travel/transportation) on their own. Unless you are competing with a Taylor Swift concert or ComicCon, people can typically find a hotel within their budget on their own with no issues. Registry information doesn’t belong anywhere on the save the date or invitation. People will ask you and your parents where you are registered or they will do their own Google search at the local Target or Walmart registry.
As guests, we prefer to mail the card back and it’s easier and faster to mark the card and put it in the next day’s outgoing mail. Our families and social circles are the same. If there was an online only option, then you don’t need to include a stamp but make sure that you are accepting verbal and phone rsvps in addition. Not everyone finds QR codes easy to use, even among the younger crowd. Don’t isolate and punish someone because the online only option is inconvenient for them.