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Wedding information for my guests (long post)

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Charlene, on June 14, 2021 at 11:09 AM

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Good morning Bride Sisters!! I need some feedback. It's come to my attention that a great majority of my guests have never been to a wedding before. I was BOMBARDED with a million plus questions. Instead of sending out normal Save the dates I decided to do what people are calling 'Informational Save the dates'
Please let me know if I am missing anything, should I take something out?
SN: I do have a website but no one goes on it🤦🏾‍♀️
(NOT SURE WHAT THE GREETING WILL BE YET)
As some of you may know Anthony and I booked ANOTHER venue and are pleased to announce this to our family. I decided to do a pre informational Save the Date due to the change of venue. We also decided to do things more privately instead of posting on social media. Last time our inboxes was swarmed with "I hope I'm invited" and countless inquiries about the wedding. We would love to invite everyone but prices can range from $130pp to $360pp and we simply cannot afford a 200+p wedding. It has also come to our attention that a few of our guests have never been to a wedding before so this information may be useful. We hope you can make our special day and remember to SAVE THE DATE❤
New Date: Saturday May-28th-2022
Invitations & Plus ones: Due to limited capacity and Covid19 safety reasons we can not extend a plus one to all of our invitees. We are limiting our plus ones to married, engaged,long term couples and people we approved to bring a friend. If your invitation only has your name on it, you do not have a plus one. I can guarantee you know everyone if not everyone at the wedding so you will not feel alone. You can expect to receive your invitation between the months of January-March. RSVP is a must. As stated above we are paying Per Person, which means if you do not rsvp by the date given on your invitation, your spot will unfortunately be given to someone else. We do not get refunded for the people that do not show up and would hate to lose any money. We will not accept any late rsvps. If you do not receive your invitation by March 1st, PLEASE call/ text me asap so I can send one via FedEx or UPS.
Location : Smithtown New York
Venue: TBA
About the Location. There is NO public transportation around. The only way to the venue is via a car. For my out of towners and guests who may need a hotel for the night, the venue is at least 20 minutes away from the hotel/train. If you take an uber to the venue you will need to call one at LEAST 20 minutes before the reception is over, it is a 20 minute drive for them to get to us and they'll most likely be by the hotel or train area. If you choose to drive to the wedding please keep in mind it is 5hrs of premium open bar and we do not want our guests drinking and driving. If you want to ensure you will get an uber (wedding is over at 12am) you can schedule a car to pick you up earlier in the day so you don't have to worry about a cab being available.
Valet Parking: Valet parking is prepaid, please take advantage of it.
Hotel blocks: What are hotel blocks? Hotel blocks are rooms the bride reserves for her out of town guests or family members at a discount. I highly recommend my Brooklyn guests take advantage, you do not want to make an hour and a half long trip home messed up. I highly suggest getting a room for the night. For my out of towners, I assume you will need a room. Please let me know via text or Facebook whether or not you will need a room, the wedding is on Memorial weekend and the hotels may fill up fast.
Registry/gifts: Due to our limited space, we do not have the room to hold 100+ gifts from our guests. If you would like to get us a wedding gift, we are kindly requesting monetary gifts.
Attire: Black tie, WE want our guest to get into the mood of our Midnight Romance theme and dress the part. We will be requesting all our guests to get decked out in their finest attire. Gowns for the ladies and suits for the gentleman.
SN: For the ladies, PLEASE no white, Ivory or cream like colors.
Ceremony Start time 6:30pm SHARP! We kindly ask all our guests to arrive atleat 45min-1hr before the start time of the ceremony. (Champagne and fruits will be served for our early arriving guests.)
NOTE: Anthony and I will be saying our own vows, we kindly ask that you not arrive after 6:30. Once we begin our vows, if you're not seated our wedding planner will kindly ask you to wait in the cocktail space until the ceremony is over. This is the most important part of our day and we do not want to be interrupted by guests who arrive late.
Cocktail hour: Cocktail hour is normally when the bride, groom and their wedding party take a bulk of their pictures. You most likely will not see us or anyone from the wedding party until the reception.
Reception: The reception is where the real fun begins (so bring your dancing shoes). The night will be filled with a mixture of 80s and 90s rnb classics (our fav), some early 2000 favorites, finished off with " today's music". At 9pm we will change the tune from censored music to uncensored. This means you will hear the N word, Bs and Ho&$, Fs and U's, and itches ain't spit 😅😅. We will also being doing such dances as "Twerking" and or booty shaking🤣🤣🤣. If you do not wish to hear such music or participate in such a dance we definitely understand your early departure. We also strongly suggested you have your ride available to pick you up at 8:30 or 9pm sharp, the the DJ will be instructed to change the music at exactly 9pm to Waka Flocka's "No Hands". MOST OF YALL KNOW THE BEGINNING TO THAT SONG😜😜😜😜.The reception is over at 12AM. As stated above I highly suggest having your cab arrive no later then 12:30, we may want to get some final pictures in.

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Charlene · on June 14, 2021 at 12:27 PM
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Thank you for your feedback, I did put this on my website and although a great majority are in there early to mid 30s, only 40 out of 150 went to the website🤦🏾‍♀️. After reading everyone's comments. I will most likely only send this to the people I KNOW need the information.
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Jessi · on June 14, 2021 at 12:32 PM
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I think that's a good way to do it! I know my biggest concern for our wedding is that people will consider "dressy casual" to mean they are able to wear jeans, which I'd really prefer they didn't. So I plan on casually slipping that in conversation to people who I know would probably wear them.
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Charlene · on June 14, 2021 at 12:38 PM
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Thank you to everyone for all of your feedback, it was GREATLY APPRECIATED! I WILL BE REMOVING THE COST RANGE AS WELL AS SHORTEN THE WHOLE THING. But I will send it ONLY to the people I feel it necessary to have. This was originally supposed to be a Facebook private post which is why I felt the need to let them know why we're having a smaller event. I will most likely send this out as a letter rather then a S.T.D. Thank you all for your feedback, I will not be responding to anymore comments. HAPPY WEDDING PLANNING!
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