Wedding Invitations

Be aware that many people will be offended and decline the reception invites. Also the reception is where the bulk of the cost goes so you don't save money by not inviting people to ceremony.


However Emily Post does see it as ok oddly enough.
Call it a celebration of marriage of the reception only invites. Those guests are not attending the actual wedding.

I don't see anything wrong with this. Only the other way around (inviting people to the ceremony but not the reception) would be an issue.

Call it a celebration and only include the reception information on the invitation. Those invited to the ceremony should receive ceremony info on an additional enclosure card or separate invitation like you would do for a rehearsal dinner.

Here are some wording ideas: https://www.brides.com/story/reception-only-wedding-invitation-wording

I agree with the others- I don’t see anything wrong with this (if it was the other way around than it would be an issue). Do a separate invite.

Hmm it can be pretty awkward and uncomfortable when only some guests are invited to the ceremony. But it could certainly work if you're limiting the ceremony to a select number of people (such as immediate family only). I agree with Michelle that I would word these reception-only invites as "celebration of marriage" since these people won't be invited to your actual wedding.

I don't see an issue. Do sepeate invitations

I agree with everyone else. I don't think it's wrong to not want certain people at your ceremony, however be prepared for some people to be offended, regardless of if you're in the wrong or not. The easiest way to do this is to just send 2 different cards, one only to people attending the reception, and one to people attending both. We went through Magnet Street for our cards, and they came out perfectly, and weren't too expensive either: https://www.magnetstreet.com/shop/wedding-invitations

Make sure that you are careful when sending them out though, because worst case scenario is you send the wrong invitations to the wrong people.