What information should be included and not included in the wedding invitations?

Wedding website that contains references to registries, among other things - yes, include, because the primary purpose of the website is not the registry. The registry is just one of many pieces of information provided.

Direct reference to registry itself? No!

In your case, the response card would usually have space to show how many people will attend, and how many of each type of plate. At the reception, you have to trust that people will ask for what they ordered on the RVSP card so the numbers work out. Otherwise, you could ask for plate preferences for each named individual on the card, if you have room. Or, collect plate info another way?

You don't need to include the menu as long as people have enough information to make their menu choices. So you could just ask chicken or beef, or you could list a fuller description so people who eat both can decide which they would like better.

The most common place to put the website is on the save-the-dates. Since you are also doing an accomodations card, that would also be an ideal (and I think pretty common) place to put it. I am putting it on the reception card (we aren't having an accomodations card). Speaking of, a reception card is something you can add to your invites. Alot of people put that information on the invite itself which is perfectly fine but I think it is considered more formal to have a seperate card.

Our RSVP card:

R.S.V.P.

The favour of a reply is requested before October 24th.

M_____________________________

[ ] accept with pleasure [ ] decline with regret

Please indicate the meal preference of each attending guest below:

Chicken Beef Fish

M__________________ [ ] [ ] [ ]

M__________________ [ ] [ ] [ ]

And there is no need to include a full menu, but if you would like to be more descriptive about the meal choices you can put 'Chicken Cordon Bleu' instead of just 'chicken', or 'Salmon filet' instead of just 'fish', etc.

Well, I have printed about the registry website on the “Save The Date” Card and told some of my friends and family members so that they can let the others know about it via mouth........But It’s also proper to print the website link on the invitation cards.......And yes I have seen in some invitations the menu card also but I don’t think so that you need to print the menu in the invitation card...

Number the rsvps!

Take your guest list and number the couples, then number the corresponding rsvp. A little pencil number on the back of the RSVP will help a lot if anyone forgets to write their name... AND it makes it easy to find them on your list if you are tracking them all in one location. You can just put them in numerical order as they show up.

How to Word an RSVP - Dinner choices

We look forward to celebrating with you!

Please respond by May 10, 2012

We have reserved ____ seats in your honor

__Accepts with pleasure

__Must decline with regret

Name ___________________

chicken / beef / vegetarian (circle one)

Name ___________________

chicken / beef / vegetarian (circle one)

Adult only reception

**use what you need, delete what you don't ***

Hey Date Twin

I agree with these lovely ladies.

I agree with Hayley, label the backs of those RSVPs! Had I not seen her comment on that before, I never would have thought of it and when you have dozens coming in, you need to know whos is whos. I didnt number mine. Instead I wrote the persons name on the back. Oddly enough some saw I did that and filled in the name of their guest (if i allowed them one) and it made it so much easier when it came to making the place cards!

Great information.......thanks! This will come in handy when I get to this planning stage. Much appreciated ladies.

The information that you need/don't need to include depends on your specific event needs. Many weddings do not require direction cards or other inserts, and some require much more detailed information, such as parking and cocktail hour details.

For the least stress possible, you can have each guest's names printed directly on the RSVP cards, with the blanks or checkboxes for the meal choices. This level of personalization can be done for a very reasonable cost with digital printing. Our packages begin as low as $1.50 per set, including the invite, rsvp and other inserts.

For your wedding website, you can include the link or even a QR code on the accommodations card, or a small insert card like a business card on matching paper stock.

We included our website on the hotel/directions card. I didn't want it on the invitation. It just said "For more information, please visit www.xxx" Our registry is on there, but so are hotels, directions, specific venue information, etc.

I agree w/ the others - a menu isn't needed at this point. If you'd like to print one out, it's only really necessary at the reception. And even then, that's only if you want. I've seen that go either way.

At one wedding I attended, we checked off our meal choice on the rsvp card, and the bride made little individual cards with our names on them and a picture of either a chicken or a cow, depending on our choice. It was really cute and made it easy for the servers.

Like these, Kerri? The catering/venue staff always appreciates the details . . .

Yes, exactly!

I loved them, and I'm a server part-time, so I was thinking how much the serving staff must have appreciated not having to ask everyone their choice- I'm sure it sped up the process.

We also provided a printed list with the count of each plate per table to the head caterer before the event. Serving plated meals to over 100 guests with a handful of servers can be a big challenge.

Table 1 - 2 Vegetarian, 3 Pork, 3 Chicken

Table 2 - 1 Pork, 4 Chicken, 3 Child plates, etc.