Wedding Invitations for Ceremony and Reception on different days.

View quoted message This is a great suggestion Meaghan. Thanks!

An alternative to the above suggestions may be to use wording inviting guests to a reception celebrating your recent marriage and include an insert regarding the ceremony and inviting them to attend if they like. You may find that many can't commit to both days and this permits them to only attend the reception if that is all they can do. Of course, that will only work if you are ok with guests attending the reception and not the ceremony.
I think this wording would clarify what was happening for me and let me know that if I can't make it to the Friday ceremony, I'm still welcome to attend the reception (which would normally not be appropriate).

View quoted message Thanks Ashley.
Appreciate you taking the time to respond.

View quoted message Hi Allison.
Thanks for replying. Love the suggestion. Really appreciate it.

View quoted message Hi Vinod.
Thanks for your suggestion. I will definitely look into the trifold option.

View quoted message Hi Amelia.
Thanks for the suggestion. I appreciate it.

I would have one paragraph with all the ceremony info and then another paragraph with all reception info and i would make sure to bold or highlight the two different dates

I would have a reception card, since most invitation templates do say "reception to follow"

The card could start off with: Our reception will be held on {insert date} and then continue on with those details. If you were having your ceremony and reception on the same day, but different locations, the reception card would be used to tell guests the location and details of the reception, in your case it would be the following day.

You could also see if you can change the reception to follow text in vista print templates. Most templates you can change most/all the text so you could say "Reception to follow on Saturday [your reception date].

Either way, I'd add a reception card so guest have that information.

Creating 2 different invitations to indicate your ceremony and reception separately does help for guests to know what date you have your events. This creates less confusion rather than going the same route of one invitation.

Suggestion to make is look into trifold invitation that allows you have all your information on it and easier so that you pay one price. I would have done that instead of making 2 cards.

I think you could put "Ceremony on Friday at " and "Reception on Saturday at" as long as you put all the details clearly you should be fine. Finding a template on sites like Vistaprint might be a bit harder but they probably exist.


If you can't find a good template on one invite, make an insert with details about the reception to go with the ceremony invitation. This would be great if you're inviting some people to one and not the other too.