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Alimm729 Posted: Jul 22, 2014 09:39 PM+

Alimm729 MEMBER SINCE: 8/13 TOTAL POSTS : 1781 WEDDING DATE: Oct 25, 2014

Posted: Jul 22, 2014 09:39 PM

Addressing Envelopes

We're not using an inner envelope, so when The Knot etiquette says not to address children on the outer envelope but on the inner envelope, what to do? For FH's Family - his brother and sisters are young, and are obvi invited. Soooo... would it go:

Mr. & Mrs. Smith
kid name, kid name, kid name
address
address

or

The Smith Family
address
address

I know they know the kids are invited. But. I just want to make sure there's no question about it so I don't offend anyone.

msj288 Posted: Jul 22, 2014 09:57 PM+

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Posted: Jul 22, 2014 09:57 PM

Addressing Envelopes

We did 'the smith family'. For the RSVP cards we had 'we have reserved blank seats in your honor', and wrote down how many we allocated for them, which was obviously they're whole family lol This was so there was no confusion and I've gotten a few rsvps back from family abroad, and so far so good. :)

JaimeLin Posted: Jul 22, 2014 10:02 PM+

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Posted: Jul 22, 2014 10:02 PM

Addressing Envelopes

I did The Smith Family, address, adress

Deirdre-and-Joe Posted: Jul 22, 2014 10:50 PM+

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Posted: Jul 22, 2014 10:50 PM

Addressing Envelopes

I did Smith Family. However, I had enough left over that I handed his nieces their own invitation (the boys didn't care so much about having one to keep, lol)

coffeeisgreen Posted: Jul 23, 2014 12:47 AM+

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Posted: Jul 23, 2014 12:47 AM

Re: Addressing Envelopes

We did 'The Smith Family' since we didn't use an inner envelope either. If the kid in question is a teenager without a guest I did 'Mr & Mrs. Smith' and on the next line 'Amy Smith'.

ETA: Hey date twin, when are you mailing yours out?

Alimm729 Posted: Jul 23, 2014 08:43 AM+

Alimm729 MEMBER SINCE: 8/13 TOTAL POSTS : 1781 WEDDING DATE: Oct 25, 2014

Posted: Jul 23, 2014 08:43 AM

Re: Addressing Envelopes

Posted by coffeeisgreen

We did 'The Smith Family' since we didn't use an inner envelope either. If the kid in question is a teenager without a guest I did 'Mr & Mrs. Smith' and on the next line 'Amy Smith'.

ETA: Hey date twin, when are you mailing yours out?

This is exactly what I ended up doing.

I'm going to visit my MOH this weekend, and we're going to stuff them all, so I wanted to have the envelopes done. It was such a pain in the a$$, my printer would shut off and turn back on every third envelope or so, I was up until 12:30am. ANYWAY. It's done, they're gorgeous.

I'm planning on mailing them out around the 2nd week in August. I have an RSVP date of 9/25 so I don't want to give people toooooo much time between receiving them and the RSVP date to eventually lose the RSVP card and then I'll have to call them. lol.

haw4 Posted: Jul 23, 2014 02:34 PM+

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Posted: Jul 23, 2014 02:34 PM

Addressing Envelopes

I did it both ways based on the age of the kids.

Alimm729 Posted: Jul 23, 2014 04:54 PM+

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Posted: Jul 23, 2014 04:54 PM

Re: Addressing Envelopes

Posted by haw4

I did it both ways based on the age of the kids.

I kind of made up my own thing. It was so late and my printer was being crazy I was finally like, F tradition. It's my wedding, I do what I want!

haw4 Posted: Jul 23, 2014 07:24 PM+

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Posted: Jul 23, 2014 07:24 PM

Re: Addressing Envelopes

Posted by Alimm729

Posted by haw4

I did it both ways based on the age of the kids.

I kind of made up my own thing. It was so late and my printer was being crazy I was finally like, F tradition. It's my wedding, I do what I want!

Yup same here. I keep changing my fonts so every few people have a different font lol!

Alimm729 Posted: Jul 23, 2014 08:09 PM+

Alimm729 MEMBER SINCE: 8/13 TOTAL POSTS : 1781 WEDDING DATE: Oct 25, 2014

Posted: Jul 23, 2014 08:09 PM

Re: Addressing Envelopes

Posted by haw4

Posted by Alimm729

Posted by haw4

I did it both ways based on the age of the kids.

I kind of made up my own thing. It was so late and my printer was being crazy I was finally like, F tradition. It's my wedding, I do what I want!

Yup same here. I keep changing my fonts so every few people have a different font lol!

i'm glad it's not only me! LOL!

Futuremrskennedy Posted: Jul 23, 2014 08:51 PM+

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Posted: Jul 23, 2014 08:51 PM

Re: Addressing Envelopes

Posted by Alimm729

Posted by haw4

Posted by Alimm729

Posted by haw4

I did it both ways based on the age of the kids.

I kind of made up my own thing. It was so late and my printer was being crazy I was finally like, F tradition. It's my wedding, I do what I want!

Yup same here. I keep changing my fonts so every few people have a different font lol!

i'm glad it's not only me! LOL!

Please tell me you're close to being done.....I feel like you told me a few weeks ago you were doing your envelopes!

Alimm729 Posted: Jul 23, 2014 09:15 PM+

Alimm729 MEMBER SINCE: 8/13 TOTAL POSTS : 1781 WEDDING DATE: Oct 25, 2014

Posted: Jul 23, 2014 09:15 PM

Re: Addressing Envelopes

Posted by Futuremrskennedy

Posted by Alimm729

Posted by haw4

Posted by Alimm729

Posted by haw4

I did it both ways based on the age of the kids.

I kind of made up my own thing. It was so late and my printer was being crazy I was finally like, F tradition. It's my wedding, I do what I want!

Yup same here. I keep changing my fonts so every few people have a different font lol!

i'm glad it's not only me! LOL!

Please tell me you're close to being done.....I feel like you told me a few weeks ago you were doing your envelopes!

Yes!! I'm done, I'm done!! lol! I have a few stragglers that FH needs to get addresses for (lets see how long that takes!) but the bulk is done. I'm visiting my MOH this weekend and we're going to drink and stuff envelopes! lol!