Help with Invitations ! Please

Girls,

I need to finalize my invite order before my order is processed and I am having issues with the capitalization .. Does this look right in terms of capitalization should it read 'two thousand and nine' or 'Two thousand and nine' ?? Also for the reception card, cant figure out what should be capped?

Thanks so much in advance!!!

Mr. and Mrs. John Smith
and
Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Cava
request the honour of your presence
at the marriage of their children
Diana Jacqueline
and
Alfonso Nicholas
on Sunday, the twenty-third of August
two thousand and nine
at two o'clock in the afternoon
St. Sarkis Armenian Apostolic Church
38-65 234th Street
Douglaston, New York




Cocktail Hour at half past five
Reception immediately following
Venetian Yacht Club
Village of Babylon, New York
Black Tie invited

Everything looks good to me

We are in the middle of ordering our invitations. The woman who helped us actually wrote out the whole thing.

Basically, let the person you are ordering them with help you. Even after we made the proff, we STILL found simple mistakes like capitalization and hyphens.

A lot of people don't like 'two thousand AND nine' because that reads like a decimal in math. Fwiw, that's what we did and I don't think anyone would ever pick up on it, aside from fellow wedding planners. We capitalized the T in two.

Technically, you don't need to put 'in the afternoon' after two o'clock, because no one would have a 2am ceremony. However, I like how it looks...it seems to balance it out more.

For the time of your reception, it should be 'half after five' instead of 'half past'. The latter is traditionally used only for funerals.

Black tie invited? Do you mean attire?

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Posted by deeva007

Girls,

I need to finalize my invite order before my order is processed and I am having issues with the capitalization .. Does this look right in terms of capitalization should it read 'two thousand and nine' or 'Two thousand and nine' ?? Also for the reception card, cant figure out what should be capped?

Thanks so much in advance!!!

Mr. and Mrs. John Smith
and
Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Cava
request the honour of your presence
at the marriage of their children
Diana Jacqueline
and
Alfonso Nicholas
on Sunday, the twenty-third of August
two thousand and nine
at two o'clock in the afternoon
St. Sarkis Armenian Apostolic Church
38-65 234th Street
Douglaston, New York




Cocktail Hour at half past five
Reception immediately following
Venetian Yacht Club
Village of Babylon, New York
Black Tie invited

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i would remove the 'on' before sunday

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Posted by JAAMS

It looks good to me except for 'Black tie invited'-- is that just a way of saying black tie affair? Or no/

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Just another way of saying black tie optional
does Black Tie Optional sound better?

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Posted by deeva007

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Posted by JAAMS

It looks good to me except for 'Black tie invited'-- is that just a way of saying black tie affair? Or no/

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Just another way of saying black tie optional
does Black Tie Optional sound better?

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Definitely go with Optional. It's much more common. :)

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Posted by sucrets4

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Posted by deeva007

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Posted by JAAMS

It looks good to me except for 'Black tie invited'-- is that just a way of saying black tie affair? Or no/

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Just another way of saying black tie optional
does Black Tie Optional sound better?

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Definitely go with Optional. It's much more common. :)

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ITA.. i didn't even know what 'black tie invited' meant, optional is more popular.