Invitation question

Well it's almost time to send out the invitations for our 2/16 wedding. I was thinking of sending them out on December 16th. My maid of honor told me last night to send them December 1st before the Christmas card rush. What do you girls think? How do you address an invitation to a family with three kids. Stephen's brother has three kids we want them all invited. Do we send them each a seperate invitation? Two of the kids are under 18 but they all still live at home. Help?

My opinion

Don`t hesitate to send your invitations out a little earlier. It really might be a good idea. Besides the Christmas card rush, people could accidently mix up the invitations with all the cards coming in. For our late September wedding, I moved up sending out our invitations by a couple of weeks to avoid the postal rate hike that went into affect in August. Our invitations went out at the end of July. Even if you mail the invitations early, you will get those who respond right away, but don`t be surprised if many people end up waiting til the last minute anyway. That`s what happened to us. We got 1/3 of our responses (from 110 invitations) in the last couple of days! As for how to address to a family, this might not be the 'proper' thing to do, but we did it like this: Outer Envelope: Mr. & Mrs. John Smith & Family Inner Envelope: John & Karen John, Melissa & Michael You may want to consider sending each of the kids their own invitations. After we sent ours to my brother`s family, I thought it would have been cute had we sent my niece and nephew their own. She`s 4 1/2 and he`s 1 1/2. At the wedding, we did make individual place cards for them. They were our flowergirl and ringbearer, and I just felt better doing that.

My opinion

I agree with Kel. Send them out earlier so they don't get mixed up. As for the kids, I think you should have 1 invite that addresses the whole family except for any children over 18. He/she should get his own.

Reasonable cost for invitations???

I went looking for the first time yesterday and I have no idea what a good price would be..........

Like everything - varies a lot!

Letterpress invites can be as much as $20/set or you can get simple one for less than $2. Look around on the net to see what you like and get an idea of prices. Here is a list of sites listed in appropriate price order: www.rexcraft.com www.einvite.com www.phubie.com www.gaddisdesign.com www.annagriffin.com www.demilodesign.com www.claudiacalhoun.com There are a ton of sites out there so you will have lots of choices.

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Stef ,whenever I think I know what I want, you give me new ideas!!!

Opinion on invites for children

I think you should send an invitation to the family with the children's names on the inner envelope. I also think that since these are you fiance's siblings (if I understood you correctly), they should each receive a hand delivered invitation. This way, each has a keepsake. I am doing my invites now and this is what I am doing. My wedding is Feb. 17 but I have a lot of people from other countries that I have to get invites out to and I want to make sure that they don't get held up by the Christmas mail. Good luck.