CHEAP WEDDING INVITATIONSSITE

The greatest part about following etiquette's accurate way to do this is...there is no face-to-face confrontation and it is completely acceptable. Are you ready for this miracle answer to your prayers? It's the wedding invitation! A traditional wedding invitation has a double envelope. Some couples are sending their invitations in only one envelope unless ordering their invites through a traditional wedding invitation company (like the big books you see at the bridal store). The inside envelope is a very important piece especially when you are wanting to be selective on the guest list. Here's how you do it:Address the outer envelope to the head of the household or the primary person you are inviting to the wedding. If it is a couple address is as Mr. and Mrs. John Smith for example. On the inner envelope, don't be quite as formal. Write the first names of whom you are actually inviting to the wedding. So, if the Smith's have two children on the inner envelope you would only list their first names - John and Jane - and don't list the children at all. If you are sending the rustic wedding stationery

to an unmarried friend and you want to make sure she doesn't bring a date, address the outer envelope formally (Ms. Jane Smith) and on the inner envelope only list her name.Another way to be explicit about guests attending is to make it obvious you need an exact count on your RSVP card. If you are having a served dinner where menu selection is made on the RSVP, leave only two name lines for the person to select meals. Or, if you design your RSVP to help with the single friends without an additional guest, partially fill out their RSVP for them. List her name on the name line already. Instead of making your options on the RSVP as "Number Attending" and "Not Able to Attend" make the options into three lines. Use "Number Invited" and follow up with your "Attending" and "Unable to Attend" lines.By all traditional standards, this should work to inform your guest that additional people are not invited. Even those who don't know wedding etiquette should pick up on the hint. If your guest is adamant about bringing additional people, they will call either yourself or your parents. At that time, you can explain that you have limited seating and you really want them there to celebrate your special day. This should be explanation enough. It also never hurts to put the word out to your parents and closest friends that you are limiting the guest list.

Your parents often will field some of the calls from people wanting to know if they can bring additional people. Let them handle the explanation, you have plenty more to worry about.You may still get a person who is completely blind to your desire to not have an additional guest present. There really is nothing you can do without insulting the person. If you receive the RSVP back and it happens to be marked for 2, just let it be. You'll most likely ruin a friendship if you call and confront her that she was supposed to come alone. If you are not wanting the additional guest because he will create a scene once he is drinking, designate a good friend or relative to say something to her to watch his behavior.

Most likely it will all be okay.Wedding planning is stressful enough than worrying about your guest list. Use this simple, formal, etiquette correct way of limiting your guest list.