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Miss Peppermint, LA/Palm Springs Age and Occupation: 23, Actress Fiance's Age and Occupation: 24, Web Producer Engagement Date: October 21, 2006 Wedding Date: December 2007 Blogging Since: July 2, 2007 Venue: historic estate overlooking the heart of Palm Springs About Me: I am a Southern California native who enjoys cooking, writing, travel and all things in the arts. Mr. Peppermint and I met in college and he proposed on our four year anniversary in one of our most special places, Joshua Tree National Park. We're having a destination wedding in Palms Springs that will incorporate tradition as well as reflect our personalities!
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Invitation Update…

August 13th, 2007 @ 11:34 am by Mrs. Peppermint

We picked an invitation!

I can happily say we decided to go with Oslo Press. Since the beginning they have been wonderful–answering any question I’ve had and sending my requested sample priority mail. Mr. Peppermint and I settled on “Burst” because of the bold look and the slightly Palm Springs lounge feel (as reader Anne K pointed out!). As a reminder, here is the Burst design:

Invitation Update... :  wedding invitations palm springs Burst S01

We’ll be modifying it by having it in Oak (it is shown in a darker wood - Walnut) with “Olive” colored text on the reply card and envelopes (as seen in their “Flair” invite, below).

Invitation Update... :  wedding invitations palm springs Flair S

Now our next hurdle is the wording! I’ve been consulting with Mama & Papa Peppermint (who are hosting) and here’s what we’ve come up with:

Mr. & Mrs. Peppermint (my parents)

Request the pleasure of your company

at the marriage of their daughter

Miss Peppermint

to

Mr. Peppermint

son of Mr. & Mrs. Peppermint (Mr. Pep’s parents)

Saturday, the —– of December

Two Thousand and Seven

at half after two o’clock in the afternoon

The O’Donnell House

— Tahquitz Canyon Way

Palm Springs, CA

Reception to Follow

We wanted something formal and wanted to get all the information out there. We also wanted to include Mr. Peppermint’s family. Are we missing anything?? Do I need to say “Reception to Follow”? Is this too wordy?? How are you wording your invites?

For the reply card we wanted something relatively simple:

Please reply by the Fifteenth of November

____________________________

___ Accepts

___ Declines

___ Filet of Beef ___ Vegetable Lasagna

I’m not sure if we might want something less cold than “accepts” or “declines”…I don’t want it to be too cutesy, but maybe ease up on the formality. Any suggestions? How did you word it?

Also, on a separate note, since we are considering hosting a welcome the night before and/or a breakfast the next day, should we include that on the RSVP or have another card with the invitation?? So much to think about!

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19 Responses to “Invitation Update…”

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Delinda

There beautiful…very classy…I wonder how much it would be to have them mailed…since they are made of wood…so its $1400 for 50 invites? I just found the cutest stamps..in coils of 100…
https://shop.usps.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?catalogId=10152&storeId=10001&categoryId=11831&productId=31307&langId=-1

 
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Sara

Our invitation wording is very similar. For the responses, how about “Accepts with pleasure” and “Declines with regrets?”

 
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My

I love the invites from Oslo….

 
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Brooke

I love these invites!!!!!!!

Just a note: the proper wording for the year is actually “two thousand seven” — there is no “and” (even though that’s how just about everyone writes it!). It’s a minor error, but now that I know that it’s wrong it drives me nuts whenever I see it ;-)

It is also not necessary to say “at” before the time.

 
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Aliya

I like “Joyfully Accepts” and “Regretfully Declines” for the response card.

 
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Sara

Ooh~ Yes, I like Aliya’s version better!

 
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aoedorothee

you can say Accepts with Joy/Decline with Regret.. oh I see someone already suggested a variation of that.

 
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davis2b

Beautiful choice. We worded our invites the exact same way. I like it because it included the FILs.

 
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jaxgirl

I put “dinner and dancing to follow” at the bottom. It seemed a little warmer and less stuffy. Our RSVP cards said “Will attend” and “Will not attend” and had them check off. Some people used the blank space to indicate how many are coming, too.

 
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Salley

We just received an invite to a wedding with an rsvp card that said “We’ll be there in spirit” for the no, which I thought was cute - might be too informal for your invites, though…

 
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Linda

those are soo cute!

 
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lzb

I received a sample and they are not only very beautiful buy extremly light!

Congrats it is a beautiful choice.

 
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Miss Onion

wow — those are stunning invitations. as for the wording — ours was very similar. you can check it out on my invitation post.

as for the RSVP we went with “accept with pleasure,” or “decline with regret.” hth!

 
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Anne K

Like I said before, those invites are gorgeous! I’m so envious.

For my RSVP cards, I used
“Can’t wait to wine & dine with you!”
“Sorry we have a previous engagement”.

 
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jessi

for the brunch card, i did a seperate one (saw in on kenzie kate) ;) and it says “come join us for a farewell brunch on blah blah….”

 
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AmandaB

we did “___ persons will attend” which made it a little clearer if people were bringing a date or not.

Our wording was (we’re footing most of this)
“The honor of your presence is requested at the wedding of BRIDE, daughter of Mr & Mrs to GROOM, son of Mr & Mrs”

A the bottom we said
“Reception to follow at 6 o’clock at [RECEPTION SITE]“

 
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kandaceandjason

Something to think about that I read just this last week (just printed my own paper elements!):

Watch your subject-verb agreement. If you leave a line blank to fill in names, then “accepts with pleasure” only agrees with a single name (Kandace and Jason accepts with pleasure is incorrect.)

Because of this, we put “will attend with pleasure” and “must decline with regret.” I was an English minor, so verb tense and word usage always bother me when done improperly. HTH!

 
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kandaceandjason

Oh I forgot to add that on the line where they fill in their names we put the M before it (M____) because we wanted to make sure people knew it was for writing their names in and not just a decorative separator :)

 
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mrikagurl

You do not need to put “reception to follow”! This is redundant to me. My wording was “will be there to celebrate/cannot be there to celebrate”.

 

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Miss Peppermint, LA/Palm Springs Age and Occupation: 23, Actress Fiance's Age and Occupation: 24, Web Producer Engagement Date: October 21, 2006 Wedding Date: December 2007 Blogging Since: July 2, 2007 Venue: historic estate overlooking the heart of Palm Springs About Me: I am a Southern California native who enjoys cooking, writing, travel and all things in the arts. Mr. Peppermint and I met in college and he proposed on our four year anniversary in one of our most special places, Joshua Tree National Park. We're having a destination wedding in Palms Springs that will incorporate tradition as well as reflect our personalities!

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