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You know how one little thing can cause a chain reaction and affect more than expected? Yeah, we were hit with one of those little things last week.

If you remember, we picked a possible date for our home party in June based on the tentative Cubs schedule a few months ago and now that the official schedule is confirmed, we know that our date is available. Weeeeeeee! It had to be on a non-Cubs game day, otherwise it would be pure mayhem.

Addie, our contact at Vines sent me the official contract. I looked it over… 3 hour party, check! $5,000 minimum, check! Our date we picked in June, check! Everything looked good, so I signed it and sent it right back.

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Simple enough, right? Ha, you know nothing ever goes that smoothly by now!

Mr. N and I organized our guest list and sent out emails for addresses so we’d be ready to send out invitations when the time comes. Everything was going swimmingly until we got an email back that we weren’t expecting. One of our guests is getting married. In Maryland. On our confirmed, contracted date. Normally that wouldn’t be a big problem because hey, not everyone is going to make it to our party, I’m sure. In this instance however, he is friends with a dozen of Mr. N’s closest friends and is taking them with him. Hmph.

Initially, Mr. N didn’t want to do anything about it, but I knew he was sad knowing that certain people that he is really close to couldn’t be there. Me, being the rational, calm, collected, fair Libra that I am (ha!), suggested we look into changing our date so all of his friends would be able to make it. We couldn’t exactly expect the friend to change his wedding date for our little ole party, now could we? I convinced Mr. N that we should at least find out if it’s an option, so I sent Addie an email explaining the situation, and I let her know it wasn’t a huge deal if we were locked into our original date. Luckily, she was willing to accommodate us, so we moved our date up. Easy peasy! So now, my friends, our party is 2 weeks sooner than expected and hooray, we’re gettin’ all our peeps together…

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But then, like any good chain reaction would have it, I realized the wording on our invitations might sound a little weird considering we need to send them out earlier and our guests will be getting them long before we’re married. Those frickin’ invitations. There will be a post coming soon about the latest saga on those. Anywho, because of the timing, I didn’t think it sounded right to have them say “Jaime and Scott tied the knot! Come celebrate our marriage with us” since we won’t be married yet by the time they go out. So I wanted to change it to “Jaime and Scott are tying the knot! Come celebrate our marriage with us”. But then I started thinking people may think they are being invited to the wedding and show up at our cocktail party expecting a little more than free drinks.

So I’m coming to you… how should I reword the invitations so people understand that we are getting married ahead of time, and this is an invitation to the home party only, all the while keeping it short and sweet? Obviously most of our guests will know this, but there are a few people (old family friends, relatives we don’t talk to often, our parents’ guests, etc.) that may not. Please help me end the chapter of our home party invitations so we can get them ordered and out of our hands!