Saturday Night Invites

There are many different components to our wedding weekend, and at some point we realized that we would have to let people know about it! Friday night we decided to just have our close family members and rely on our parents word of mouth and email to disseminate the information. Saturday night, however, is a little more far reaching than that, and we decided to send invites. The Saturday night dinner is going to be thrown by the FIL Hermit Crabs, so the invites came from them.

We decided to use Vistaprint this time, and I can say that I am very happy with the way they turned out. For what we needed and wanted, it was perfect. The cards and envelopes were all of a good quality, and the printing looked really nice. Not too mention that it was super easy and quick to do, and the price was right. Without further ado, our invites! (All pictures are personal photos - sorry for the white out!)

The whole set

The envelopes - we used clear printer labels for the addresses

Our invite - simple, pretty, and to the point!

Info on the back, to not clutter the front, and included with the cost

And yes, I finally got to use my beloved king and queens!

I have to tell you actually, Mr. Hermit Crab and I totally had a moment when we were assemblying. He knows about my "moment" that I had in the post office, and has made fun of me. Well, he picked up these guys, and goes, "hm, these are really cool. I guess I understand what you were talking about." Score!

Easy peasy and now we'll actually have guests on Saturday night!

How did you relay information about additional wedding events?

Wedding Weekend: Saturday night

Now that you've seen how we're kicking off our Wedding Weekend on Friday night, it's time for Part 2: Saturday night!

Saturday night, we will have a dinner party for our out of town guests and family members. I have to say, this was surprisingly one of the more difficult tasks that I tackled. After our venue search turned out to be so easy, I thought simply finding a restaurant in midtown for Saturday night would be easy enough. I was so wrong! Anything close to the hotels that we booked turned out to be extremely expensive (like, rivaled the cost of food for the wedding itself) and we were stuck for a while. Then, I decided just to contact one of our favorite Manhattan joints, Campo, and see what their pricing was. Not only did they give us a great price, but they were so great to work with and happy to host our event! Even though this restaurant was in a totally different neighborhood, and we decided to get a bus for our guests, the price per person was still less than if we had chosen a restaurant near the hotels.

Campo Outside

Campo inside view of the main dining room

I love the food (mmm, fried tomatoes and mozzerella de-lish!) and the atmosphere and I am so happy that it has worked out with Campo for Saturday night. I anticipate that we'll have about 125 people (the size of some weddings!) composed of our close family members and out of town guests. After dinner, we're looking for a bar in the neighborhood that people can go to, or they can head back to one of the hotels where we have a block, The Roosevelt Hotel, and head up to their rooftop bar and lounge, Mad46, if the weather cooperates. I will probably head straight home to get my beauty sleep before the big day!

You may have noticed at this point that we're not doing a rehearsal dinner in the traditional sense. Our families will be with us on Friday and Saturday night, and we will have a chance to thank them on Friday night (we will probably head to the NYBG for a rehearsal on Friday morning). Since we are not having a formal bridal party, we did not feel the need for a formal rehearsal or subsequent dinner.

Were you able to incorporate any of your favorite restaurants into your wedding weekend? Are you having a pre or post event for out of towners?