My fiance is in the Air Force. He is very limited in the days that he can take off and fly home for our wedding. Because of deployments in his office, he will not know the exact date he will be able to come home for our wedding until 2-4 weeks before hand. Because of this lack of planning time, we will be having a very small family only wedding at our church whenever he happens to be here this summer. We will be moving across the country after the wedding. We are planning to have a large renewal of the vows ceremony in December when he has time off for Christmas. We are planning to invite about 100 people, since this will be the celebration with our friends and family, and we will be having a large reception afterwards. I will be wearing a formal dress and he will wear his dress blues.
How can we word announcements/invitations for this event?
It would be better to have your wedding ceremony when your groom is home and then host a wedding reception later or wait until December to have the wedding and reception on the same day. Vow renewals are typically done for benchmark anniversaries or after particularly difficult times in a marriage to renew what you promised years ago. After only a few months there really isn't much to renew.
If you want to have the wedding now and the reception later, send reception invitations to everyone you want to invite and then announcements to those you will not be inviting to the reception. Top Wedding Questions Forum Moderator - "Write your sorrows in the sand, your blessings in stone".
Yes, I completely agree. Be careful with your planning, because a vow renewal is not a wedding. There is no formal gown. There is no bride, groom, attendants, and prewedding parties. After all, you two will be husband and wife. So, plan the wedding you want or the later reception is even a better idea. With belated wedding reception invitations, you don't have to mention the wedding, as your guests will know you are married by the reception date.
Vow Renewal 6 months after wedding
