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Okay really I have a few things I need suggestions on so please forgive me.

1. We have not offically picked a date yet but our options are February '07 before the Hubby leaves for deployment, or October/November '07 when he returns home.  I'm thinking the October/November wedding sounds alot more reasonable. Anyway, I need color suggestions for those two months February or October/November! (sorry if I've confused you already)

2.  We are already married.  We had a JOP wedding but no family could attend so this ceremony is for them.  I am making save the date cards to mail out.  What should they say the occasion say?  Is it okay to say 'Save the date for Jesse & Brandi's Wedding'  even though its technically a 2nd wedding? 

3.  Also, how should I word the invitations?  My parents aren't asking the presence of the guests.  Jesse and I are.  I need good wording so that people who didnt already know we are married will know what is going on!

 I'm soooo sorry if this post makes no sense.  I make no sense to myself alot of times!  But any suggestions will help greatly! THANKS!

 

Brandi you are too cute..... I'm not married but I thought of some phrases that may help you...

”Even though we have already tied the knot, we would like to invite you to be part of our larger gathering”

“YOUR NAME and HUBBY NAME announces their marriage”

“YOUR NAME and HUBBY NAME invite you to share in their joy as they exchange vows”

I know that their not the best but, I hope that gets the ball rolling for you some. 

As far as color I'm really not sure. I'm not too big on the color thing for the season of the wedding, can't help you there.

 

If you get married in February, you could always go with Valentine's Day kind of colors. (if he's wearing his blues those would go great!) If you do Oct./Nov you could still go with some of the darker fall colors that would go (like a burgendy or dark blue)

 For the save the date cards I would still think it'd be ok to put what you wrote even though its the second wedding.. I had found a site back when I did my save the dates that had great tips for wording, etc... I'll see if I can find it.. And then for the invitations, are his parents going to help pay for any of it or your parents? If so your supposed to include whichever parents are I do believe. And if its mainly just you two then I'd only put Brandi & Jesse request your presence..etc....

1. Ok as for colors, a lot of couples do navy and red or red and some other color because it looks really nice with his dress blues.

2. You could call it a Vow Ceremony, Renewing Your Vows, Vow Renewal, or really anything you want. Because your family and friends couldn't make it to your JOP wedding, I don't think it would be weird to just call it a wedding.

3. http://www.theknot.com/keywords/sc_152_527.shtml Try the wording wizard, it will help you come up with the appropriate way to word it.

You should stick with something like - Jesse and Brandi *LastName* request your presence at their wedding on *date* at *place*.

By using your lastname, it should point out that you two are already married. If not instead of wedding you could use vow ceremony or whatever you have chosen to call it.

 

We called our second wedding a Vow Renewal Ceremony. One thing I learned from it was that you might want to include you maiden name on it in ( ) or hyphenated because aparently some people didn't know my married name, lol. We included my parent's on the inviatation since they paid for about 90% of it. We did a Jan wedding...it was just 2 days shy of our 1 yr anniversary. On the day of our anniversary we were on our way to the Bahamas!!!

I'm not sure what you can "call" it...but you can say it's renewing your vows instead of a wedding.  I know that's not much help buuuut that's all I can think of for now!! (call me lol)

Mark and I will finally be having our wedding for our 10 year anniversary and I'm going to call it our wedding where we will renew our vows. I say call it a wedding, that's what it is right? I would put it in the invitation that you will be having your wedding to renew your vows to each other. I hope that made some kind of sense, lol. =)

if you want it called a wedding then its a wedding!

as far as wording, with the whole parents requestiong the presence of..... that is normally for brides (or grooms) who's parents are funding the wedding, sort of honoring them.

but i would think that just sayiing we are requesting your presence at our wedding. or somthjing alon those lines

theknot.com is excellent!

My husband and I had a JOP wedding too and we want to renew it in two years or so.

My husband and I will have a church wedding so on our invitation will probably say:

"NAMES GOES HERE" exchanged vows in a civil ceremony on "DATE"; The honour of your presence is requested at a church ceremony on "DATE, TIME, PLACE" with a reception to follow at "PLACE"

Or you could say:

The honour of your presence is requested at the renewal of the wedding vows of "NAMES GOES HERE"

"DATE"

"TIME"

"ADDRESS"

I think it's okay to do whatever you like because it's your wedding. As far as the color, maybe red flowers. Good luck finding the right words for your invitations.

My husband and I will be also be having our church wedding in Chicago after he's done with his tour in Okinawa. Basically, it's a renewal of vows but we would simply call it our "Wedding" hehe. I cant think of any lovely way to call it. Try checking this site for ideas for wordings to use on your invitation http://wedding.invitations4less.com/html/wording_samples.html

I agree with Jasnim on having some red flowers. Those gala roses (dark red ones) are perfect.