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I am curious as to the consensus of the eclectic group of people who post here. In your experience either in making a wedding or being invited to one, have you seen invitations that list the hall without its address and also without the caterer’s directions to it?
I don’t think directions are required, with the ubiquity of navigation devices. I think the address is standard, though.
Were the invitations already printed? If they were, don’t bother. Everyone will figure it out.
The eclectic DY
It’s a real sha’alah. I think the seforim deal with that particular sort of problem. In Talmidical terms it’s called “mareh makom hu lo”.
Kidding aside, I’ve seen such. And there’s one who’s a close friend, and I don’t know where on earth the hall is (actually I know it’s somewhere in the state of New York). If you’re only inviting people from the immediate surroundings, nu – why bother. But if you plan on inviting someone not from that neighborhood (and you really want them to attend), I would think it’s common sense to put an address on it too.
(maybe to save on ink, print two sets of invitations…)
One shouldn’t invite people who need invitations to know to come.
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This should be the biggest issue. Good job in not causing machlokes. If we can all be tolerant of our religious differences, we can certainly try to be tolerant of our stylistic and cultural differences.
DY: Who is ever tolerant of religious differences? 🙂
Sam: oomis.
I have seen invitations that do not list the address. It is considered fancier that way for some reason.
Anyone can just type the name of the hall into Google and get the address and directions.
Maybe they shouldn’t list the date and time either wow now that’s fancy!!!!!
Haha, Goq, or the names of the chosson/kallah or parents.
They should print everything but leave out the paper.
RebYidd23- Not much of a joke. You can have the text in script, printed in plastic. You don’t need a paper to support it. That would be cool. Or you can have it printed on wood.
Mazel Tov, oomis, on the upcoming simcha!
I have received invitations without printed directions to the hall.
I don’t remember ever getting an invite with no address for the hall.
Maybe I’m not getting invited to the fancy weddings.
(Funny, because I’ve really enjoyed the simchas I’ve attended.)
I want to join the other posters who congratulate you on solving the problem creatively, efficiently, and best of all, without causing any hurt feelings or unpleasantness. Kol HaKavod!!!
Gamanit, anyone whom you can’t just call is being invited because you don’t want to hurt their feelings and they will come so as not to insult you.
It’s not a matter of forcing people to Google. I think the havana is that a fancy wedding hall is a known landmark that shouldn’t need an address (for those in town). For example, you might invite your neighbors to a “kiddush at the Young Israel of Coffeeland” without giving an address because everyone in Coffeeland knows where the Young Israel is.
Perhaps this is even some sort of a throw back to ancient times when towns were smaller and there were no addresses.
Since this is the CR, I’ll have to say that this is probably chukas akum because the goyim would always get married in the church in the center of town that didn’t need an address because everyone knew where it was.
I actually find invitations a useful way to keep track of weddings. While I don’t need an invitation to come to a wedding, it’s better than scribbling the date and address on a random scrap of paper. Who says I’d be able to read it later? If I would wait for an invitation to go to a wedding, I would have missed the wedding of my good friend. When I got her invitation, it was postmarked from two weeks before her wedding. I got it more than a month after the wedding. Funny part was that I never even realized that I didn’t get an invitation- I had thought that I just lost it.
Those that I’d invite don’t have internet and couldn’t Google address. If the simcha is at the Waldorf, an address isn’t necessary.
If you have to ask for the address, you don’t belong. Stay away you untermensch.
/sarcasm
Y doe, are you telling me it’s time to pack my bags (and my keyboard) and leave the coffeeroom??
– I have never attended a simcha at the Waldorf.
– I don’t know the address of the Waldorf.
(I can google it but seems that doesn’t count.)
I didn’t realize what a classy bunch hang out here. I’m guessing the coffee isn’t instant either…
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Wow, you used the word ubermensch.(?)
OHHH!
So it’s you, the one with the sticker in the back!!!!
(ok, stop hyperventilating.. I’m just kidding.. at least so far.. I’ll check my mail..)
I like that last line – You should be zoche to make your Simcha b’simchah!! True happiness and gladness, with only good and fond lasting memories of it (and preparations too!)
Tzefardea HaKatan at Coffeeland
301 Park Ave, New York, NY 10022
Methinks that most wedding invitationss that have Hevrew and English, have the address in English but not in Hebrew.
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