stefian

Has anybody any ideas for wording our party invites.

We are having an Australian fancy dress party for our leaving do. but the invite may be the first some people know of us leaving (in laws not really discussing it)

Ideas welcome

Steph x

Phoenixuk2oz

"We're off to Oz.....wanna come to our party?"

Phoenixuk2oz

Sandy.l

'To all those who haven't got the message that we're moving to Oz - you are not cordially invited to....'

'If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me?' (courtesy of Lynyrd Skynyrd - Freebird)

'If you really loved us you'd let us go, we really love you so please come and say goodbye'

a bit of emotional blackmail never harmed.

soapy©

just put on the front


Free Booze !!!!!!
that should do the trick

stefian

Thanks everyone

Like the emotional blackmail, it's definately needed for some people in our family. We'll just sent the invites and wait and see

Some how don't think i'll need to buy any fire works

Steph x
Brisbane 6-8 weeks yippee

ANA123

We had that picture of the opera house with the george cross on it for ours, wording just went something like...'We're off.... but we'd like to say goodbye. Join us at.....'

Jacqui

We worded ours something like this: Bruce, Sheila and their little possums are heading Down Under and we'd love all our old mates and rellies to join us for a leaving party. There'll be plenty of good tucker and tinnies and it would be just bonza if you could come wearing something in an Aussie style.

It went on like that, using all the Aussie slang words we could think of. Most people made the effort to dress up, even if it meant just going out and buying a cork hat. We thought word had got round about our impending departure, but a day or so after the invitations were posted, I had no end of phone calls, even hearing from relatives I hadn't spoken to for years! The in-laws didn't approve of our plans either and made life difficult in the run-up to us leaving and on the day of the party eventually turned up four hours late then spent most of the evening sobbing, but we still had a damn good time!

We left the country just 5 days after the party, not the best timing really, but we had to book the hall well in advance because it was wedding season, and if we had been unsuccessful with our visa application we would have thrown a 40th birthday bash for my hubby instead. When we got our visas in the post and saw the date they had to be validated by, we knew that last week was going to be very hectic indeed. But at least we knew we wouldn't be saying goodbye to everyone at the party, and then again some weeks later we would have had to repeat all the goodbyes and had a load of people at the airport. We literally did say goodbye to everyone at the party, we're off next week!