H & I
The invitation
Harriet Quayle
and Ivo Renshaw
ask you to their wedding
at Harnaby Mill on Johns Island
on Saturday the twelfth of June
at half past two in the afternoon
and afterwards to dinner
Black tie is not expected. Reply by Saturday, March 27, 2027.
We met on a Tuesday
It was a line for a fire alarm outside an office on Meeting Street, and neither of us worked in the building. Nine years, two apartments and one very slow dog later, we are getting married at the mill where Ivo's grandparents were married in 1961.
There is more of this than anyone needs, and we have written it down anyway.
Read the long versionThe order of the day
- 2pm
- Doors, and a drink The yard
- 2:30pm
- The ceremony The yard, or the grain floor if wet
- 3:15pm
- Photographs, briefly By the pond
- 4pm
- Iced tea, beer and a cake table The long barn
- 6pm
- Dinner The grain floor
- 8:30pm
- Toasts The grain floor
- 9:15pm
- The band, then the playlist The long barn
- 12:30am
- Bacon biscuits The yard
- 1am
- Send-off The lane
Send-off at one. The whole day, in more detail.
H & I
Harnaby Mill
A working grist mill until 1974, on Harn Creek at the edge of Johns Island. The ceremony is in the yard if it is dry and in the grain floor if it is not; either way it is the same eighty chairs and the same draft.
Harnaby Mill, Johns Island, South Carolina
SC 29455
What to wear
Whatever you would wear to a good lunch. Suits without ties are right, dresses are right, seersucker would be welcome. There is no color we have asked people to avoid.
The yard is gravel and the field beyond it is a field, so bring shoes you can stand up in for six hours. It will still be warm at ten, and the mosquitoes come out at dusk.
H & I
The reply card
Two questions and a box for anything you cannot eat. One reply per envelope, please — it is the only way we can count the chairs.
Please answer by Saturday, March 27, 2027.
Reply nowOr write to hello@harrietandivo.example, or call Nell Quayle on (843) 555-0164.
One sheet, cut seven ways
The whole suite comes off a single sheet of sage card and a single sheet of sand: the invitation, the enclosures, the reply card and the chips the photographs are printed on. Each piece is trimmed a step narrower than the one behind it, which is why the wording on this page gets smaller as you go down it — the words never change, only the card they have to fit.