Wedding Invitations

Addressing Wedding Invitations

Creating your wedding invitations involves the knowledge of several aspects that have to be included in the design of your wedding cards together with the wording and ways of addressing wedding invitations to your family and close friends. Considering these aspects you will be sure to obtain the cards that will appeal to your guests and determine them to accept your invitation honoring your special event with their presence. First of all the design and the format of your card should be the one to draw the attention and related to it you have to keep in mind that the addressee is one of the persons you have chosen to attend to your big day therefore a lot of importance is granted.

After you have decided on the style of the design following the theme of your wedding or recording the formal tone of the traditional wedding or the casual tone of a summertime themed wedding you have to proceed with addressing wedding invitations in the tone you have previously established to belong to your wedding celebration. In this respect online bridal stationeries offer examples of wording and draw some guidelines for the ways of addressing and wrapping the wedding cards, but all of them go for the advice of following your own personal style when it comes to the wording.

And as such you should remember that the type of your wedding is the one that can become source of inspiration regarding the wording, though there are some etiquette rules that need to be followed. These rules not only they dictate about the right manner to address a wedding card, but they also reflect the respect you show toward your guests. For instance, “X and Y request the honor of your presence” or “X and Y are tying the knot and they would be more than pleased to have this done in your presence, therefore you are kindly invited on the…” following the date and the rest of the details of the wedding.

When it comes to addressing, writing the full name is also a note of consideration shown toward your guests, though you may be excused using initials only when you are not aware of the person’s full name. And as such there is the Miss (or Ms.) Elizabeth Walters for single unmarried female guest, for divorced women to be used Mrs. Victoria Bradley, for unmarried male guests to be used Mr. John Fox, for married couples Mr. and Mrs. Simon Ripley, for the married couple where the woman had kept her maiden name you can address to the wife first Mrs. Shannon Court and then the husband Mr. Walt Freeman.

A rule of politeness is for the wedding couples never use nicknames of the addressee or diminutives known from the childhood periods or the periods of close friendships; this is a note of affection but shown only on behalf of one of the parts (either bride or groom – or parents of the couple); considering that the invitation is made on behalf of the both you should leave aside these childhood diminutives’ appellations.

The full address – including the street number and ZIP code- is the one to follow the name of the guests where the full detailed address is desired to be known, this is again a sign of respect to the guest, proving that you got yourself involved in the process of finding out his/her/their address in order to have their presence (which is very important) attending your event.