Wedding Invitations

Catholic Wedding Invitation Wording

The custom of sending out the wedding invitations is a long lasting tradition and we ca probably say that it all started with the first wedding ever. Of course, there weren’t any written letters, but like in the Medieval Ages, the invitation could be issued out loud.

The wording is highly important for the Catholic wedding invitations, and it is not rare to mention the name of God or Christ in the invitation and requesting the Holy blessing.

There are some very important details you might want to know about the wedding invitations in general and since selecting them might not seem like such an easy task, below are some tips about the wedding invitations and the wording used to address them to your guests.

With the help of the popular Internet you can purchase the wedding invitations directly from online manufacturers. The offers are numerous and you can find a large variety of card designs, patterns, sizes, shapes and colors; those manufacturers can give you the possibility of personalizing your wedding invitations so that you can be sure they will be unique or one-of-a-kind.

Thermography can be seen as the cheapest and one of the best methods to write the text of the invitation; other options are the hand writing, which is quite expensive, and the engraving methods.

There are two styles of wording from which you can choose one: using an unconventional language or issuing the wedding invitations by using your own words, sometimes adding some favorite quotes or verses, or by using the formal wording, with a determined style depending on the family situation, for examples, if the parents are decease, if they are remarried, etc.

Usually, for a Catholic wedding, the phrase “at the marriage in Christ of” can be expanded from the simple “at the marriage of” and if the wedding ceremony involves a Mass you may want to add the expression “your presence at the Nuptial (High) Mass”.

Usually the family of the bride issues the invitations and act as the wedding hosts because the parents are the ones to pay for the wedding; sometimes the bride and the groom can choose to pay for their own wedding and so it will be their own decision to mention the names of the wedding hosts or not on the invitation. In some cases, even the parents of the groom can make a financial contribution so both their families are to be mentioned.

The information about the wedding should be pertinent and the basic thing will be to mention the name of the bride and groom, the name of the wedding hosts, but this is a personal decision; other details are about the location of the wedding ceremony and reception, the name of the locations, the time, the date and the RSVP if you find it necessary to receive an attendance response.

Usually the whole planning of the wedding may depend on the answer of attendance, but if you would like to receive only the non-attendance replies you can write only “Regrets only” and add a phone number for contact.

All the numbers, except for the one in the address, are spelled out, there should be no abbreviations written in the invitation text and the capitalization of letters should be used only on proper nouns.

A wrong use of honorifics or some other spelling mistakes can cause some embarrassments with your invited quests so make sure to read again, several times the information written on the invitation card; only after you can seal the invitations in their single or double envelopes and mail them out with eight to ten weeks in advance before the actual wedding day.

Here are some examples for the catholic wording for the wedding invitations.

“Emily Cullen Simon Jenkins request the honour of your presence as Christ unites them to become one, on Saturday, the seventeenth of April, two thousand and ten, at ten o’clock in the morning, St. Mary’s Church, New   Orleans, Louisiana.”

“Emily Cullen Simon Jenkins, together with their parents, invite you to share their joy as they are united in the Lord Jesus Christ, on Saturday, the seventeenth of April, two thousand and ten, at ten o’clock in the morning, St. Mary’s Church, New Orleans, Louisiana.”