Wedding Invitations

Hawaiian Wedding Invitations

The designs, shapes, sizes and color combinations for the Hawaiian  wedding invitations are so numerous that you might find it hard to choose one single favorite design for you wedding; you have two options: to purchase the invitation directly from online manufacturers or the choose for a personalized wedding invitations.




If you are planning for a tropical or beach or Hawaiian theme wedding with wedding invitations to match the ideas are infinite and they all depend on how inventive you can be; you can also set your imagination free and make the wedding invitations yourself. You can use some warm colors such as yellow or orange as the predominant colors of the wedding invitations as reference to the season of summer, the bright sun or the beach. You can also make a color combination of yellow and blue, reference to the beach and the sea or you can add a stylized palm tree, etc.

The wording etiquette demands the use of a formal language to issue the invitations but you can also be creative with words and issue them by using an informal, non-traditional language.

No matter what is you choice, remember that the invitation must contain the basic information about the wedding ceremony and reception or party, such as the names of the bride and groom, the names of the wedding hosts or the couple’s families, the location and address of the ceremony and reception, the date and time, an RSVP for attendance responses or the expression “Regrets Only” if you are expecting only for the non-attendance responses, and other details such as some directional signs or a printed map for the wedding location, the theme of the wedding and some suggestions about the wedding attire, etc. There are some other cases when the bride and groom decide to have a private ceremony in a tropical destination and they plan a beach theme reception at home when they come back; in this situation the wording suffers some minor changes and you are expected to share the information mentioned above to your guests.

For the informal wedding invitations it is not necessary to mention the names of the wedding hosts, usually being the bride’s parents, because there are cases when the bride and groom decide to pay for their own wedding or receive just a small financial support from both their families.

You can also make a suggestion about the wedding theme by using some tropical or beach wedding invitation with a theme-related design and match it with a specific wording style or starting the inviting with a Hawaiian phrase for the wedding invitations such as: “Hookumu Maua Ka Hale Puni Maua Ohana Me Ka Pumehana A Me Ka Oiloli Kealoha” (May we create a home that surrounds our family and friends with warmth, laughter and love); E Lei Kau, E Lei Ho’oilo I Ke Aloha (Love is worn like a wreath through the summers and winters; love is everlasting); Ua Ola Ae Nei Loko I Ko Aloha (Life is once more alive within me for my love of you) or Ho’okahi Makamaka O Ko Aloha (Our love begins the union of our life together).

Some Hawaiian wording examples for the wedding invitations can be found right below:

“A perfect shell is a gift from the sea, as beautiful and unique as our love is meant to be. Please join us as we, Laura Devon and Timothy Renfield, join our lives in marriage, on Friday, the twenty-sixth of August, two thousand and eleven, at six o’clock in the evening, Sunset Inn, Honolulu, Hawaii. Reception immediately following ceremony.”

“It’s a Shore thing…we’re getting married! Together, we wrote our names in the sand and the waves washed them away, so we will write them in our hearts and there they will stay. Laura Devon and Timothy Renfield, invite you to share in our happiness, on Friday, the twenty-sixth of August, two thousand and eleven, at six o’clock in the evening, Sunset Inn, Sunset Inn, Honolulu, Hawaii.”

“This day we begin the adventure of a lifetime… Please join us, along with our parents, as we, Laura Devon and Timothy Renfield, are united in marriage as a seaside ceremony, on Friday, the twenty-sixth of August, two thousand and eleven, at six o’clock in the evening, Sunset Inn, Sunset Inn, Honolulu, Hawaii. Reception immediately following ceremony.”