Wedding Invitations

Reception Only Wedding Invitations

What was first a form of entertainment for the members of the English and French aristocracies, the custom of sending wedding invitations with the purpose of announcing a wedding ceremony gained a huge popularity by the beginning of the twentieth century, especially when it reached the shores of the United States. If until the nineteenth century the people from lower social ranks were just too poor and uneducated to send wedding invitations, they had to announce this event by spreading the word among family members or the private circles of close friends. In the following century education was not such a great problem and almost all citizens could afford buying and sending wedding invitations but they also had the cheap alternative option of making the announcement in the local or national newspaper.

The information mentioned above is a brief introduction in the history of the wedding invitations.

The simple and white wedding invitation cards were replaced by the multi-colored ones with different patterned designs or shapes and sizes. The ceremony and reception only wedding invitations can be selected so that they could match with the theme of the wedding. The themed weddings have become increasingly popular in the last years because not all people could afford organizing such an important event in exotic and dreamful destinations. Sometimes it can be enough to create the exotic atmosphere at home.

New printing methods such as thermography are used in creating beautiful and cheap wedding invitations, at a large scale. Thermography has the great advantage of creating a raised pattern and letter effect so even if people can not afford buying some elegant invitations with hand written text and an intricate calligraphy style, the wedding invitations can still look classy.

The online wedding invitation manufactures give you the possibility of directly purchasing the ceremony or reception only invitations from their internet sites after viewing the numerous samples or to personalize your own invitations just to be sure they are unique and one-of-a-kind. Another option is to make them yourself if you have the necessary time, patience and artistic skill.

The wedding reception only invitations can have their separate envelopes or the invitation cards could be mailed out in their special double or single envelopes.

Probably not only once have you heard about the wedding invitation etiquette and its great importance, especially when you would like to adopt the traditional wording for addressing the invitations.

This etiquette demands the use of a formal language to issue the inviting depending on various circumstances but its modern alternative is the use of an informal wording; the non-traditional language includes the use of a humorous wording, favorite quotes, verses or poems to start the invitations or by simply expressing in you own words the feelings of love, friendship and happiness.

The wedding invitation should contain the basic information about the ceremony and reception such as the name of the wedding hosts, the names of the bride and groom, always mentioning the name of the bride first, the location of the wedding ceremony or reception and the address, with some important details such as the directional signs or even a printed map, the time and date, etc.<

Sometimes the reception wedding invitation cards are separate from the wedding ceremony invitation cards; the RSVP can also be included in the wedding invitation or on a separate card. The RSVP is usually mentioned only when the attendance responses are necessary for the planning of the wedding or its final arrangements but in some situations the couple can expect only for the non-attendance replies so the RSVP is replaced with the expression “Regrets only” and a phone number for direct contact. The couple can add a return address to the RSVP if it is written on a separate card.

Another important thing that should be mentioned is about the wedding hosts: the bride’s parents have to act as the wedding hosts in general but there are cases when the bride an groom decide to pay for their own wedding or accept only a small financial contribution from their parents so it will be their personal decision whether to include the names of their families or not on the invitations.

The recommended period of time to mail out the wedding invitations, especially when expecting the attendance responses, is of minimum six weeks or between eight and ten weeks before the planned wedding day.

Always make sure to identify the spelling mistakes and the wrong uses of honorifics or addressing forms in the invitation text, before sealing the invitations in their envelopes.