Wedding Invitations

Romantic Wedding Invitation Wording

The etiquette for addressing the wedding invitations can be a bit difficult to understand, because, usually, for each situation you need a different wording style and you have to choose for the proper invitation card design.

The information about the wedding should be pertinent and you will have to mention the name of the bride and groom, the names of the wedding hosts, but not necessarily, the location of the wedding ceremony and after-party or reception, the name of that location and some directional signs, the time and date and the RSVP if the planning depends of those attendance responses.

The general information you need to know about the wedding invitations can be found below and I recommend following these tips if you are planning the wedding by yourself, without any help of a wedding planner.

The wording etiquette demands the use of a formal language to address the wedding invitations to your guests, but a simple alternative would be to issue the inviting using your own words or expressing manner. An option is to add or start the wedding invitations with some favorite verses, poems or quotes, or to just express your feelings for your loved one in a few words.

For each family situation, a different style of wording is necessary; for example if a father is deceased, if the parents are remarried or divorced, if we are talking about a second marriage, and so on. The parents of the bride act as the wedding hosts because they pay for the wedding, but sometimes the groom’s parents or both families decide to make a financial contribution to this planning of the wedding so both families are to be mentioned in the invitation. The bride and groom can also choose to issue themselves the inviting if they decide to pay for their own wedding.

The RSVP is an abbreviation that comes from the French expression “répondez s’il vous plait” and translated as “please respond”, but in some cases the couple will be expecting only the non-attendance responses so they will add only the expression “Regrets only” on the wedding card and a phone number for contact.

Usually the wording is made to match with the design of the wedding invitation or with the theme of the wedding. Also, the design or patterns of the wedding invitation can give a hint about the theme of the wedding party, and if you choose not to make a direct suggestion about how should your guests dress for such a party, the hint can be enough.

The popular printing method of the invitations is thermography just because it is cheap, fast and can create a beautiful effect with those raised letters; a more sophisticated method is that of the hand written text, with an intricate calligraphy style or letter fonts. The simple printing is another option but less popular nowadays.

The wedding invitations can be purchased and ordered directly from online manufacturers, which can offer you a large variety of unique, one of a kind invitation cards, with different color combination, sizes, shapes and designs; you can also choose some personalized invitation cards but they usually come more expensive.

I’ve mentioned something about the wording used in different situations, but there is no need to get frustrated by this thought; the only thing you need to know is that the romantic wording will never fail to impress your guests.

”We have experienced love… in our parents, families and friends, and now a new love in each other. Together with our parents we, Simone Dickens and Richard Dune, invite you to share with us a celebration of love. The ceremony will be held on Saturday, the sixth of July, two thousand eleven, at six o’clock in the evening, St. Mary’s Chapel, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.”

”We found the days were much too short for all the dreams we wanted to share and all the love we wanted to give. Simone Dickens and Richard Dune request the honour of your presence as they begin a life of dreaming, loving and sharing together on Saturday, the sixth of July, two thousand eleven, at six o’clock in the evening, St. Mary’s Chapel, Baton   Rouge, Louisiana.”