Wedding Invitations

Second Wedding Invitations

The designs of the wedding invitations come in a wide variety of motifs, patterns, shapes, sizes and color combinations and it is often recommended to match the design with the selected theme of the wedding party.




Ever since their introduction in the private circles of the eighteenth and nineteenth century English and French aristocracies, the wedding invitations have become increasingly popular especially among the members of some lower social ranks. What was first a form of entertainment for the nobility and the royal families became in the beginning of the twentieth century a normal custom of announcing the wedding day. If people were too poor to buy and send the wedding invitations they always had the option of using the newspaper to announce the wedding day.

The simple and white wedding invitations were soon replaced by the themed and colorful ones, and the technological developments allowed the use of different methods to print and personalize the wedding invitations cards, such as thermography.

Thermography creates a raised pattern or letter effect, making the invitations beautiful and classy. Its expensive and classical alternative is the hand written text with an intricate calligraphy style.

The wording etiquette usually demands the use of a formal language to issue the invitations but you can always be creative with words and use a personal form of addressing the invitations to you guests, especially if we are talking about the second wedding invitations.

In general, when the bride and groom are remarrying or only one of the partners will attend to his or her second marriage, the wording used doesn’t have to point that out. It is enough to ask their children to act as the wedding hosts and to make the inviting or some other close friends or relatives if the parents are missing or already deceased.

It doesn’t matter what is your wording preference for the wedding invitations for the second wedding; the important thing is that the invitation must contain the necessary information about the wedding ceremony, reception or party such as the name of the future married couple, first the name of the bride and secondly the name of the groom, the name of the wedding hosts or the ones that pay for the wedding, the name of the wedding location and address, the time and date and an RSVP.

For the invitations for the second wedding you can use a formal language or an informal wording.

“Elizabeth Glass and Alexander Thomas request the honour of your presence at their marriage, on Saturday, the twenty eighth of March, two thousand and ten, at ten o’clock in the morning, St. Mary’s Chapel, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.”

“Soon we will be joining together all the hopes for the future and our lives. Please join us as we spend the first of our life together on Saturday, the twenty eighth of March, two thousand and ten, at ten o’clock in the morning, St. Mary’s Chapel, Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Elizabeth Glass and Alexander Thomas.”

“Sara Glass and George Thomas, invite you at the ceremony that will make them sister and brother, as their parents, Elizabeth Glass and Alexander Thomas, unite as one in marriage, on Saturday, the twenty eighth of March, two thousand and ten, at ten o’clock in the morning, St. Mary’s Chapel, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.”

The names of the hosts is mentioned only if the wording is formal, but if the inviting is issued by using an informal language, the hosts, in general being the bride’s parents, could also not be mentioned; it all depends on the personal preferences of the couple.

If the RSVP is added, your guests must understand that you want an attendance response before the actual wedding day and in some cases this abbreviation is replaced by the expression “Regrets only” and a phone number for contact which means that the couple expects only the non-attendance responses.

The wedding invitations have to be read again with fresh eyes before sealing them in their double or single envelops, to spot any wrong spellings or mistakes of using the proper honorifics or addressing forms. The wedding invitations must be mailed out with minimum six weeks before the actual wedding day.