Wedding Invitations

Traditional Wedding Invitation Wording

When it comes to the wording of wedding invitations, people might get confused or scared of what they should write on their announcement. Nothing is more simple than that.

Traditional wedding invitations should simply include the name of the hosts and their relationship to the bride.

If the parents are divorced, remarried, separated or widowed, there are various options of putting these information on the paper.

Traditional wedding invitations, written in the formal style, are written in the third person, making reference to the hosts of the ceremony, by using their full names. There is a large variety of invitation wording options, and if you do not find a sample suitable to your situation, you can simply combine them, until you reach the one from you desired result.

There are some wording conventions, suitable for any type of wedding invitation, as follows:

-punctuation is not used, unless after courtesy titles, such as Dear Sir/Madam
-not every line beginning is capitalized; only the full names and the courtesy titles
-the numbers of the day have to be spelled out, and to follow the date, for example Sunday, the sixth of May
-years do not need to be included in the invitation
-times are spelled out, as follows: three o`clock in the evening, and not 3:00 p.m., or ten o`clock in the morning, and not 10:00 a.m.
-instead of using “We invite you…”, use names in the third person, such as “Mr. and Ms. Smith invite you…”

The first line must always include the persons, who host the wedding. It used to be easier decades ago, when brides were very young, because their parents usually hosted and payed for the entire ceremony. Nowadays, you must include all the persons who host the couple`s event.

The next line usually includes etiquette outlines, including the way the hosts invite their guests. There are also some typical phrases for traditional wording, like

-the honor of your presence…
-request the pleasure of your company/presence…
-invite you to celebrate with them at the marriage of…
-would consider it a blessing if you could be present at the marriage of…

When deciding what to say in your invites, consider also the design of your invitation. Contemporary invitations include also poems or quotations, who the young couple decides that fits best to describe their love, or the theme of the wedding. For example, if the ceremony takes place at seaside, you can include ” Because our love is as enduring as the seas…” on your invitation. You can have lots of fun, by playing around with the wording, because inspiration floats all around. Create a text written in rhymes, or go for a casual voice, try anything that passes through your mind, combine, compare and decide.

The invitations written in a formal, traditional style might seem out of style, and you do not want your ceremony to seem common, nor boring, do you ?!