Wedding Invitations

Wedding Etiquette For Wording On Invitations

Invitations are seen as a form of a message meant to let people know of an upcoming event in the social life of a person or persons. They can be transmitted either orally or in writing. The easiest way to  deliver a message is of course the verbal one, many people preferring it  over the one delivered in writing, the first one being the normal consequence of the nowadays modern means created for intercommunication. People have also lost the sense of actually writing and formulating in writing different request or transmitting different messages. These situations occur mostly in our daily life while the routine is displaying its habits, but it is not the case when it comes to special events that need to be announced in official ways, hence the strict formality of a message that has to be worded according to certain etiquettes imposed by the occasion.




One of these occasions that ask for a special way of delivering its upcoming occurrence is the wedding celebration. This event requires certain rules to be followed, rules that include wedding etiquette for wording on invitations. Long before starting to plan your wedding event you need to outline the shape and the style of your invitations. You need first of all to decide on your wedding theme, or the tonality you want it to be displayed in (to have a funny note, a formal one or a bit of both). But regardless of your chosen theme or note, there is however an etiquette needed to be applied in the wording of your invitation cards.

This etiquette can be approached from different perspectives: etiquette that is understood as compulsory in the wording of formal, traditional weddings and etiquette that is modeled according to the informal note of the wedding. Basically, in its definition “etiquette” means the ‘conduct or procedure required by good breeding or prescribed by authority to be observed in social or official life’ (according to Webster’s dictionary), but because social life can contain an entire series of colorful situations, the etiquette’s norms can be as well flexed with colorful expressions keeping at the same time the good breeding conduct, in this way avoiding possible offenses.

The general etiquette either it goes for formal or informal note of a wedding requires for a wording that contains names, type and purpose of the party, the date, the hour, the location and information replied back by the RSVPs. It is a note of common sense and consideration towards the wedding guests to include in the envelope that has the invitation card, driving instructions to the specific location, the places supposed to host the ceremony and/or the reception.

All these details of the etiquette regarding the information transmitted, can be worded in the tonality that represents the best the spirit of your wedding celebration. If you have for instance, a Halloween themed wedding, you can include funny or even slightly ‘scary’ creative remarks of your wedding announcement but keeping at the same time the note of appreciation in the case of an eventual attendance. No matter how you decide to announce your details, you still have to be respectful toward your invitees, after all they are the ones to witness the event that is the most special and unique of your life!