Wedding Invitations

Wedding Invitation Wording Religious

The wedding day is special day for both bride and groom and their families, so the planning and organizing of such an event can occupy their minds for quite some time.

The custom of sending wedding invitations or rather to issue an invitation at a wedding is as old as the tradition of organizing a wedding so it is very important to know how to choose them.

The wedding invitations come in an overwhelming variety of designs, patterns, shapes and sizes and color combination types so you have to be careful when selecting the right design for your wedding. An idea would be to select the classic and simple wedding invitation, single colored or white, or to match the pattern of the wedding invitation card with the theme of your wedding.

Thermography is the cheapest and possibly the best method of printing a wedding invitation; you can also choose for the engraving method and use the classical tissue for the wedding invitations or the hand written text.

You can directly purchase the wedding invitations from online manufacturers; on the internet you can find a wide variety of unique designs and select whatever product you like or you can also order some personalized invitation cards that will surely be one-of-a-kind. You can always test your artistic skills and patience and make the invitations using only your imagination and manual dexterity; this do-it-yourself option is worth your time only if you have a limited number of guests and if you have the necessary time.

To issue the invitation you can always use the formal wording, based on an old wording etiquette for the wedding invitations, or the non-traditional language or to express the inviting by using your own words. For the latter option, you can also use some favorite quotes, verses or poems to start the invitation.

The wedding invitation should always contain the basic and pertinent information about the wedding ceremony or reception: the name of the bride, mentioned first, the name of the groom, the location of the ceremony, the date and time.

The information about the reception, such as the name of the location, the address, the time and date can be written on the wedding card or on a separate card.

The same goes with the RSVP: you can add a phone number on the wedding invitations or the expression “Regrets only” if you are expecting only the non-attendance responses, or you can simply write it on a separate reply card with a return address.

The above is the general information about the wedding invitations but the religious wording has certain characteristics such as the courtesy titles and proper names are capitalized, capital letters are treated as sentences and are capitalized if you would read the wording as a sentence, the year can be spelled or not, the date should also be spelled and it follows the day, the formal invitations are written in third person and the punctuation should be used only after courtesy titles or honorifics such as Dr. or Mr. and Mrs.

”They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Gilbert, request the honour of your presence at the marriage of their daughter, Gillian to Robert Johnson, son of Mr. Steve Johnson and Mrs. Jessica Lawson, on Saturday, the twenty seventh of May, two thousand and ten, at half past six o’clock in the evening, St. Mary’s Church, Lafayette, Louisiana.”

“God gives life a chance to give love on the twenty seventh of May, two thousand and ten as Gillian Gilbert and Robert Johnson will be united in Holy Matrimony. Your presence is requested by the parents of the bride, Valery and Thomas Gilbert, to join in this celebration of love at half past six o’clock in the evening, St. Mary’s Church, Lafayette, Louisiana.”

“Desiring God’s will for their lives and believing that includes each other, Gillian Gilbert and Robert Johnson, together with their parents, invite you to share their joy as they are united in the Lord Jesus Christ, on Saturday, the twenty seventh of May, two thousand and ten, at half past six o’clock in the evening, St. Mary’s Church, Lafayette, Louisiana.”