Wedding Invitations

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The wedding invitations and the custom of sending them to close relatives and friends dates back several centuries ago when this form of announcing a wedding was exclusively practiced by the wealthy as just another method of entertainment before the actual wedding day pompously celebrated with opulent dinners and parties.

If you know a little history you can easily imagine the royal houses from Europe and especially the English and French aristocracies announcing their marriages with the simple white and one page wedding invitations with beautiful hand calligraphy and using the family crest or coat of arms ad main design for it. The wedding invitations were then sent in a double envelope because they often reached their destinations being all ripped and dirtied.

In the beginning of the twentieth century the wedding invitations became increasingly popular, especially when this custom had reached the United States shores where the wealthy were less than the poor. Almost all people from all social ranks could afford buying and sending the wedding invitations or they had a cheaper alternative of announcing the wedding day in a local or national newspaper. Education no longer seemed to be a major problem like it was back in the middle ages when the wedding invitations were verbalized or issued out loud because a great part of the population of Europe didn’t know how to read or write.

Today, technology allowed the mass production of creative, personalized, unique or one-of-a-kind wedding invitations in almost all possible shapes and sizes, color combinations and outstanding pattern designs and materials.

The simple invitations written on one page can now be folded in three or four or more parts and the expensive method of writing the wedding invitations by hand with an intricate calligraphy style can easily be replaced with the cheap and fast printing technique known as thermography, with its beautiful raised patterns or letter effect.

The themed weddings are now announced with the help of the special themed wedding invitations purchased directly from online invitation manufacturers. These wedding invitation manufacturers also give you the option of personalizing your wedding invitations by adding a photo or certain personal symbol; you have the alternative to make the wedding invitation yourself if you have the necessary time and patience and artistic skills or creativity.

In these last decades the invitations for the themed weddings written on a single page or on more than one have gained an increased popularity especially since not all couples could afford spending money on planning a wedding in an exotic location or destination.

The design of the wedding invitations is important because we are living in a society where looks do matter but let us not forget the main purpose of the wedding invitations: to share the information about the wedding day and other small details related to it.

The wording etiquette demands mentioning the name of the bride and groom, the name of the wedding hosts, the name of the wedding location and ceremony and the address with a printed map or directional signs if you find them necessary for your guests or if the location is not familiar and the RSVP. All this information details can be written of a single wedding invitation page or the information for the ceremony can be mentioned on a separate, as well as the reception information and the RSVP.

There are two methods of issuing an invitation: by using a formal language or a non-traditional and informal wording style; should underline the fact that the informal style does not mean the use of an impolite language it’s just that the couple can express in their own words the inviting by using a funny or humorous wording style or by simply adding some favorite verses, quotes or poems.

The wedding hosts are those who have paid for the wedding, usually being the bride’s parents or both families, but sometimes the bride and groom will decide in paying for their own wedding so in this case, it is not necessary to mention the names of the parents.

To receive your replays in time you should also send the invitations in time with minimum six weeks before the planned wedding day.