Wedding Invitations

Wording For Wedding Invitation Reply Cards

The wedding day is that special day when you start a new life beside the one you love the most; it’s not strange to want to share this kind of happiness with close friends and relatives. This is precisely the purpose of the wedding invitations: to announce this special moment.

Before choosing a wedding invitation design you might want to know some basic things about these sort of invitations and what information should they contain.

You would probably find it very difficult to choose only one design for your wedding just because they come in a wide variety of patterns, colors or color combinations, sizes, shapes. The wedding invitation can either be hand-written, being quite an expensive option, printed or engraved; thermography with its beautiful raised letter effect is the most popular method of printing the invitations because it is cheap and fast.

The invitation should contain pertinent information about the wedding, either if we are talking about the traditional or informal language: the name of the bride and the name of the groom, the names of the wedding hosts could be mentioned or not, it’s up to the preferences of the future married couple.

Other informational details are about the location of the wedding ceremony, sometimes you can add a printed map with some directional signs, the date and the time. You might as well add information about the after-party or reception, make a suggestion about how should your guests dress if you are having a theme party, or just give them a hint about what they should expect from the whole wedding party.

If the attendance responses are needed add the RSVP on the invitation card, at the bottom, or on a separate one, usually known as a reply card.

Before sealing the invitations in their single or double envelopes, make sure to read the written text with fresh eyes to spot some spelling mistakes or addressing errors that might cause some future embarrassments. Try to mail the wedding invitations on recommended time, usually being with minimum six to eight weeks in advance, before the actual wedding day.

This is the general information about the wedding invitation but what really interests us in this article are the reply cards, more precisely the wording used for the reply cards.

As I’ve mentioned above, if you are waiting for an attendance response don’t forget to add the RSVP on the wedding card in the form of a phone number or on a separate card, this also being the response card. You can leave it blank or write something like the examples presented bellow.

“We look forward to seeing you in Madrid…Please respond on or before March 20, 2010.

M_______________________
_____Wouldn’t miss it! Number attending_____
_____Not able to make it, but we’ll be thinking of you…”

“The favour of reply is requested
on or before March 20, 2010.

M_________________
_____persons will not attend
____Filet Mignon ____Grilled Filet of Salmon”

“We look forward to
celebrating with you!
Kindly respond on or before
March 20, 2010
M___________________
____Accepts ____Regrets”

“Please respond on or before
March 20, 2010
M___________________
____wouldn’t miss it
____can’t make it
A special note for the newlyweds: ……. “

The wording examples for the reply cards are many and you can also use your creativity and issue the invitations using your own words.

The abbreviation of RSVP comes from the French expression “répondez s’il vous plait”, translated as “please reply” or “please respond” but if you are waiting only for the answers of guests who may not attend the wedding you can add the saying “Regrets only” and a phone number.

Also, remember that the return address for the reply cards is that of the bride’s parents, usually acting as the wedding hosts because they are the ones to pay the wedding. The wedding invitations are sent or mailed out only by the bride and her family side.

These should be the most important tips you have to remember about the wording for the reply cards.