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Wedding Invitations

Your wedding invitation sets the mood and style of your wedding. You should coordinate your invitations to complement the color or theme of your wedding and the style of attire of the wedding party. Formal wedding invitations are usually ordered well in advance (a minimum of three months) to allow time to be addressed and mailed six weeks before the wedding. Invitations are usually written in the third person. Your invitiation professional or printer can help you with formal wording. Also, be sure to proof everything carefully.

Be sure to order enough invitations. You’ll need one for every married couple, each single adult guest, each attendant, your attendants’ dates (if single), everyone in the groom’s family, and your clergyman and their guest. Also order additional invitations for emergencies and keepsakes. Extra envelopes are a must! This allows for mistakes made when addressing. Be sure to order response cards (R.S.V.P.) and matching envelopes. Response card envelopes should be pre-addressed and stamped for the convenience of your guests.

There are several types of enclosure cards you may wish to send, alerting guests to special arrangements. Reception Cards: to limit the number of guests invited to the reception. Ceremony Cards: to invite a limited number of guests to the ceremony. Pew Cards: for special seating for friends and relatives.

Address envelopes by hand or calligraphy, using full names. If a guest or additional family member(s) are invited, they are indicated on the inner envelope only. The invitation is inserted into the inner envelope with the enclosure cards and printed side facing the back flap. Insert the inner envelope into the addressed envelope.

Finally, be sure to order Thank You notes… and send them out within one or two months after your wedding. Dear Abby is deluged with complaints about brides who don’t send these most important expressions of gratitude.

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