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Wedding Invitation Wording

TeamWED — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 12:29:19 +0000

Figuring out the proper wedding invitation wording can be a vexing undertaking, especially for those brides and grooms who come from blended families or are hosting the wedding themselves. Overall, though, composing your wedding invitation wording should be a simple enough endeavor when compared to wedding planning duties like creating a seating chart or choosing a wedding dress. Luckily, we’re here to help!

First, all wedding invitation wording will begin with a recitation of the names of the hosts. For brides and grooms with two original parents (i.e., no step-parents or deceased parents) each, all hosting, it will read something like “Mr. and Mrs. Male Parent 1 and Mr. and Mrs. Male Parent 2 request the honour of your presence at the wedding of their children, Bride and Groom.” If everyone possible is paying for a wedding, it could read “Together with their parents, Bride and Groom request the pleasure of your company.” For a complicated blended family that includes a deceased parent, wedding invitation wording might read like so: “Parent 1, Parent 2, and Parent 3 request the honor of your presence at the wedding of Bride to Groom, son of Parent 1, Parent 2, and the late Parent 3.” When it comes to writing names, use full names with middle names and include honorifics.

Next comes the nitty-gritty details, like the date and time and wedding venue. Pretty much everything will be spelled out in full, including numerals. Some brides and grooms buck convention and use numbers in their wedding invitation wording, simply to avoid confusion or even to save space. If you feel more comfortable writing 2 p.m. instead of “two in the afternoon,” no one will look askance at your wedding invitation wording. Make sure you include details like “Reception to follow” if your wedding reception will be held at the same venue as your wedding ceremony or the details of your wedding reception if the venue will not be the same.

For formal wedding invitations, here are some quick tips to remember:

Write out all names in full, including middle names. It is considered proper, however, to omit a middle name rather than use a middle initial for reasons of space or brevity.
Yes, using the British spelling of words like honor and favor is an affectation, but it’s one that people expect to see and it’s perfectly all right. Go ahead and request the honour of your guests’ presence if you like, or use the American spellings if you’d rather. Both are correct.
Outside of A.M., P.M., St. (for Saint), and Mt. for Mount, all words should be spelled out in full. For example, a wedding ceremony might be held on “the third of January at two in the afternoon” at “Thirty-five East End Avenue.”
For wedding ceremonies taking place in a house of worship, use “request the honour of your presence.” For wedding ceremonies taking place in a non-religious setting should say, “request the pleasure of your company.”

What you should not include in your wedding invitation wording is information about your wedding registry or anything along the lines of “adults only.” These are the kind of details the families of the bride and groom should share via word of mouth, though the bride and groom can make it clear that children are not invited to the wedding by addressing their wedding invitations using the full names of the parents without including childrens’ names or “and family.”

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Announcing Your Engagement

TeamWED — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 12:53:33 +0000

There’s no one right way or wrong way to announce an engagement. Call your family, send a mass e-mail to friends, mail out formal engagement announcements, update your Facebook status, send out a tweet, or do all of the above! But so you know, normal engagement announcements can be handwritten letters on nice stationery or cards typeset and printed by a stationery store. These don’t have to be as formal as wedding invitations and can include a picture of you and your spouse-to-be.

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Wedding Invitation Envelope Etiquette

TeamWED — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 12:56:25 +0000

We know, we know… you’re probably focused on getting your wedding invitation wording just right. But your wedding invitation envelopes are almost as important! Take care when addressing your wedding invitation envelopes to avoid offending any of your potential wedding guests. As tempting as it might be to save room and energy by including only one name on the envelope, wedding invitation envelopes must include the names of all adults invited. Children do not need to receive their own wedding invitations, but it can be a nice gesture since most children really enjoy receiving mail addresses to them. Remember, too, to check the spelling of all names and to write legibly to ensure that your wedding invitations reach their intended recipients.

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Engagement Announcements

TeamWED — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:36:37 +0000

As if there wasn’t enough wedding stationery for brides and grooms to worry about, enter the engagement announcement. What’s an engagement announcement, you ask? Simply put, it’s a card or letter mailed out by the bride-to-be or the bride-to-be’s parents (and sometimes by the groom-to-be’s parents) that lets the world know that so-and-so is engaged to be married.

You may be wondering what is wrong with a phone call or an email, and the answer to that is nothing at all. Some couples or their relatives simply prefer to go the old fashioned route and announce the engagement via formal correspondence. Or a postcard… whatever.

If you like the idea of printing (or ordering), packing, and sending engagement announcements, tread carefully for it’s easy to fall into faux pas territory. Make sure that you only send engagement announcements to those people who will also be invited to the wedding, lest you come off looking like you’re a greedy gift grabber. And make sure that your engagement announcement can be differentiated from a wedding invitation so that you and your parents are not fielding calls from confused loved ones wanting to know why their wedding invitation didn’t include any details.

That said, if you know your wedding date, your engagement announcements can double as save-the-date cards. Or your engagement announcements can serve as invitations to your engagement party (which we shall discuss in a different post).

Engagement announcement wording varies considerably depending on who is engaged. If you’re a romantic planning a very feminine and formal wedding, use formal language, but if you’re quirky and think your wedding will be, too, then go nuts with your wording. Anything from “Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Johnson are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Marjorie Johnson, to Samuel Beckett, son of Mr. and Mrs. Farnsworth Beckett” to “Hey, we’re hitched! Finally, right? Stay tuned for wedding details” works, so be as proper or creative as you like when writing your engagement announcements.

Do you need engagement announcements? I wouldn’t say “need,” because so few things associated with weddings are *necessary*. You may want to send out engagement announcements if:

You have lots of friends and relatives who live far away and might not hear about your happy news through the grapevine.
You’re planning an engagement party and want to let people know about your engagement via the invitations.
Your parents would like to let their friends know about your engagement (just make sure they’ll also be invited to the wedding).
You’re thinking of having a very formal wedding and want your whole engagement to be just as formal

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