Wedding Invitations Wording

Sample Wedding Invitations Wording you could use

The wording of your wedding invitations is your first chance to make an impression on your potential guests. Well the card makes the first impression even if it's not one of those Carlson Craft invitations. Chances are they'll read it again and agian. After all, it's a wedding and most people are happy to be invited to share this moment.

There are two basic ways of wording wedding invitations: traditional and contemporary.

Traditional wedding invitations wording and structure

The general layout would look something like this:

Parents of bride
request the honour of your presence
at the marriage of their daughter
daughter's name
to
Name of Groom
Day and Date
Time of Ceremony
Location of Ceremony

If you would like to include information about your reception on the same invitation card then you would also add the following to the above.

reception to follow
Location of Reception

Request for a response to the invite.

So your family isn't as traditional as others, what do you do then? There are ways to alter traditional invitations to reflect special situation such as parental divorces, remarriages, and cohosting by different sets of parents.

Here is an example of a traditional wedding invitation for regular situations:

Mr. and Mrs. John Brown
requests the honour of your presence
at the marriage of their daughter
Mary Brown
to
Mr. Paul Smith
Sunday, the twentieth of November
Two thousand and one
at three thirty
Sixty six Clive Ave
Manhattan, New York
Reception
immediately following the ceremony
Pleasure Cove Restaurant

There are different ways to request a reply from your guests. The most commonly used is R.S.V.P. You may also use "The favor of a reply is requested" or "Please respond" or "Please R.S.V.P.".

A traditional wedding invitation may look something like the following for a non-traditional family. In this case the bride's parents are divorced and have remarried:

Mr. and Mrs. John Brown
and
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Dennis
requests the honour of your presence
at the marriage of their daughter
Mary Brown
to
Mr. Paul Smith
Friday, the tenth of May
Nineteen hundred and ninety six
at five o'clock
Clarkson Avenue Baptist Church
Queens, New York
Reception
immediately following the ceremony
Marriott Hotel

For those who are less traditional a more contemporary wedding invitation wording might suffice. Here is an example for a wedding hosted by the parents of the bride:

William and Joycelyn Smith
invite you to join us
as we joyously celebrate the union
of our daughter Jane to Timothy Taylor
at six o'clock
Saturday, the sixteenth of June
Clarkson Avenue Baptist Church
Queens, New York

These are just a few suggestions for how your wedding invitations could be worded. If you choose a contemporary invitation you may have more freedom to change the wording to express your feelings about the occasion.