Addressing Wedding Invitations

About Addressing Wedding Invitations

You can play with the design and wording of your invitation but there is one area where sticking to "the rules" is best.

The traditional way of addressing wedding invitations lets everyone know exactly who is invited.

One place where you can "break the rules" is the inclusion of inner envelopes, many couples who are doing their own invitations, as well as those who have their invitations professionally made are omitting the inner envelope to save money and time.

A married couple - Mr. and Mrs. John White, many modern brides prefer to use….John and Nancy White. If the wife chose to keep her family name address the invitation to John White and Mary Brown.

If you are using the inner envelope address the outer envelope to Mr. and Mrs. White. If children re invited the inner envelope should list the children in order of age: Mr. and Mrs. White, Jacob, Peter, Sara. Children over the age of 18 should each receive their own invitation.

When the wife has a professional title her name goes first: Dr. Linda Jones and Mr. Michael Jones. When one member of the couple is a judge, that person goes first on the envelope, eg: The Honorable William Borders and Mrs. Borders.

A married couple, that are both doctors, outer envelope: The Doctors Harris or Drs. John and Nancy Harris. The inner envelope should be addressed to the Doctors Brown.

If two of your best friends from college are roommates the outer envelope should read Miss Kathy Quinn and Miss Aliya Cortez and the inner Ms. Quinn and Ms. Cortez. Or better yet send them each a separate invitation with and friend added.

Invitations to members of the clergy should list the title first and then the person’s full name like Rabbi Joel Feldman, Father William Kelly or Reverend Harry Block on the outer envelope. Father Kelly, Rabbi Feldman, or Reverend Block on the inner envelope.

Traditional etiquette says that nothing should be abbreviated except Mr., Mrs., Dr., Jr., Ms. However with the automated postal system your invitations could be delayed if you don’t abbreviate state names, or words like street, boulevard or avenue.

As you can see addressing wedding invitations isn’t difficult once you understand a few basic rules.

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