Helpful Tips for Proper Wedding Invitations

Proper Etiquette for Wedding Invitations

If your wedding will be a formal affair there are certain rules of proper etiquette for wedding invitations that you will want to follow.

This provides your guests with information they need to choose their outfits for the affair.

• Names are written out in full, for example use Mr. James Anthony Smith, not James A. Smith. Omit the middle name altogether rather than using an initial.

• Feel free to use either the British spelling of words like “honour and favour” or the American spelling “honor and favor”.

• Spell out all words including hour, date and year.

• Spell out words in the address such as street, road and avenue. However it isn’t necessary to spell out Saint (St.) or Mount (Mt.).

• Roman numerals are used in names such as IV instead of the fourth.

• If your wedding will take place in a house of worship, “requests the honour of your presence“.

• Wedding in a non-religious venue can use “request the pleasure of your company”.

Formal wedding invitations are usually printed in black ink with a script or engraved font appearance and generally on cream or white cardstock.

There are so many different types of families nowadays that etiquette specialists have had to come up with new wording for wedding invitations.

There is the traditional wording for when the bride’s family is hosting or both sets of parents are jointly throwing the wedding, or when the couple are hosting the affair themselves. Now you have mother and stepfather, father and stepmother. The groom’s family may host. New etiquette had to be created for same sex marriages.

If a widowed parent is hosting the invitation can read “the daughter of Mary Jones and the late Robert Jones”. This is especially significant if the death of the parent was recent. There are many websites where you can find the proper etiquette for wedding invitations and sample wording.

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