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What to Include With Wedding Invitations
By Rhonda Erdey

Wedding invitations is one of the most important decisions that a bride and groom need to make when planning their wedding.

Wedding invitations are often the first contact made between the bride and groom and their guests. This makes it important to make sure that all of the necessary items are included.

The first consideration is obviously the wedding invitations themselves. These should include the day, date, time and location of the wedding.

It should also include the names of the bride and groom and the names of whoever is hosting the wedding if different than the bride and groom.

If there is a reception following the ceremony, then this location should be included as well.

The wedding invitations should match the overall tone and colour scheme of the wedding. This will alert the guests as to what to expect at the wedding, whether it is a formal or casual affair.

It is imperative to include reply cards within the envelope. This is just as important as the wedding invitations. This card will need to have spaces that the guest can use to fill in their name, whether or not they are attending the wedding, and the number of people who will be attending in their party.

These reply cards should have a self-addressed, stamped envelope included for the guests to return. These reply cards are imperative to include with the wedding invitations.

Wedding invitations should also include information for out of town guests who will need to make travel arrangements for the wedding. The bride and groom should make sure to book a block of rooms at a local hotel.

The hotel will likely give a discount. This information should then be included with the wedding invitations so that guests can take advantage of the lower rate as well as book their trip in advance.

The wedding invitations may need to include information about the reception if it is at a different location than the ceremony or at a later time. This would include the location of the reception, time, and directions to the reception site. This does not need to be anything as fancy as the wedding invitations, but is necessary for guests to have this information prior to the wedding.

There are special extras that can be included with wedding invitations in order to make them more elegant and appealing. This includes the traditional piece of tissue paper overlay on top of the wedding invitations or other embellishments. These additional touches will complete the look of the invitations and envelopes.

Wedding invitations are a lot of fun to choose. It is at this time that many brides and grooms really feel connected and reality of the wedding sets in. It becomes truly exciting

Wedding Invitations are basic to the wedding planning. Sally has come up with some creative Ideas for great Wedding Invitations

To My Bridesmaid Gifts from the Heart Poetry Card

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We bet you thought it would
never happen…

If
you would like a formal style to the wording you could use something like this:

The honour of your presence is
requested

As a new Christian family is
born,

Susan Jill Smith

And

James Robert Jones

Will Unite in Holy Matrimony

With dedication to our children

On Saturday, July Twenty First

Two Thousand and Eight

At

First Christian Church

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Small home wedding with only members of the immediate families present, and whatever decorations, music, and refreshments seem suitable. Such a wedding is the least expensive in time and money, and can follow the individual wishes of the couple more freely than other types.

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Informal chapel wedding to which only immediate relatives and close friends are invited/with the couple receiving their guests in the foyer or garden following the ceremony. Although there may be no reception as such, the immediate wedding party may go somewhere for a wedding breakfast afterwards if they wish.This type of wedding can be easily arranged, kept as simple as the couple desires, is inexpensive, and can be quite lovely.

One modification of this is for the wedding to take place following a regular service in the bride’s church, to which the guests come as soon as the previous service is over. This is convenient for organist, minister, and many guests. The altar is already decorated, and extra arrangements are kept to a minimum.

Small wedding in church, home, or garden to which members of the two families and friends are invited, followed by a reception, that may include a longer guest list, if desired. The reception may take place in the church parlors, in the home, a garden, or in some other suitable place nearby.

The longer guest list may be for the ceremony itself with only a few chosen friends and family members invited to the reception that follows in another place. When the reception is held at the place of the ceremony, all those attending the ceremony are invited to the reception as well.

The home, garden, or club wedding and reception for everyone in the same location. In this type of wedding there is a flow from the ceremony to the receiving line to the refreshment tables with all guests participating. This may be an elaborate affair of The Father of the Bride variety, or it may be a simple ceremony under the trees in the yard or at an altar improvised inside.

A sit-down wedding breakfast, a buffet supper, or simple refreshments of the stand-up sort, around whatever menu is appropriate, is chosen depending upon the number of guests, the accommodations, personnel to serve, and of course the budget.

Whom to Invite and How To Word The Informal Wedding Invitations

It is usual for the family of the bride to invite the guests to the wedding. As soon as the decision has been made as to the type of wedding it will be, the bride and her family, in consultation with the groom and his parents, make out the list of persons to be invited.

If the wedding s to be a small home or garden affair, with only members of the immediate families present, the matter is a simple one except in problems of close relatives by blood or marriage who have been cut off from the family by distance, divorce, or estrangement.

It is wise to invite all such family members as is at all possible. To exclude them from such an important occasion is often to widen the breach and to make for feelings of guilt and uneasiness among those present.

Whether or not they are included, the decision should be the joint responsibility of all the family members planning the wedding.

Members of the immediate family and close friends may be invited to the small home, garden or informal chapel wedding, personally by the bride or her mother, by word of mouth, telephone, or informal note, whichever is most convenient. In this case, announcements of the wedding are sent to all other relatives and friends as soon as the ceremony has been performed.

Mr. and Mrs. Henry Banning

will give in marriage

their daughter

Margaret

to

Mr. Arthur Frank Warner

Monday afternoon June the sixth

Nineteen hundred and nine

at half past four o’clock

In The Garden of the Brides Parents

or

Because you have shared in our lives
with your Friendship and Love, We
Loveley Girl Smith

and
Wonderful Guy Jones
ask you to join us for an garden ceremony
to celebrate our Love
on Saturday, the fifth of April
two thousand and eight
at four in the afternoon
Riverside Garden

5555 Central Avenue
Anywhere, Montana

What is so much fun about these types of Informal Garden Wedding Invitation Wording is that you really have so much leeway. Let your creative spirit shine through!

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Wording for small – intimate wedding invitations can be different than invitations for large formal weddings. The wedding may not be a casual affair… but you are just inviting friends and family.

Did you know that you can send a more personalized invitation that will set the “mood” for all the guests you are inviting.

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The informal home or garden wedding is one to which only the immediate family and close friends are invited. These “quiet” weddings generally take place when there has been a recent death in the family, or merely from a preference for a
small affair.

For this type of small intimate wedding invitation, a short note can be written… generally by the bride as:

My dear Mrs. Blank,

You have been so important in my life

Sharing your Friendship and Love

Liza Marie Lovelygirl

and

Manny Isa Greatguy

ask you to join us for an outdoor ceremony

celebrating our future life together.

We are asking only a very few of our friends to be
present and would be so glad to have you and
Mr. Blank here on that day.

Mr. Greatguy and I are to be married at

The Botanical Beachside Garden

Saturday, June the tenth, at 10 o’clock.

Yours very sincerely,

See… it’s easy to have Short… Wording for small – intimate wedding invitations.

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