These are just a few tips for basic wedding invitation etiquette:

Wedding invitations are issued first in the name of the bride’s parents, or in the name of the surviving parent.

In cases of death or divorce, the remaining parent’s name alone is correct.

When the bride is a mature woman long out of her parental home, she may announce her own marriage quite properly.

Church and Receptions Addresses for the Invitations

Names of streets are never abbreviated, and addresses are not given in numerals.
The numbers are written out like you write a check dollar amount.

Church Of Christ
Thirty Seven Seventy Four East Phaedra Lane
Small Town, Alabama

On the wedding invitation, you do state the address of the church along with the church name and city.

Include a map to the church as well as to the reception in the invitations for out of town guests.
You can do this by looking up on Google or map quest the directions and make your own direction cards to insert into the invitations. Use a post card size as these fit 4 to a page and a printer can cut them for you.

Include step by step instructions from the hotel to the church and a phone number where someone local can be reached on the wedding day. Include landmarks and notes to personalize it even further.

Don’t include a wedding website you may have set up… this still is not considered proper etiquette.

A note on R.S.V.P cards or notices in invitations:

Unless you put R.S.V.P. on the invitations to your wedding and reception, your guests are under no obligation to reply.
If you need to know the number of guests expected, be sure to indicate on the invitation that a reply is expected; include the address to which the reply is to be sent.

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