Hopefully by now you will have chosen your perfect invites,
so now all you need to do is decide what to say on them! The
wording and font style is completely up to you... it can be as
formal or as contemporary as you want... there are no hard
and fast rules these days!
Invitations are almost always sent from whoever is hosting the
wedding — traditionally the bride’s parents. The wording starts
to get more complicated if parents are divorced etc; these days a
more modern approach is to word invites as though you are hosting
the event yourselves.
Have a look at these examples below to get an idea... if you need
any more help with wording your invitations, just contact us with all the details and we will be happy to compose it for you!
the bride’s parents as hosts
both sets of parents as hosts
you’re hosting your own wedding
you with both sets of parents
a single parent
a divorced parent with their spouse/bride or groom’s step parent
jointly hosted by divorced parents
informal wording — this can be adapted to suit any of the above
Other things that you can include on your invtations are:
• The details of any dress code/theme — eg black tie
• The time guests can expect the day to come to an end
— carriages at midnight...
• Whether children are invited — this last one can sometimes be a little tricky. If you are inviting children, make this clear by including their names on their parents’ invitation. Guests generally assume that the invitation is soley for them if their children’s names are not included.
If you’re still worried that your guests may not take the hint, you can also include a short note to parents, such as: ‘We are sorry but we are unable to accommodate children’ or ‘Much as we would like to extend the invitation to the children of all our friends, it is only possible to accommodate the children of close family’.
Equally, if you are inviting children, let parents know if you have arranged for childcare ‘We have arranged child-minding facilities for the duration of the service and/or reception’.
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An invitation's typeface can really set the mood for the event that it's announcing! All of our stationery has been very carefully designed and the fonts used are thought to be the best for the job. But if you'd prefer something different, we can customise your design with the font styles shown below — please let us know when ordering.
traditional engraved
traditional italic
traditional serif
contemporary
handwritten font
baby range
complementary fonts
