A Guide To Bridal Invitation Wording

You can convey your personal style and personality with the wedding stationery and invitations you select. Likewise, the words printed on the stationery set the mood for your upcoming wedding, giving your guests a glimpse into the style and atmosphere you plan to create for your special day. Once you've selected your bridal invitations, the next most important task is crafting the bridal invitation wording. Use these tips to help you create the perfect wedding and bridal shower invitation wording.

Getting Started

The way in which you craft your wedding invitation wording depends partly upon whom is hosting the wedding, as well as your wedding style. Will your wedding be formal, informal, traditional or modern?Whether you are hosting the wedding yourselves or one, two or more parents are hosting, use the hosts as the starting point for the remainder of the details while keeping in mind the wedding style. These examples can help you get started.

• Formal wedding hosted by bride's parents: "Mr. and Mrs. Carl Rodgers request the honor of your presence at the marriage of their daughter to...".

• You can have more freedom and a more relaxed take with the same wording in an informal wedding: "Mr. and Mrs. Carl Rodgers would be honored to have you share in the joy of their daughter's marriage to...".

• Use more creativity for wedding invitation wording for a modern style, hosted by yourselves: "We invite you to share in the celebration as we join together with the one who makes us laugh, the one we dream with, live for and dearly love...".

It's All in the Details

The style of writing you used for the wedding invitation wording does or does not have be similar to the shower invitation wording. But once you've determined the style as well as who's hosting, it's time to make sure all the important details are there. Include all these lines on your invitations to ensure your guest have all the information they need:

• Host line
• Request line
• Bride and groom names line
• Wedding date and time lines
• Wedding location line
• Reception location line
• RSVP line

But Most Importantly...

While it's important to observe etiquette when creating your bridal invitation wording, it's equally important to ensure the wording reflects you and your wedding, and leaves you feeling happy every time you read your wedding invitation. Although your guests will love getting the invitations, you will be the one to save the invitation and treasure it all through the years. Custom invitations are only the foundation for your wedding invitations but the people and the words they are about is why they are special.