Planning for a wedding involves much time and energy from organizing the guest lists to planning the wedding invitations, there are millions of jobs to do and so little time. Luckily you’re not organizing this event on your own and you have the support of your loving partner, family and friends to help you get things done. Once the important components of the wedding are booked and organized the next task is organizing the wedding invitations. The wedding invitation plays an important role in setting the theme and mood of the event and they also include important information about the big day. To help with your wedding planning there are many etiquette rules available.

For some guests the wedding invitation is the first piece of information they’ll receive about the wedding so it’s important their properly designed. To ensure your big day runs smoothly it’s important that your wedding invitations are correct put together. I’ve put together a wedding invitation etiquette list that should assist with your planning. The part of the invitation that gets most people wound up involves the wording. It’s important you get the wording on the wedding invitations correct. Stay away from slang terms and remember you’re targeting a large demographic spread, so pick appropriate language. Make sure you specify if a single guest is allowed to bring someone. You simply do this by listing the guests name and the words ‘and guest’.  Allow 6 to 8 weeks to mail out the wedding invitations, this will ensure you have plenty of time to receive responses and answer questions. If you are one of the lucky ones and you’re planning a destination wedding it’s important that you mail out the invitations even earlier. Also make sure you mail out all the wedding invitations at the same time. This will ensure they all arrive at similar times and it’s also easier to track things if they go missing. All wedding invitation envelopes must be handwritten definitely don’t use pre printed labels. Unfortunately you may experience a sore wrist after you’ve handwritten 150 to 200 envelopes but the end result is worth it. If you’re having a small ceremony but a larger reception you will have to make up reception invitation cards for the guests that only attending the reception. It’s important to work-out beforehand if you want children attending the reception. If you end up not wanting kids present at the wedding it’s important not to write on the invitation ‘no children’ but, subtlety advise the family directly. Most cases parents will bring children to the ceremony but arrange for a babysitter to mind them while they’re at the reception.

By: James G Coleman

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