Wedding Invitations

No, wedding invitations are not just a pretty piece of paper, but a necessary reference for your wedding guests.

You now have your wedding gown on order, decided where the wedding and the reception is to take place, the wedding cake design and baker has been selected, and the guest list has been pared ruthlessly as you strive to be realistic about your wedding budget.

Now, take some time to think about your wedding invitations.

Complete Information

A properly formatted wedding invitation provides all of the details about the upcoming wedding that the guest will need to know.

Upon receipt of theirs, no guest should have a question about what it is that they are expected to do on the big day.

For some weddings only basic information is needed. Other, more elaborate weddings, will need many more details.

Please understand that we're not talking about how the wedding invitations look in this article.

Taste is very much individual. It's how the wedding invitation provides information that is so important.

Here are some examples:

Wedding One

Harriet and Tom are having a small wedding of about 30 guests. The wedding ceremony will be held in the chapel of the reception hall.

The wedding reception, including dinner, will be held immediately after the ceremony, at the same venue.

Harriet and Tom's guests all live in the same town where the wedding is to be held.

Their wedding invitation can be quite basic, something like what follows.

Harriet Smith along with Tom Terrific
together with their parents
invite you to attend the celebration of their marriage

on Saturday, June 14, 2010
at 4:00 p.m.
at Name Of The Hall
44 Name Of Street
City, State

Wine and cheese will be served immediately after the ceremony
also at Name Of The Hall

Buffet dinner will be served at 6:00 p.m.
Dancing to follow
Cash bar

Please RSVP by May 8, 2010

The only additional items needed for this invitation are a reply card, a stamped, self-addressed envelope (though some folks are opting only for an RSVP email address these days) so the guests can easily respond to this invitation, as well as a map to the venue from the major roads in their town.