Names on Wedding Invitation by Aktivart and Design

Planning Your Stationery Pieces

Planning the wording for your wedding stationery is not a daunting task if you follow the sections in this Wording Workshop. It will guide you through selecting the essential information for your invitation (below), reply card, accommodation card, and favour tags. This workshop is a thorough guide to help compose your complete wording specific to your wedding.


Thoughts on Your Invitation Wording

For your invitation wording, there are 3 sections to consider:
Names on invitation
Inviting line
Date, time, place, Reception

Example:
(Part 1: Names on invitation)
Mr. and Mrs. Victor and Julia Bride
together with
Mr. and Mrs. Ted and Josie Groom

(Part 2: inviting line)
request the honour of your presence
at the marriage of their children
BRIDE AND GROOM

(Part 3: Date, time, place, Reception)
on Saturday, the sixth day of November
two thousand and twenty-one
at one o'clock in the afternoon
St. Stanislaus Kostka Catholic Church
12 Denison Avenue, Toronto, Ontario

Reception to follow at five o'clock
Markland Wood Golf and Country Club
245 Markland Drive, Etobicoke, Ontario


Decide first, if your wedding is more formal or casual. Keep in mind that in western cultures BRIDE GOES FIRST.
Consider if you like the wording grammatically in the first person (we, us, our) or third person (they, them, their)
The wedding style will influence the style of your wording:

Formal style:

  • Include Mr. and Mrs. for the parents' names
  • Inviting line is formal, particularly for church ceremonies
  • Write out the date and times in full words

Example:
Mr. and Mrs. Victor and Julia Bride
together with
Mr. and Mrs. Ted and Josie Groom
request the honour of your presence
at the marriage of their children
BRIDE AND GROOM
on Saturday, the sixth day of November
two thousand and twenty-one
At one o'clock in the afternoon

Casual style:

  • Can exclude Mr. and Mrs. titles for the parents' names--then the ladies are named first

  • Casual inviting line

  • Show the date and times in "alpha numeric" i.e. not written in full words


Example:
Julia and Victor Bride
along with
Josie and Ted Groom
request the pleasure of your company
at the marriage of their children
BRIDE AND GROOM
on Saturday, November 6, 2021 at 1:00 p.m.

You are ready to proceed to Names on Invitation.