Wedding Invitation

Wedding Invitation Etiquette is just one of the many aspects of your planning that should not be overlooked. This is sometimes the first time your guests will know of your plans, so to make sure you make a great first impression, follow the simple rules of wedding invitation etiquette.

Save the Date:

• Send out Save the Dates at least 6 months prior to the wedding date.
• Make sure your Save the Date includes the date, time and whereabouts of the wedding. If you’re having a destination wedding, now is the time to mention it.
• Address the envelopes correctly. If you are extending a plus one to a guest, you must indicate that on the Save the Date and stick to it for the invitation. If the guest is divorced, Miss. is the proper prefix.
  
  Invitation:
  Invitations should be more formal than the Save the Date and must include some variation of the following formal wording:
  
  Mr. and Mrs. Tom Smith

request the honour of your presence
at the marriage of their daughter
Jane Smith
to
Jeffrey Matthew
son of
Mr. and Mrs. Adam Matthew
Saturday, the eighth of March two thousand elevenat
two o'clock in the afternoon
Fox Green Country Club
2621 Hunter Avenue
Santa Barbara, California

• Send out Wedding Invitations at least 3 months in advance and request RSVP’s 1 month prior to wedding date.
• When addressing your envelopes for a formal or traditional wedding you should write out each person's name in full. Make sure to include the appropriate titles.
• The inner envelope should spell out quite clearly who is actually invited to attend the ceremony. If the children are invited, their names should be listed on the inner envelope from the oldest to the youngest.
• Your wedding invitations should be hand addressed. If you really don't like the looks of your writing consider hiring a calligrapher.

Co-workers and Weddings

Can’t decide if you want to invite your co-workers to your wedding? This is something that a lot of couples struggle with. Here are a few things to consider before you send out the invitations.

You are under no obligation to invite your co-workers to your wedding. To avoid hurt feelings, make it known to your coworkers that your wedding is going to be limited to family and close friends only. The fact that no one from work is being invited will help everyone from feeling excluded.

If you want to invite some and not others, make sure you are doing it tastefully and keeping wedding talk in the workplace to a minimum.

Want to invite everyone from work? Go for it. If your like most Americans you spend the majority of your waking hours with your co-workers as it is, so why not have them share in your special celebration. In this instance make sure that the plans of your wedding won’t interfere with anyone’s work schedule.