What would be sai on a typical wedding invitation?

Question

I am getting married in September... we are doing it as simple as possible but trying to stay as close to tradition as we can. I bought my dress, simple, staright line ivory dress and I plan on making my own invitations (to save money) but I have no clue as to what it is supposed to say... any ideas?

I'm going to be printing on them myself, so al I'll need to buy is the paper and a calligraphy pen and maybe some ribbon or soemthng to spice it up a bit

Answer 1

We designed our own as well. If you do a search on google, you can find a ton of different ideas on wording, just go with one that suits your wedding. I think about.com had some good ones. Also, check out various wedding invitation sites - you can get great ideas for wording from there. You can spice it up a bit by adding a quote or short poem to the beginning of it. Those too you can find a lot of on the net. Here is what our's said:

An answered prayer he is to me;
My greatest blessing she’ll always be.
And so this day we’ll pledge our love
in front of friends and God above.

The honor of your presence is requested at the marriage of
(Bride's Name) to (Groom's Name)
on June twenty-fourth,
year of our Lord two thousand six
at four-thirty in the afternoon
(Name of Church)
(Address of Churh)

After I got them printed, I spiced up the package a bit by putting together the invitation, reception card, RSVP card and map and wrapping a wide band of burgandy ribbon around them (to match the color scheme of my invitaion). Around that, I wrapped a much smaller band of ivory ribbon to which I tied a little tag of vellum paper on which I had printed the guests names in a calligraphic font. Hope this is somewhat helpful.

Good luck and congratulations on your upcoming wedding.

Answer 2

It really depends on the location of the wedding and the formality. Using the words request the honor of your presence is usually saved for weddings held in a place of worship. Check out Top Wedding Invitations to see all of the different wording suggestions:
http://www.topweddingsites.com/wedding_invitations_announcements.html

Answer 3

I'm getting Married March 31 of this year and I had my future sister-in-law make our Wedding Invitations for us. I don't really see any problems in making our own Invitations. There just like buying the high price ones.

Answer 4

Put whose getting married...the date ....the place ...the city and state and the time of the wedding and where the reception is.
My daughter made her invitations also....they only cost 20 cents each. She got the chocolate brown and cream colored paper at Hobby Lobby when it was on sale. She had the writing on the cream colored paper....used a glue stick and put it on the chocolate brown paper and then tied a hot pink bow on top. They are really nice and best of all cheap. Everybody just throws their invitation away anyway so why pay a fortune for them. Best of luck to you.

Answer 5

Have you called a printing place to price invites? It may seem like you can make them cheaper, but when you add the price of ink plus the fancy paper. It really does add up.
You have to also add the aggravation of getting everything lined up perfect on the paper.

Answer 6

Alot of invitations say:

We request the Honor of your presence at the joining of
Your Full Name
and
His Full Name



Since you mentioned a 'simple, close to tradition' wedding, I would not recommend putting 'Request the Honor of your presence'.....that would sound way too formal for simplicity! I just just simply put:


It would be a great pleasure of your presence as
YOUR FULL NAME
AND
HIS FUL NAME
join together in marriage, etc,etc....



GOOD LUCK BRIDE-TO-BE!

Answer 7

We did our own and it simply said:

Mr. & Mrs. (parents of the bride) cordially invite you to attend the wedding of their daughter, (bride's name), to (groom's name), son of Mr. & Mrs. (parents of the groom) on September ??, Two Thousand and Seven
(Name of Church)
(Address of Church)

Nice and simple. You can go to any number of wedding websites to get wording ideas. Some of the stationary that they sell in the stores will come with a CD, also, that has wording ideas.

Answer 8

Yep go to this site for many different kinds of wordings from traditional to new age, formal to casual.
http://www.verseit.com/VerseIt_VerseChoices.cfm

Best wishes!