Wedding Invitation Etiquette Should Shine
Fellow wedding planners should know the rules of wedding invitation etiquette.
We are not mentioning style – but the correct way to write the words to invite a person to your client’s wedding. Whether you sell invitations or not, your wedding clients look to us as the source of knowledge on all things wedding.
Invitation etiquette is covered very well in the lesson in the Professional Wedding Planner Program available from the Association of Bridal Consultants. The specifics are found in the fourth lesson, “Wedding Etiquette”.
The following are a few pointers and rules to help you:
Do not use nick names. Use Thomas not Tom or Robert not Bob
Spell out all things that might be common abbreviations. For instance, Illinois, Street, Doctor
When a wedding is in a house of worship, the correct terminology is “honour of your presence” and when in some other place the wording is “pleasure of your company”.
It is common to use the year in which the wedding will take place: Two thousand nineteen
City and state should be spelled out
Zip codes are never used in the text of the wedding invitation or accessory cards; only on the return address for the flap and the address for the reply envelope
To specify a time that would be the half hour – use half after six o’clock not half past
If the wedding ceremony are in two different locations, it is necessary to use a separate card for the reception information
Gift choices and registry are never mentioned to use correct wedding invitation etiquette
