design your own wedding, wedding invitation language

design your own wedding

Personalize your DIY invitations with a unique motif that says something about your wedding. If you are having a classic elegant wedding and wearing a traditional wedding gown and jewelry, an elaborate monogram would be the ideal way to dress up your station. Either create it yourself by hand or in Photoshop, or find a local artist on a site like Craigslist to design your monogram. Ask them to save it as a jpeg file, and then you can easily insert it into your invitation template. The same goes for any image or motif you may choose, whether it is a pair of crossed golf clubs for the sporty couple, a sketch of your dog, a photo of the bride and groom, or a brightly colored tropical flower for a beach wedding.

wedding invitation language

Please note that the names of the bride's parents on the invitations indicate that they are the hosts, not that they are paying for every last item, from soup to nuts to wedding jewelry. In these times when the groom's parents take a more active role in the wedding (financial or not), the couple may wish to include their names as well. This is done in the European fashion, with the lines added under the groom's name: Mr. Charles Young / son of / Mr. and Mrs. Davis Young.

If there are too many assorted sets of parents to fit on one invitation, the bride and groom are the hosts, or it is the bride's second wedding, the names of the hosts are omitted. The invitation is issued in the third person like this: The pleasure of your company / is requested at / the marriage of / etc. etc. The rest remains the same. Also note that the R.s.v.p. is tied to the reception invitation, not the ceremony invitation. The form "R.s.v.p. tends to be more popular in the North, and in the South, the term "The favour of a reply is requested" tends to be preferred, but both are equally correct.