In the day of e mail and text message there are more and more people moving away from the conventional way of making contact but this is not the case with weddings. It is still normal to receive traditional wedding invitations and they have not changed in layout a great deal over the decades. It will normally be the brides' parents who invite the guests and so it will be to them that the replies are sent.
When receiving an invitation it is polite to respond as soon as possible to allow for catering arrangements to be made and although the family of the bride will hope that all their invitees can attend it has to be accepted that there will be some who have to decline.
When the wedding invitations are being chosen here will be a number of decisions to be made. They can be modern or traditional and by going to a good company it should be able to have a sample made up so as you can see if it is just what is going to look like. It will be normal for invitation to be a light color so cream, ivory or white are going to be the most popular.
Normally it will be the design that is chosen first and with so many to choose from it may seem difficult to decide which to choose. The easiest thing will be split them into categories and decide which is your favorite. Some will be modern and have trendy characters and sometimes the wedding venue which may not always be a religious location. Others will be traditional wedding invitations and will have rings and champagne glasses.
Once they have been selected it will be time to decide what is to go inside. Here it will be possible to write your own personal remarks but by nature, traditional wedding invitations will have the sort of wording that has gone out for many years and will be quite conservative. This will be normally be along the lines of
Mr and Mrs Jones request the company of
___________________________
At the wedding of their daughter
Helen to Mr David Anderson
At
St Nathanial's Church, Lower Addington
On July 23rd 2012
R.S.V.P.
16 Lower Lane, Lower Addington
It there is indecision about what exactly to have in the invitation then the stationer will have plenty of samples that will give an idea of the usual wording. If you want a special feature such as a photograph of the couple or the church then this can be arranged. It needs to be remembered that the more detail on the invitation the more expensive it will be. It may not be the sort of occasion when there are corners cut so the majority of the invitations will be made out of good quality card and can be printed in a variety of fonts.
There will be envelopes provided with the invitation and it is also possible to have reply slips included meaning that the guests do not even have to buy their own return card.
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