Your Wedding Invitations

The traditional wedding
invitation has changed
little over the years. Its
essential purpose is to
invite your guests and to
tell them where and when your wedding
is being held. Most other information is
superfluous. It’s that simplicity, coupled with
fine paper and distinctive engraving, that makes
formal wedding invitations so elegant. There are
a number of basic points of etiquette to follow
when wording a traditional wedding invitation.
For instance, the Groom's name.

The groom always uses his full name, preceded
by his title. There are no abbreviations, except for
"Mr." All other titles, such as "Doctor" and
“Reverend" should be written out, although "Doctor"
may be abbreviated when used with a long name.

Initials should not appear on formal wedding invitations.
Men who dislike their middle names and use their middle
initial instead should be discouraged from doing so.
If your fiancé refuses to use his middle name, it’s better to
omit his middle name entirely than to use just his initial.


Assembling the Invitations

Your wedding invitations may arrive already stuffed into
their inner envelopes or in separate stacks of invitations,
enclosure cards, and inner and outer envelopes. If yours
come unassembled, there’s no need to panic. Assembling
wedding invitations is really quite simple, although a bit
time-consuming.

For the most part, wedding invitations are assembled in
size order. The invitation itself is first. The enclosure cards
are stacked on top of the invitations, not inside. The reception
card is placed on top of the invitation. Then the reply envelope
is placed face down on the reception card. The reply card is
slipped face up beneath the flap of the reply envelope. These
are the most frequently used enclosures.

Any other enclosures are added face up in size order
(usually at-home card, directions card, accommodation card,
pew card, etc.). The single-fold invitation and its enclosures
are placed into the inside envelope with the fold of the
invitation at the bottom of the envelope and the engraving facing
the back of the envelope. You can tell whether or not you stuffed
the envelope correctly by removing the invitation with your right
hand. If you can read the invitation without turning it,
it was stuffed correctly.

The procedure for assembling traditional invitations (those
with a second fold) is similar. The enclosures are placed on
top of the lower half of the invitation's face in the same order
described above. The invitation is folded from top to bottom
over the enclosures. The invitation is then placed into the
inside envelope with the fold toward the bottom of the envelope.
As with other invitations, traditional invitations are correctly
stuffed when they can be read without being turned after being
removed from the envelope with your right hand.

Once stuffed, the inside envelopes are inserted into the
outside envelopes. The front of the inside envelope faces
the back of the outside envelope.


For more information, or to order your Wedding Invitations
contact Cynthia at
www.ALegendaryAffair.com