One of the most frequently asked questions about wedding invitations is how to write them. How best to word the invitations, what is the correct order, how should you address them, and who should be put on the invitations depending on who is contributing to the wedding.

There are several key things that need to be included on all invitations, these are:

• The hosts – name who is hosting the wedding. This is usually the parents of the bride and groom. If one set of parents are not contributing financially to the wedding it is at your discretion as to whether to include their names on the invitation or not, but usually done in any case to avoid problems.
• Name the invitees – write the names of who is invited. If you are not wanting children at your wedding or reception then only include the names of the parents, or reversed include the childrens names if they are also invited. It is deemed courtesy to add a note explaining why you are not inviting the children if that is the case, or simply add Adult only reception for example. Most people will understand this for the reason being to keep the numbers down.
• The bride and groom – name the bride and groom. Usually the names are written in full including middle names however this is optional.
• Dates – detail the day, month, year and time the wedding will start and details of the reception as well.
• Location – state where the wedding and reception will take place.
• RSVP – show details of how to the person can RSVP to the invitation

How should the wedding invitations be written?

Most often wedding invitations are written in the third person, this is the more formal way of presenting the wedding on the invitation. There is the other less formal option where the wording is a lot more modern and considered a more friendly approach oppose to the traditional wedding invitations style. For example:

A traditional wedding invitation may start:

Mr. and Mrs. Johnson request the pleasure of …..

A less formal wedding invitation may look something like this:

Mr. and Mrs. Johnson would like you to join them on ….

Decide for yourselves how you would like the overall style of the invitation to be, if the whole wedding is formal and traditional continue this approach in the wording on the invitations, or if you are having a more modern style use the less formal technique.