Wedding Invitations Wordings

Is there a proper wedding invitation wording? Basically for some experts in invitation-making, they follow some sort of wedding invitation etiquette and proper wordings. They consider some factors like if the wedding is a non-traditional way or the traditional one. A traditional wedding invitation is more formal than the non-traditional wedding invitations and this is the part where people struggle the most.

In our case, we are the hosts of our wedding and in some ways a little confusion on whose name would come first, is it the grooms name or the bride’s name? In proper wedding etiquette as far as I have researched, it’s always the brides name comes first but that I think only applies in foreign countries where they have different culture in terms of weddings. In most cases to them, the bride or the brides parents usually pays for the wedding, thus, in their wedding invitations the name of the bride comes first or the name of the parents, depending on who are hosting the wedding.

To get some ideas on how to write our wedding invitation wording, I’ve tried to compare some old wedding invitations that we have received and we come up our wedding invitation wording after a few try of making one. This is our wedding invitation wordings;

We,
Grooms Name
and
Brides Name
along with our parents,
Mr. Rogelio M. Macuha & Mrs. Angelita A. Macuha
and
Mr. Ernesto E. Mojana & Mrs. Nonita G. Mojana
invite you to share with us the beginning of our new life
as we bind ourselves together in Marriage
on Friday, the eighth day of August, Two thousand eight
at nine o’clock in the morning,
to be solemnized at Iglesia Ni Cristo, House of Worship
Locale of Matina, Davao City.

A social gathering of family, relatives and friends will follow at
Sunny Point Function Plaza, Clarissa Hall,
Maa Road, Davao City

The grooms name comes first since he’s the one paying for the wedding and of course he’ll be the head of the family so it’s proper enough that the groom should take the leadership. As for me, it depends on the couple how they would agree to who comes first and who comes last in their wedding invitations wording. For me, I find it not proper to have the brides name first in the list than the grooms’ name. That is just my opinion.

Personalized Wedding Invitations

Preparations for our wedding are almost done. We have a month now to check the things that we still need to complete. Our wedding invitations are now 80% complete. We've decided to create our own invitations for practical reasons. Ready made invitations are so expensive yet the designs won't satisfy us. We've come up of buying our own printer last June 15 with a reasonable price and I started making middle of last week and now it's almost done.



The design is so simple yet very practical. The good thing about creating your own wedding invitations is that you can tweak it the way you want it. You can make your own style based on your own idea. You can choose the materials that you want without spending too much. Your work and effort will be appreciated by others. You'll develop your talent in arts. It will open a good business for you if you're really good at it. It is much practical since you're not going to spend more. The printer would be your investment already. Your expenses only are the materials that you need to complete your invitations such as paper, ribbons, glue, tape and the like.

I'm having fun making our invitations and it feels great and I'm proud I made it alone. The picture above is our wedding invitations. By the way, I'm blogging through my cellphone.

Wedding Invitations

I’ve been to Davao for a week and we’re very busy complying for the things that we need to settle there for our wedding. The date and time of our wedding has been finalized. Our wedding entourage is already complete.

However, we don’t know yet how to design our wedding invitations. I haven’t check as well how much would it cost us if we ordered. Well, for me to have at least an idea I tried to browse the net to get some info and to my surprised some are quite expensive for just an invitation. Nah! It’s really not practical to pay more than Php 10,000 for just an invitation? Ten Thousand is already expensive actually and I don’t think it is wise to spend that much for just an invitation.

For me, spending more with your wedding invitation is not necessary. Your guests wouldn’t remember you anyways because of your expensive wedding invitations. What I want to say is that, you can come up with an idea how you would like your invitations to look like that would introduce a unique ambiance to your guests. Something that is unique yet less expensive. Now, I’m still considering creating my own wedding invitations. I think it’s time for me to use my talent in making art crafts for my wedding.

By the way, my boyfriend introduces this site to me. The blogger is also a fellow brother in our church from Leyte who designed his own wedding invitations. Honesty, I like his idea of making it simple yet unique and less expensive. Though it’s not the usual wedding invitation but still it is the couple who would decide how they want their invitation would look like. For me, it is not necessary to follow the traditional wedding invitations since there's no restrictions if you want it to be unique and simple. What matters is that the couple remembers you to be with them on their wedding day and that makes you special for them to invite you. Make sense? *wink!!(“,)