Beautiful wedding invitation wording ideas and wedding invitation verses

Choosing the wedding invitation wording you use may depend on your family situation or personal style. If this is your second wedding, you may want to include your children's names on the invitation.

Wedding invitation wording can be as elaborate or as simple as you choose. Using poems, calligraphy or beautiful wedding invitation verses helps you create unique invitations and reception cards.

Finding the right size and style of font will help keep your wedding invitation wording clear and easy to read.

Find out how you can create the right wedding invitation verses for your blank wedding invitations, with this guide to wedding invitation wording. To fill your wedding invitations with all of the necessary information, just follow a few simple rules.

Text

The wording and text on a wedding invitation is what's most important.

The style and font of the invitation lettering should be reflected in all of the lettering used at the wedding, for instance, on place cards, the guest book, and more.

These fonts are used for their style and clarity of print:

• Old English
• Roman Capitals
• Calligraphy

Make sure that your ink color matches the design of the letters, border and color of the invitations.

How much spacing you give to your letters also affects the clarity of the information conveyed. Typically, 10-14 lines is the average number of lines to put on a wedding invitation.

For a higher word count, your font should be simple, while a low word count has room to play with full bodied or fancy lettering.

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Samples

For great samples of fonts and styles, look for wedding invitations online.

Wedding invitation layouts include:

• Ceremony invitation
• Reception card
• RSVP information

Begin with a ceremony invite, which introduces first the bride and then the groom. The couple's parents should also be mentioned, as this symbolizes the joining of two families.

Remember to include both the address of the ceremony and the location of the reception.

Wording

The wedding invitation wording that you choose for your wedding invitation may reflect the style of the wedding.

Choose your wording carefully in order to convey a casual or formal wedding. For example, words like "request the honor" convey tradition, while more modern phrases like "invite you to join them" conveys a more informal gathering.

You may even choose to use poems in your ceremony book, or on your invitation.

Details

Some details of the family structure may be important for the couple to convey.

For instance, if a parent has remarried, the couple may wish to include the step-parent on the family introduction part of the invitation.

When one parent has died, you may choose two different ways to word the wedding invitations. You can either keep the deceased’s name on the invites, as the ‘late’ parent, or you can use only the living parent's name as a single host.

If your wedding has a more informal style, or if you are hosting the wedding yourself, simply state on the announcements that the bridal couple request the guest's presence at the wedding.

Fitting a double wedding announcement on one card is easy if you follow the traditional format. However, adjusting it to fit two couple’s announcements will take a smaller font and less fancy poems or wording.

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