Wedding Invitation Kits

My fiance and I have been living on our own, and already have everything we need, or could imagine we would need, as far as wedding gifts go by. We would like to ask our guests if they chose to give a gift, that a gift of money is preferred.
I don’t want to offend anyone (my family is not as easily offended as his) however it will give us a chance to go on a really nice honeymoon before he gets deployed.
Any thoughts on how to say this nicely on an invitation?

If you would like to give a gift please consider a cash contribution towards our honeymoon.

This is awkward, but should not offend anyone!
Have a lovely wedding!

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when the mother of the bride is divorced and not remarried and the brides father is not in the picture period!… and the bride has chosen her brother to give her away how is that worded on the wedding invitation? In other words the brides mother and brother are giving her away. What is proper wedding invitation etiquette?

Whoever gives the bride away has absolutely no bearing on the names on the invitation. If you are adament that your father’s name will not appear, simply put:

Mrs. Mom’s Name
requests the honor of your company
at the marriage of her daughter
Your Name
to Groom’s Name
son of Mr. and Mrs. Groom’s parents

Your brother’s name does not go anywhere.

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In relation to marriage ceremony etiquette recommendations, don’t forget that in every single aspect of the marriage ceremony there is certainly an etiquette that will need to always be implemented. There’s the actual etiquette to stick to when making an invitation, mailing it out, plus responding to it. Also, whenever taking part in a wedding ceremony, attendees must abide to the standard etiquette for guests. On top of that, whenever sending out gifts there is an etiquette as well that ought to be put into practice.

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My mother in law is planning a ceremony for my husband and I to get married in front of our friends and family members, we already had a small ceremony between us and GOD. She is planning a backyard event, and we are going to invite 70-80 people, we know that only half can show up. I need assistance in creating the best most inexpensive of invitations to this event.Any Ideas are welcome.Since my husband and I are already married, and have been living together for 2years, I don’t know how beneficial it would be to us to register at a bridal registery. My mother in law says to politely ask for money only, somehow in the invitations, is that rude?We are very low income, so we are trying to do this on a very low budget.

I agree with using an invitation kit from a mass-store. I’ve linked to a very simple folding one that works out to around a dollar an invitation with postage (not counting shipping, tax, or return postage.)

There’s also willow tree lane where you can order value packages of 100 invites, response cards, inner envelope, response envelope, and tissue starting at under $125. There is even at least one that’s under $100. Outer envelopes are under $20 – an extra charge, but it’s a good price to have your invitations professionally done (not that much more than the Target ones!!).

No, you should not make *any* reference to a gift anywhere in the invitations – especially a cash gift. If people call to ask your grandmother where you are registered, she can tell them that you prefer a cash gift to ‘help with XXX’ (like the purchase of your new home, to pay for the honeymoon, to finance a new car, etc.). It also can’t hurt to register somewhere. Try a local branch of a May Company Store (Filene’s, Meier & Frank, Foley’s, Robinson May) and this way if you can’t use the gifts, you can exchange them for a gift card and buy clothes or something.

Congratulations on your marriage and good luck!

edited to add: I don’t know why the Target link won’t show up, but it’s on the target.com website. Search for ‘wedding invitations’.

I am getting married in a few months, but I’m not having a bridal shower. I’ve always known it to be tacky to send the wedding registry with the invitations, is it still bad etiquette to send it even if it’s not on the invitation itself and on a separate card? Otherwise if this is not acceptable, then what’s the proper way of letting my guests know where I’m registered at? I can’t do word of mouth because the wedding guests are from all different places. Thank you!

What about a wedding website? You can include something in your invitations that say something like "for more information on our wedding, go to our wedding website" and include the link. There are tons of FREE wedding website makers online. Now if your family isn’t very tech savvy, this might not work.

Wedding invitation etiquette dictates placing the hosts’ names in the first section of the invitation wording, whether the bride’s parents, the groom’s parents or the bride and groom together are hosting the wedding. Use proper wording according to who is throwing the party with creative advice from a professional event coordinator in this free video on weddings.

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I am my youngest aunt’s maid of honor. We are fairly close, more so than the other family members. She has just emailed me indicating that my boyfriend of two years, whom I also live with, is not invited due to "wedding invitation restrictions." The location at which she has reserved her wedding is limited to about 120 people. She, via email, said she’s very depressed about it and would understand if I backed out, granted with fair time warning.

I less want to go to the wedding, but also want to as it is a great honor. At the same time, I would rather have my boyfriend there. There is no reason other than that that he is not invited, he has been to family dinners and they (from what impression I can gather) like him.

Any advice?? How do I tell my boyfriend??
From the email, she seemed really down about it, and also indicated that it MIGHT be possible to add him provided that one of my grandparents’ guests did not come. My grandparents probably invited some people my aunt didn’t want to–but they are stodgy old Vietnamese people.
Thank you!!! I hadn’t realized that he would be sitting at a different table as well. He probably won’t be able to come anyway since he may work nights and will be unable to take vacation time.

Thanks all again! ~I really like this new feature of Yahoo’s. Happy holidays.

Any wedding guest over the age of 18 and in a relationship should have thier significant other included. It’s very poor taste to not do so, especially since you are IN the wedding AND live together! This may be the man you one day marry, but even if you don’t, it’s still majorly tacky to exclude him. Not to push the issue with your aunt, but she needs to let you know if he is or is not on the list ASAP. One, because her answer may affect your decision to participate in the wedding, and two, she needs to know if she is going to replace you as a bridemaid or if she is going to be a gracious bride and invite him. By the way, I had a similar situation happen to me. I wasn’t in the wedding, but had been dating my bf for 4 years at the time. He had met most of the family, and still wasn’t invited. It wasn’t like I was a teenage either, I was 26 at the time. Anyway, we are getting married in July, and he still feels bad that he wasn’t included in the family. What can I say? Some people are born in barns and have no manners. Hope it all works out for you!

I would like to replace my parents names with my childrens names, In announcing my wedding in the invitation…How do I do that using proper etiquette?

I own several etiquette books and NONE of them have any samples or examples of someone’s children inviting you to a wedding, and that’s because children do not HOST (plan, organize, and pay for) a wedding.

Apparently, you do not understand why the Bride’s parents’ names are on on the invitation, their names are there because they are the HOST AND HOSTESS of the event.

You can do anything you want, but if you wish to do this properly then you should NOT put your children’s names on the invitation because they are NOT the host or hostess of the event.

Answered by: A Certified wedding specialist / A Professional bridal consultant / A Wedding ceremony officiant

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In wedding ceremony etiquette publications on addressing wedding invitations etiquette, professionals suggest the invitation really should be regarded as a gift coming from the forthcoming couple to their beloved guests. When preparing for the addressing of wedding ceremony invitations, be sure to do not forget that your invitations will make a initial effect of the coming wedding ceremony amongst the guests.

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