Wedding Invitation Wording

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I scoured the internet looking for appropriate Catholic wedding invitation wordings. My parents are not financially helping with the wedding, so if we put them as “hosting” then it would be pure gesture. (My parents do not even know about the wedding yet-- we are announcing it to our families with the wedding invitation)

My DF and I discussed some of the wording options we found, and we liked this one:

Ms. Bride Middle Lastname
requests the honour of your presence
at the Nupital Mass uniting her
to
Mr. Groom Middle Lastname
in the Sacrament of Holy Matrimony
on
Saturday, the twenty-seventh of October
two thousand and twelve
at
time o’clock
St. Church
Town, State

The underlined portion is the part that my DF and I are unsure of. I have seen some posters comment that “uniting” is incorrectly used.

My other question would something like this be easier (and/or) more appropriate?

The honour of your presence is requested
at the Nupital Mass uniting
Ms. Bride Middle Lastname
and
Mr. Groom Middle Lastname
in the Sacrament of Holy Matrimony

Saturday, the twenty-seventh of October
two thousand and twelve
time o’clock
Church
City, State

I have less than two weeks to get these invitations out so any help is greatly appreciated! God Bless!
 
ours were as follows…

“Bride”

and

“Groom”

have chosen the first day of their new life together as

“Date”

at

“Time”

“St. Church”

“Address”

Your presence is requested at this joyous occasion.

Hope this helps…also, congrats! 👍
 
Monicad said:
Congratulations!
I actually prefer the second one, primarily because the first one sounds like the invitation is coming from the bride only. Reads to me like “the bride requests your presence at her wedding to mr. so-and-so” Not bad necessarily, just sounds a little odd. Although that’s just my two cents.
Prayers for you, God bless.
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I *am *doing all the work, right? 😉
 
As a former assistant wedding planner, I used to word invitations for a living.

Your second option is more unitive. Even if you’re doing all the work, the first wording looks like you’re making a point of that. Like Monicad said, not bad, just odd. That said, I don’t see how the word “uniting” is incorrectly used in the first option, but I admit I’ve never seen an invitation text like that before. The most common options are bride’s parents only, groom’s parents only, both sets of parents, or the bride **and **groom themselves.

The Husband and I married in our 30s and paid for the wedding ourselves, but our invitations still read as if our parents were “hosting.” We chose to do it that way to give them the honor of extending the invitation to our guests. Our invitation was in two languages. The English text had my parents inviting, the French text had my in-laws inviting. We knew it meant a lot to them (particularly in the case of my in-laws, since The Husband is an only child). And we didn’t mind because it wasn’t important to us that everyone was aware we paid for everything.

Hope this helps 🙂
 
Thanks! I think we will do the second one. I wish I had kept the link on where I found the first format, but of course, I didn’t.

What would be the proper wording for the reception that isn’t a meal???

Reception immediately
following ceremony
Name of Venue
Address
Town, State

I was planning on doing a couple appetizers and dessert bar with beverages. No alcohol.
 
Sorry for the delay in responding - I was at Mass :getholy:

Anyway, traditionally there is no special wording for that. The time of day the reception will be held generally indicates the type of reception it will be. If it’s an evening reception that includes a meal, many brides choose to use “Dinner Reception” as the first line instead of just “Reception”. Since your reception doesn’t include a meal, the following format should do the trick.

Reception
immediately following the ceremony
Name of Venue
Address
City, State

Note that the address line is optional if the venue is well known (such as a country club).
 
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luvpinsanity said:
Thanks! I think we will do the second one. I wish I had kept the link on where I found the first format, but of course, I didn’t.

What would be the proper wording for the reception that isn’t a meal???

Reception immediately
following ceremony
Name of Venue
Address
Town, State

I was planning on doing a couple appetizers and dessert bar with beverages. No alcohol.
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For the invitation, the 2nd one.

To indicate the reception will have no meal, put;

Hors d’oeuvre and dessert reception
to follow
name of venue
etc
 
Dacinom said:
** this post is from this past summer, the original poster was married in October so reponses to longer would be meaningful to her **
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GRRRRR. Not cool to resurrect old threads. Not cool when I fail to notice the date and post on one!!!
 
The only (name removed by moderator)ut I would have is to find some way to incorporate yours and your fiance’s parents’ names – maybe add the line "together with their parents Mr. and Mrs. Bride’s parents’ names and Mr. and Mrs. Groom’s parents’ names. The only reason I say this is if it’s just your name and you send it to a friend of your (or his) parents, they might not necessarily associate the name of the child – especially if these are friends from years ago who may not have kept up that closely with you other than “How’s Jane doing?” I got an invitation a while back to a wedding for a friend (he was the groom); and while I knew him rather well, it still took seeing his parents’ name on the invitation to register who was getting married – probably because even though I knew he had graduated college and had sent him a graduation present, it still shocked me that this little boy I had known for years was old enough to get married 😃

Just my two cents.
 
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