Invitation Wedding Wording

Invitation Wording to Church Wedding
Church wedding invitation should be worded with a bit more formality than the invitation to the home ceremony. It shall be sent 6 to 8 weeks before the wedding day. Normally, church wedding invitation does not require no written acknowledgement, except in rare cases when there is a request for it. Instead of using the initials, R.S.V.P., it would be better to say simply, "Please reply." This differ in the case of home wedding invitations, which, require prompt acknowledgment.

Below are two example of church wedding invitation wedding wording:

Mr. and Mrs. John Steven
request the honor of

.......................
presence at the marriage of their daughter
Mary Mitch
with
Mr. Michael John
Thursday, the tenth of March

Two thousand and five
at four o'clock in the afternoon
St. Nicholas's Church
Los Angeles

Or

Mr. and Mrs. John Steven
request the honor of your presence
at the marriage of their daughter
Mary Mitch
and
Mr. Michael John
Friday, the fifth of August

Two thousand and five
at six o'clock in the evening
Presbyterian Church
New York

In the first wedding invitation example, the name of the guest is written by hand in the dotted space left for that purpose. Under customary the use of "marriage" and "marriage with" is in preference to "marriage to." However, any one of them may be used.

Home Wedding Invitation Wording
For home wedding, the phrase "request the honor of your presence" is replaced by the phrase "request the pleasure of your company", if one prefers "honor" may be used in place of "pleasure".

Similar to the case of the church wedding, a space is left for the name of the guest to be filled in, or the following can be used:

Mr. and Mrs. Randy Bon
request the pleasure of your company
at the marriage of their daughter
Jane Jenny
and
Mr. Tom Stone
On Tuesday afternoon, June the third
at four o'clock
Eighty-two North Street

If the wedding takes place in the country, and a guest at a great distance is invited, a small card like the following can be included:

City Hall Central Station
for Hillville at 11:42 A.M.
Returning train leaves Hillville
for Texas at 6:10 P.M.

Rich people often cater a special train at the disposal of special city friends whose presence is highly desired at the wedding. A card, like the one following, can be enclosed with the invitation, and it represent a pass, entitling the bearer to a seat in the reserved train:

The special train leaves
City Hall Station for Hillville
at 11:42 A.M.
Leaves Hillville for City Hall Station
at 6:10 P.M.
Please present this card at station door