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TESTIMONIALS
Rhode Island
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South Carolina
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South Dakota
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Tennessee
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MORE WEDDING INVITATION ETIQUETTE
A wedding invitation is a letter sent to an individual, requesting the recipient to attend a wedding. Typically, they are sent six weeks prior to the wedding. Many wedding invitations have fancy writing done by calligraphers. Other invitations may be engraved, thermograved, letterpressed, and sometimes blind embossed. Often, these invitations are sent in double envelopes. The inner envelope is matched in color to the actual invitation. The outer envelope is designed for sealing and addressing.
Setting the tone of the wedding is determined by a large number of options. Once the couple sets the date and completes the list of guests, the invitation is selected and ordered. It is best to allow three months before the wedding for addressing, mailing and guest response.
Response cards may be included along with the invitation. These response cards may be used for gathering the total for the caterer as well as gathering the total number of guests. The response cards should be returned to the couple two weeks before the wedding or the date stated in the invitation. Other insertions may include the reception card, maps to the venue and information on accommodations.
The parents of the bride, or surviving parent, or the nearest kin if the bride were orphaned, are the ones who usually issue the wedding invitations.
Here are some invitation tips:
- Be sure to check your invitations list thoroughly and order a few extras for those last minute invitees. If you have to order extras at a later date, it will be quite expensive, because the printer has to redo all of the setup again.
- Dividing the task of addressing invitations should be decided once the number of guests has been determined.
- Allow ample time for out-of-town guests to make reservations and travel plans. Invitations should be mailed eight to ten weeks ahead of response date.
- For local guests, invitations are sent two to four weeks before response date.
- Avoid typing the envelopes. Proper etiquette dictates they should be handwritten in black ink.
- Names or addresses should not be abbreviated.
- Response cards should be stamped and pre-addressed.
- Inner envelopes should be unsealed and addressed by last names.
- The invitations, response cards and envelope are sent to the guest. The response card compels a guest to respond by a specified date.
- The response card is also meant to give the wedding party information as to the number of guests that will actually attend.
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