wedding invitation etiquette

Addressing LiiArtsa Wedding Invitations

You may notice some of LiiArtsa invitations do not have individual names of guests printed on the invite. LiiArtsa offers a few options for inviting guests to your wedding celebration.  

After you have chosen to have either individual guests names printed on your invitation or omitted, there are other various options you can choose to address the invitations to your invited guests:

1.        The traditional wedding etiquette (which LiiArtsa recommends) for addressing wedding invitations is as follows:

• The name of each guest invited is printed on an inner envelope, which includes the invitations, RSVP and any additional information inside.  The envelope bears the title and last names of the specific people you would like invited.  This allows the host to be very clear about who is invited, and by omission, who is not invited.  An example is as follows:
  

 

Familiar names for close family:


Aunty Katherine and Uncle William

OR

 Mr. and Mrs. Trent Worthington and the two Worthington children Emily and Michael would be:

Mr. and Mrs. Worthington

Emily Worthington

Michael Worthington

• The inner envelope is then placed inside an outer envelope.  The outer envelope is addressed conventionally using titles, first, (middle), last names and full street addresses.

2.       Some other alternatives to using an inner envelope are:

• a beautiful invitation wrap which encloses all the information in a matching stationary band, with guests names printed on it.
• or, a stunning name tag, attached by string or ribbon that complements the stationary.

LiiArtsa will be posting examples of these in the future.  

Please be mindful these are only guides and it's your wedding, so choose your style and just go with it!

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