Wedding Invitation Kits: Why Use Them & How to Word Your Invite

Why Use an Invitation Kit

Using a wedding invitation kit is a great idea if you are looking for a way to create a beautiful wedding invitation on a lower budget. Kits offer a variety of designs, colors, and shapes, for you to choose from and then mold into the perfect wedding invitation for your special day. Each kit will offer its own variation of response cards, invitations, envelopes, and even templates, but the catch is they will come with a limited number. This is where you need to make sure to pay attention to make sure the cost of the invitation kit will in fact be less than printing your invitation through a company. BUT $54 for 50 invitations may be a price worth the extra work, plus it leaves you room to completely personalize the wording of your invitation. 

How to Word Your Invite

So how do you word a wedding invitation? This will depend a lot on you and your preferences. One of the first things to consider is who the invite is coming from; for example are the bride and groom inviting their guests, is the invitation from the brides parents, the bride and groom's parents, or perhaps divorced parents? Traditionally wedding invitations are worded to be from the brides parents, but as time has gone on the tradition has, of course, transformed. But with so many options, there comes that many more decisions. 

From the Bride and Groom: A generic wedding invite

Cute and Sappy Quote (Optional)

Bride's Name

and 

Groom's Name

request the honor of your presence at their marriage

Day of the week, day of month, month

Year

at half after __ o'clock

Location

Address

Sample

And we shall become as one to share every moment of our lives... 
Daisy Smith 
and 
Jacob Wask
request the honor of your presence at their marriage 
Friday, the twenty second of June 
two thousand thirteen 
at four o'clock 
Church of Christ 
1302 Westminster Avenue 
Seattle, Washington

From the Bride and Groom's Parents: This wording from Invitations Consultants is ADORABLE for a winter wedding! 

The weather outside may be 
frightful, but the wedding inside will be delightful 
Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Brown 
and 
Doctors William and Sally Baker 
invite you to share in the joy of the marriage uniting 
their children 
Cindy 
and 
Matthew 
Thursday, the eighteenth of December 
two thousand eighteen 
five o'clock in the evening 
St. Joseph Catholic Church 
22 East Bay Road 
Atlanta, Georgia