How Do You Use Wedding Invitation Etiquette?
In the days before commercial printers, weddings were announced in the center of the village by the town crier. It was also common for nobility to pay monks to create hand-crafted wedding invitations that were delivered by courier. Today, beautiful wedding invitations are affordable but much of the formality still applies. Address the invitation using the full name of the recipient, including a middle name (if you know it) rather than an initial. Use “Mr. and Mrs. William Christopher Jones” or “Dr. and Mrs. William Jones” rather than “Bill and Alice Jones.” Write out fully all the words in the street address, such as “Street,” “Road,” “Court,” and “Avenue.” Use abbreviations only for Saint (St.) and Mount (Mt.). Use the words “request the honor of your presence” on an invitation to a ceremony in a house of worship. Use “request the pleasure of your company” for weddings held in a non-religious setting. Spell out the date, time and year on the invitations. Write, “the fourteenth of June
