{"id":798,"date":"2012-09-13T13:30:40","date_gmt":"2012-09-13T13:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.themanorrestaurant.com\/blog\/?p=798"},"modified":"2023-01-03T14:43:51","modified_gmt":"2023-01-03T19:43:51","slug":"wedding-invitation-etiquette-addressing-invitations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pleasantdale.com\/blog\/wedding-invitation-etiquette-addressing-invitations\/","title":{"rendered":"Wedding Invitation Etiquette: Addressing Invitations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"httpss:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pleasantdalechateau\">Wedding etiquette<\/a><\/strong>may have relaxed in some areas, but the long-held \u2018rules\u2019 still hold true with invitations. On this blog, we talked about giving guests a +1, and now we\u2019re focusing on the art, and etiquette, of addressing your invitations.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_802\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pleasantdale.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Wedding-Invitations1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-802\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-802\" title=\"Wedding Invitations\" src=\"https:\/\/pleasantdale.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Wedding-Invitations1-300x190.jpg\" alt=\"Wedding Invitations\" width=\"300\" height=\"190\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-802\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wedding Invitations<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>The number one rule of <strong>wedding invitation etiquette<em> <\/em><\/strong>is that it\u2019s a Don\u2019t to print out guests\u2019 names and addresses on labels. Guests are not impressed when they see labels on the formal invitation envelopes, so be sure to hand-write yours out.<!--more--><\/li>\n<li>More wedding couples are hiring professional <strong>wedding calligraphers<\/strong> to write out their invitation envelopes, for an elegant and impressive creation.<\/li>\n<li>Use proper titles for guests, such as <em>Captain Mark Smith<\/em> for a military serviceperson (and be sure you\u2019re updated on their current rank. It is okay to call and ask for this information.)<\/li>\n<li>Use no abbreviations on your <strong>wedding invitation envelope. <\/strong>Mr. and Mrs. are perfectly fine to use, as is Ms., but when it comes to the address, <em>St. <\/em>is spelled out as <em>Street,<\/em> and <em>Ave.<\/em> is spelled out as <em>Avenue. <\/em>Even the state is spelled out.<\/li>\n<li>If a couple is invited with their kids, you\u2019ll write <em>Mrs. and Mrs. Mark Smith and Family<\/em> on the outer envelope, and the inner envelope bears the names:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Mrs. and Mrs. Mark Smith<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Miss Emily Smith<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Miss Jane Smith<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Master Mark Smith, Junior<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Master<\/em> is used for a boy, on ultra-formal invitations.<\/li>\n<li>Send separate invitations for guests aged 18 and older; some couples choose to make this you-get-your-own invitation age 16.<\/li>\n<li>Spell your guests\u2019 names correctly, and double-check the spellings of child guests\u2019 names.<\/li>\n<li>When a guest is in a long-term relationship, find out their partner\u2019s name so that you can write it on the invitation. It\u2019s considered <strong>bad wedding etiquette<\/strong> to write <em>And Guest<\/em> when that person has been in a serious relationship for a long time, engaged or not.<\/li>\n<li>It\u2019s been the norm to use a black pen to address invitations, but if your invitations have a deep purple design and font, you can certainly use a deep purple pen to address the invitation envelopes.<\/li>\n<li>Respect guests\u2019 planning time by mailing out your invitations at least 6-8 weeks prior to a hometown wedding, and at least 12 weeks prior to a <strong>destination wedding<\/strong>. A <strong>top wedding etiquette practice<\/strong> is sending invitations out 12 weeks prior if the wedding is local to <em>you<\/em>, but many guests will be traveling in from afar. To them, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.knowlesrestaurants.com\/\">your New Jersey wedding<\/a><\/strong> is a <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/netlz.corank.com\/tech\/all\/cat\/upcoming\/wedding\">destination wedding<\/a>.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wedding etiquettemay have relaxed in some areas, but the long-held \u2018rules\u2019 still hold true with invitations. On this blog, we talked about giving guests a +1, and now we\u2019re focusing on the art, and etiquette, of addressing your invitations. The number one rule of wedding invitation etiquette is that it\u2019s a Don\u2019t to print out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,59,47,37,36],"tags":[197,510,483,91],"class_list":["post-798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bright-ideas","category-bright-ideas-for-your-wedding","category-cost-saving-ideas","category-wedding-ideas","category-wedding-planning","tag-invitations","tag-wedding-etiquette","tag-wedding-planning","tag-wedding-trends"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pleasantdale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pleasantdale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pleasantdale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pleasantdale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pleasantdale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pleasantdale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pleasantdale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pleasantdale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pleasantdale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}