What's Wrong with this Wedding Invitation?
Monday April 14, 2008
Don't get us wrong, we love this wedding invitation. In fact, we even featured it in our article 10 Unique Ways to Personalize Your Wedding Invitations. But there's something wrong with it. Can you spot it? (You'll probably need to click here to see the invitation full size. ) It's the wording. The beginning is worded like an announcement, but the end is worded like an invitation.
You should implicitly invite your guests to the wedding. This casual invite should say something like "Jack and Susan Blanch are pleased to invite you to the wedding of their daughter Sophia . . ." For a more formal invite, you would say "Mr. and Mrs. John H. Blanch request the honor of your presence at the marriage of their daughter Sophia
Conversely, an announcement is sent after the wedding, and should make no mention of the reception. You also don't generally mention the time of the wedding.
Did you get it right? Make sure you get it right for your wedding invitation by checking out our guide to wedding invitation wording.
Comments
Friday is not the first day of September 2008!
Is it an announcement or an invitation? The top says “announce the marriage” but the bottom has details about a future date and location of the ceremony.
And style wise, I wouldn’t have put “sophia to jack” on the same line. : )
If you don’t place the time of the wedding, then how will your guests know when to show up?
My guess on what’s wrong was the same as Maxine. 1 Sept 2008 is a Monday, but the first friday in September 2008 is the 5th.
WOW this invitation looks a hot mess! It definitely looks more like an “announcement” rather than an invitation!!
I hope they didnt pay for them.. Proof reading is your friend…
I think it looks fine. Does anyone really care about the wording on an invitation as long as it’s pretty and they know when and where?
I don’t see what’s wrong with the combination announcement/invitation either.
Although, there may have been a difference (and may stil be in some circles), it makes perfect sense to say that there is an announcement of a wedding and then that a person is being invited to that same wedding.
I also agree with the poster who asked where else the time should be mentioned if not here.
You mean “explicitly”, not “implicitly”.
I fully understand what the author is stating. It needs to say you are invited, or please join us. It’s about making sure there is a full understanding that they are to arrive. If it truly was an announcement and not an invite, then you would not state the wedding time or anything about the reception. You would only send announcements to people who were not invited to the ceremony and reception after the events are over.
The author was pointing what needed to be done since it is/isn’t an announcement.
She used implicitly correctly. You would “understand” that if you really did know what she meant.