The Wedding Invitations and Wedding Announcements

Wedding announcements and wedding invitations provide distinct purposes and a few thought should go into figuring out who receives which. There is a great deal to undertake when preparing a wedding and here are a few useful suggestions to use when determining who to include on each of your mailing lists.

Wedding Invitations are mailed to friends and family members you wish to invite to go to the actual wedding ceremony. When planning your wedding ceremony, it is a good plan to at first determine a list of those friends, family members and business associates you want at the wedding ceremony itself. Make sure you remember to include your wedding reception party as well in your head count. This number will allow you to determine the venue for your ceremony. Perhaps the chapel is a more sensible choice than the huge main sanctuary, for instance, should you be considering a church wedding. Or, maybe the main ballroom is not required if a more compact room will do.

When making the order for those wedding invitations, make sure to add a few additional for unexpected inclusions in your list or in case you mistakenly address a few.

Wedding Announcements are sent to tell family and friends of your marriage if they did not get wedding invitations. Announcements don't include the details of the wedding ceremony itself and are generally mailed on the day of the occasion. They are used for announcing your wedding to people you may not know very well to invite to the wedding ceremony or who may live very far away to be present at the wedding. They are ideal for work associates or to let people be aware of your name change. They can also be sent to announce a wedding if you have eloped or if only an extremely small group was included in a destination wedding.

Just like formal as wedding invitations, wedding announcements enable those important people to you, to realize that you have made it official and are usually ordered at the same time as your wedding invitations, and are printed in similar fashion. As with wedding invitations, ordering a few extra is a must.

Wedding Reception Invitations offer a 3rd option for celebrating your wedding and usually demand separate forms of notification. Reception cards are more popular to invite guests and share information of the reception and are part of the wedding invitation. Normally all attendees invited to the wedding ceremony are also invited to the following wedding reception. However, for more intimate events, it is possible that a bigger group is invited to the reception separately. For this, a formal wedding reception invitation is suitable. These too are printed and ordered at the same time as the wedding invitations and announcements.

Regardless of whether someone is on your wedding invitation, wedding announcement or wedding reception list, make sure to keep all 3 lists updated. Avoid total embarrassment by failing to include a person or by sending them an incorrect invitation. And, keep a number of each on hand for memory books.