Happy Almost-Weekend Day! I’m really excited for the weekend because my mom is coming to town to babysit Charlie so my hubs and I can go on a roadtrip for the weekend for our 3 year anniversary. We’re headed up the central coast to Cambria. If anyone has a favorite spot, restaurant, etc. please share!
Since last week’s tips post was all about making and cutting your guest list, I thought a good follow up to that would be how to word wedding invitations. I found this infographic to guide you, and I think you might find it really helpful.

{from Lasso’d Moon}
I had a hard time wording my wedding invitations at first, because my father is deceased and my mother is remarried. But I didn’t want to include my stepfather without including my dad, and including both got wordy and complicated. And I didn’t want my invitations to seem too formal or stuffy. So my husband and I opted to go with “together with their families.” I also loved our last line “dinner, dancing, and delight to follow.” For more of our wording, you can see my invitation below.


{photo by jennifer roper & invite by tilde designs from my wedding}
If you liked my invitations, you can see more of my paper goods here, all done by Tilde Designs (aka my bestie and maid of honor!). She’s good you guys – she doesn’t have much up on etsy right now because she already has so many orders, including my brother’s wedding stationery.
I hope this guide on wording your wedding invitations is helpful to you, and if you need advice about a specific situation and how to word your invitation (like I had) feel free to leave it in the comments and I’ll answer or find an answer for you!
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Thanks so much for sharing my infographic 🙂
My pleasure! I think it is so helpful to wedding planning brides 🙂
Great Advice! So important to get the wording of the wedding invitations correct!
Poetic phrases adds a wonderful finish to wedding invitations.
I really don’t want little kids at my wedding, but I feel like if we were to say something about “appropriate aged children” or something then there would be people who STILL brought little kids. How do I politely tell our friends and family that we want a black tie/formal wedding with the little ones at home?