INVITATIONS
Before making or ordering your invitations, you must know how many people you are inviting, where your wedding is taking place, and what time. The invitation should complement your theme and style of your wedding.

RULES OF ETIQUETTE
The invitation should be issued by the parents of the bride. If however the parents are not alive the accepted order is an elderly brother, elderly sister, both grandparents, uncle or aunt, guardians, the couple issue the invitations themselves or the groom’s family. 
When mailing the invitations, do not mail the invitations more than four weeks in advanced, however not less than two weeks.
Try to avoid abbreviations as much as possible. They can be confusing and misleading to some people.

An example of a wedding invitation issued by the parents of the bride might look something like this:

Mr. and Mrs. Carlton Henry Bryant
Request the honour of your presence
At the marriage of their daughter
Amy Sayyah
To
Mark Anthony
On Friday, June twenty third
Two thousand and nine
At seven o’clock in the afternoon
At the Halo Banquet Hall
Mississauga, Ontario

Example of a wedding invitation issued by the couple (mother and father deceased):

The honour of your presence is requested
At the marriage of
Miss Kelly Murphy
To
Anthony Odin

Example of a wedding invitation issued by mother (divorced) not married:

Mrs. Mary Foresight
Requests the honour of your presence
At the marriage of her daughter
Jaclyn Read
To Sammy Zamir
Son of Mr. and Mrs. William Kensington
On Saturday, the fifth day of April
At eight o’clock in the morning
Loyola United Church
Hamilton, Ontario

Example of a wedding invitation issued by living parent who has remarried (other parent is deceased):

Mr. and Mrs. Mark Washington
Request the honour of your presence
At the marriage of Mrs. Washington’s daughter
Ashley Casey

Example of a wedding invitation issued by brides married brother or sister (both parents are deceased):

Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Hall
Request the honour of your presence
At the marriage of their sister
Rose Jennifer Asht

Example of a wedding invitation issued by Adult Children:

Mark K. Smith Jr.
Ashley smith
Beth Smith
Request the honour of your presence
At the marriage of their mother
Maria Lopez
To Dean Zamir

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