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The invitation to your party, shower or wedding is the first glimpse into your celebration for your guests. For this reason, your invitations should match the occasion in both style and theme as well. Your invitation is meant to inform your invited guests about your event, but also they are to set the tone for the upcoming event.
You will want to send out your invitations at least four weeks before a smaller party and exactly eight weeks prior for a larger event such as a wedding. You will also likely want to make sure that your party or event is not held over a holiday weekend where many of your friends and family may already have other plans, or who will not want to deal with holiday travel.
The wording on your invitation should be done in a very standard way. This means that it should include the following:
* All phrasing should always be in the third person style
* Punctuation is never used at the ends of lines on an invitation, only on names and addresses which require them
* Try not to use any abbreviations on your invitations. Spell out names and addresses fully. The one exception to this is the use of Mr. And Mrs. Both of these abbreviations are appropriate for an invitation.
* Days, dates, and times should all be spelled out completely.
* It is always socially unacceptable to write no children or refer to gifts, or even no gifts, on any invitations.
Each invitation should have the following information contained on it:
* The name of the host or hosts
* The purpose of the event
* The name of the guest of honor
* The day, date and time of the event
* The location of the event
* The address of the event with the street address only, never the zip code as this is tacky
Once you have your invitations completed, then it is time to get a friend to read over them for you and let you know if you have any mistakes in your text. This is very important because the last thing you want to do is send out all of your invitations with the wrong date or time on them. It is so much easier to catch and fix mistakes before the invitations are ever sent out.
You might find it surprising to know that in this day and age you can have your invitations printed at a very reasonable cost online. Zazzle.com offers a huge selection of high quality invitations created by very talented artists. All invites are customizable by the customer; including type of paper and size. Add a matching postage stamp to your invitations to create a coordinated party set.
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