Formal wedding invitations must follow proper wedding invitation etiquette and should include the following:

• Bride and Grooms full names (including middle names)
• Day and date of the wedding
• The year should be written out on the next line following the date
• Time of the wedding
• Location of the wedding (formal wedding invitations usually just include the name of the church or building, while less formal or casual wedding invitations might also include the street address)
• City and State (do not include zip code)

Those are the essentials, the things that you absolutely MUST include in your wedding invitation wording. Other than that, you can be very creative with the rest of the wording. However, your wedding invitation wording will vary based on several factors like:

• Who is doing the inviting. (Bride’s parents, Bride’s and Groom’s parents, Bride and Groom, Children of Bride and Groom, etc.)
• If the Bride’s or Groom’s parents are deceased
• If the Bride’s or Groom’s parents are divorced
• If it is a second (or third or fourth) marriage
• If the wedding is being held in a Church or at a Home or other non-church location

Here are some samples of wedding invitation wording where the Bride and Groom are doing the inviting:

With joyous hearts
we invite you to attend
the wedding of
LaJune Nashea Hamilton
and
Donovan Ramond Williamson
Saturday, the twenty-fifth of April
Two thousand and ten
at five thirty in the evening
Venetian Terrace
215 Mandalay Canal
Arlington, Texas

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Please join us
for a celebration of
Love, friendship, laughter, and family
as
Audrey Davidson
and
Donny Wolverton
Join their hands in holy matrimony

Saturday, August 22
two thousand and ten
at six o’clock in the evening
Windy Road Ranch
Lubbock, Texas

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TOGETHER WITH THEIR PARENTS AND FAMILY
Luanna Gutierrez
AND
Ryan Jacob Dominguez
REQUEST THE HONOUR OF YOUR PRESENCE
AS THEY JOIN HANDS IN HOLY MATRIMONY
SATURDAY, THE TWENTY-FIRST OF NOVEMBER
TWO THOUSAND AND NINE
AT ONE O’CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON
HOLY SPIRIT CATHOLIC CHURCH
HEMET, CALIFORNIA
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Because you have shared in
our lives
by your friendship and love we,
Nicole Bernadette Cypert
and
Nicholas Thomas Jacobson
together with our parents
invite you to share
the beginning of our new life together
when we exchange marriage vows
on Friday, the ninth of May
two thousand eleven
at five o’clock in the evening
Paradise Country Club
Madison, Wisconson

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You are invited to a celebration
of the beginning of our new life together

as Mari D’Lynn Martin

and
Colton Jeremy Jamison
are united as husband and wife

Friday, the twenty-seventh of March
two thousand and ten
at two o’clock in the afternoon

First Baptist Church
Jersey City, New Jersey

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The next post in this series will include samples of wedding invitation wording for weddings where the Bride’s parents are doing the inviting. You can also view more samples of wedding invitation wording on actual wedding invitations I have created at www.JoyfulHeartDesign.com.

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My Warm Autumn Leaves Save the Date card is very warm and inviting,
featuring a lovely array of fall leaves in rich autumn colors of burgundy,
orange and brown on a golden sunshine background.
Perfect for a traditional autumn wedding.

The Sassy Sunbursts Save the Date card is for those who want a modern fall wedding
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Joyful Heart Design has designed a new stationery product to benefit Pink Initiative in response to Pink Initiative’s Be the Change $10,000 Challenge for October and National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The product is a set of note cards displaying a silver princess crown printed on white linen paper and embellished with a pink jewel. The set comes wrapped with pink ribbon and is being sold by Joyful Heart Design on the company’s website, www.JoyfulHeartDesign.com/pinkinitiative or by calling 806-787-1450.

Pink Initiative is a community of wedding industry professionals passionate about funding awareness, outreach, education and research for breast cancer. “During our first twelve months, Pink Initiative’s board of directors and our growing group of vendor sponsors have taken our message to heart proudly displaying our logo on websites and blogs, spreading our message on Twitter, and kindly giving more than $7,000 thus far,” reported Emilie Sommer, founder of Pink Initiative and professional photographer with emilie inc.

Joyful Heart Design will also donate 10% of proceeds from all invitation and stationery items containing the color pink which are purchased during the month of October to Pink Initiative.

“I am honored to be a Pink Initiative sponsor and hope to inspire others with these products and encourage people to celebrate life now,” said JoDitt Williams, founder of Joyful Heart Design.

An updated report of funds raised to date can be found at http://pinkinitiative.org as well as a list of participating wedding vendors, fund raising ideas, and information on how to become a pink initiative sponsor.

About Joyful Heart Design
Texas-based Joyful Heart Design offers custom-designed invitations and stationery featuring JoDitt Williams’ original designs. While specializing in pocket wedding invitations and matching stationery for the modern bride, the company also offers save the date cards, bridal shower invitations, baby shower invitations, graduation announcements, and personalized stationery. Joyful Heart Design’s mission is to help people celebrate all the joyful moments of life whether it be a special occasion, like a wedding or the birth of a child, or simply taking a moment to show appreciation to someone they care about.

For more information, please contact:
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info@joyfulheartdesign.com
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Unlike a lot of custom invitation shops who have processing times of 4 – 8 weeks or longer, the processing times at Joyful Heart Design are only 2 – 3 weeks. So, you still have time to order your wedding invitations for your winter wedding in December, January or February.

If you are looking for a unique, contemporary, colorful, chic, non-traditional winter wedding invitation, you might like my Sassy Snowflakes Pocket Wedding Invitation with its stylized snowflake design.

It is shown here in light blue, navy blue and white, but the invitation is completely customizable. You can choose from around 50 pocketfold colors, and the invitation & inserts can be printed using any color inks imaginable. They can even be printed in metallic silver or gold inks. You also get to choose your fonts. I have a large list of fonts for you to choose from so you are sure to find the perfect fonts to suit the style of your wedding.

Some polar color combinations for snowflake theme weddings are:

• light blue, navy and white
• light blue, navy and silver
• tiffany blue and silver
• purple, lavender and silver
• purple, ice blue and white
• purple and gold
• hot pink, light pink and white
• silver, black and white
• gold and white

To purchase a sample or get more information, visit JoyfulHeartDesign.com.

On this anniversary of the tragic terrorist attacks of 9/11/01, as we are honoring all the heroes and remembering those who lost their lives on that tragic day, do you think about your loved ones and wonder if they will know how much you love them even after you are gone?

I used to wonder, but I don’t wonder anymore. I am confident that they will know because I am taking measures to make sure they know. Using this amazing online greeting card system, I am able to create cards and letters to my loved ones and then have them sent out at a later date. (Real, PRINTED greeting cards sent through the US Postal Service, NOT ecards!) With this system, I can even create custom cards using my own photos in a snap.

We purchase life insurance to provide for our loved ones financially, but how many of us make preparations to provide for our loved ones emotionally in the event that tragedy strikes.

Do you have words of wisdom you’d like to give to your child or to a younger brother or sister when they become teenagers… and when they fall in love… or when they get their heart broken? You don’t have to wait. You can write down those words of wisdom now and have them delivered on a specific date in the future.

So, as you are planning your wedding, plan for the future as well.

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