Wedding Shower Invitations
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Wedding Shower is a gift giving ceremony to bride before the wedding. Every bride is showered by friends and family with a lot of gifts for her future life. Often it is coordinated by the bridesmaids. Guests are invited who bring gifts for the bride and groom. Usually, it is organized four to six weeks before the wedding.
Wedding Shower Invitation should be send four weeks before the shower . They are usually sent by the hosts i.e. close friends of the bride or bridesmaids or female wedding attendants or now-a-days, female siblings along with her friends.
There are many ways to prepare wedding shower invitations.
- Contents - A wedding shower invitation must consist the bride's name (also groom's if it is a mixed shower), date, time, venue, RSVP details, registry, theme and dress code. An invitation must provide all the necessary details so that the guests have a clear idea what to expect.
- Format - Be creative. You can prepare your own invitations There are various formatted invitations available at the local stores. Buy them and simply fill in the blanks.
For example,
Please Join us
for the wedding shower
honoring
.......................................................................................................
on ...................................................................................................
at .....................................................................................................
RSVP .............................................................................................
Registered at ..................................................................................
You can also format these invitations according to the theme of your shower.
Besides, there are traditional invitations sent out by the hosts ,which are very formal and resemble the traditional wedding invitation.
Other forms of a wedding shower invitations are funny, crafty and informal.
You can also craft these invitations in various shapes such as silhouette, wedding ring, diamond, dancing bride and groom, hugging bride and groom, etc. Any imagery that is related to the wedding or the bride and groom can be used as a wedding invitation.
- Wording - A bridal shower wording need not be formal. Rather, it should be chic, trendy and stylish. For example, you can write funny lines like Vanessa is marrying Joseph soon, let's shower her with the gifts for honeymoon! Or Rebecca's big day is looming near, let's give her a hearty cheer!
- Mailing - The wedding shower invitations should be sent out at least 4 weeks in advance so that the out of station guests get the time to make arrangements for the accommodation and travel if necessary. If there are no out station guests, 3 weeks' notice is enough. Make sure you leave at least one week buffer time for the guests to send RSVP. To make this quick, you can ask them to respond through e-mail.
- Samples - We are providing some wording samples for your benefit:
Please join us
for the bridal shower
honoring
Audrey Williams
and
Aidan Bingham
at
Hotel L'Orient
on
19th Feb, 2012
at
06:00 pm
They are registered at
.......................................... (store name)
RSVP / Regrets Only to
.......................................... (phone number and e-mail id with name)
OR
It Started With a Kiss
and it has come to this
Jennifer and Oliver
are getting hitched!
Let's honor them
at
Evelyn's place
on 22nd March, 2012
at
03:00 pm
Registry
.......................................... (store name)
RSVP / Regrets Only to
.......................................... (phone number and e-mail id with name)
OR
We request the pleasure of your attendance
to the wedding shower
honoring
Alice Carlisle
and
Wyatt Reynolds
The shower will be held at our residence
............................................................... (address)
on
13th May, 2012
at
11:00 am
We seek only your blessings and good wishes for the couple!
These are the examples of poetry, formal and informal wordings for a wedding shower invitation. Now-a-days, it is common to invite the groom and his friends for the wedding shower so that it becomes a family night-in rather than being a girls-only party. Hence, we have mentioned groom's name in each example. You can modify these examples according to your requirement and theme and create your very own invitation.
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