The Don’ts of Wedding Invitations

In last week’s article of Wedding Invitation Ideas – “The Do’s of Wedding Invitations”, we brought you insight into what you should keep in mind when planning and designing your wedding invitations. In this week’s instalment, we bring you what you should not do when it comes to wedding invitations, and points to be mindful or have noted.

1. Don’t Include Too Much Information On The Invite:  Your wedding invitation should be short and concise, whilst providing all the necessary information. Things that you should always include in the wedding invite are the date and time of the ceremony and the reception, the venue, invitees, the RSVP details, and dress code.
2. Don’t Forget To Use Inserts Maps: While accommodations and directions information is not always mandatory, your guests will appreciate it. Therefore, its considered polite and a nice gesture to ensure that guests will be given options of accommodation if they are coming out of town, and directions to get to the venue.
3. Don’t Include Registry Or Gift Information: Including registry or gift information on the wedding invitations itself is somewhat ‘tacky’ and not elegant and classy, which is what an wedding invite should be. , the best place to include that kind of information is with the shower invite
4. Don’t Have A Standby Guest List: It’s generally considered  rude to have a secondary guest list, in the event a number of people RSVP back with their regrets. Since the wedding invitations for that crowd will have to be sent out after the RSVPs are received, in this case the standby guest list invitees will be notified or note that they are last minute slots.
5. Don’t Use Labels On Envelopes: Pasting on printed labels can be the opposite of elegant. After putting in so much time and effort into the wedding invitation, it would be a waste to make it less elegant with a printed white envelope label. It is best to handwrite them, or simply have them printed on the envelope itself, as DreamDay Invitations does on all their envelopes.
6. Don’t Write Anything On The Envelopes Once It Is Sealed: Sealing the envelopes and then later handwriting the address information might make the whole writing experience and quality of the handwriting deter drastically. Therefore, handwrite the address information prior to sealing the wedding invitation envelope. If you opt to have the information printed onto the envelope as DreamDay Invitations does, then this will not be a problem.
7. Don’t Email Any Information: Though some consider it a good idea to send the save the date information via email, it lessens the effect of sending out a wedding invitation itself. When it comes to the wedding invite information, please opt out of emailing invitees the details.
8. Don’t Forget To Include The Dress Code: many people don’t think too much about the dress code, but it’s very important to include this information, for either the bridal couple to ensure everyone is appropriately dressed so that their wedding pictures come out well and also for the invitee to not feel conscious of themselves they are not dressed accordingly.
9. Don’t Use Too Many Abbreviations: The use of abbreviations is related to wedding invitation etiquette. Unless it is the likes of Mr., Mrs., Dr and Jnr., you should limit the use of abbreviations. The article on Wedding Invitation Etiquette will offer you more insight on what you should keep in mind.