Wedding Invitation Wording

If you’ve found your way to our site, chances are good that you’ve found wedding invitation wording to be a bit puzzling. There’s nothing to worry about - millions of people are absolutely clueless as to what exact steps they need to take to properly word their wedding invite (and thus convey to guests pertinent information). As if wording a standard invite isn’t difficult on its own, there’s some other quirks to wording an invite that can make it even more difficult. While we’d love to help everyone jump over all these obstacles, we can only take each of them one step at a time. So without further ado, let’s delve into the topic of wording a wedding invite for only a small portion of guests invited to a wedding.

As the host of your wedding, you have a responsibility to ensure that guests are comfortable and are enjoying the wedding experience. Thus, the last thing you want to do is place some select guests on the spot simply because they’re not invited to the wedding reception. This would be an utterly low move, and one that could easily discourage other guests from attending your wedding reception. Fortunately, there have been ways devised to avoid this type of nuisance at a wedding.

One of the simplest steps you can take to invite only certain people to your wedding reception is to print out small index-like cards alerting the particular people of your request for their presence at the reception. We don’t recommend doing this in your actual wedding invitation wording, but rather on a separate card or sheet of paper. Alternatively, you can make separate invites for those who you wish to attend the reception. These invites can have modified wedding invitation wording to let the recipient know that they’re invited to the reception.

While many have successfully invited only certain people to either their wedding ceremony or subsequent reception (by modifying their wedding invitation wording or sending out an alternative invite) it’s not guaranteed that the move will resonate well with all the wedding’s attendees. Some people find excluding others from events of such importance to be rather disrespectful. If you encounter one of the individuals among the attendees, be prepared to at least slightly explain yourself. Those wishing to avoid such unpleasant conversations should seriously think about the implications involved in excluding others from either the wedding ceremony or reception.

If you’ve determined that excluding someone out of a portion of the wedding is a must, be sure to word the wedding invite carefully. Wedding invitation wording that’s modified for the specific purpose of conveying different information to separate parties can be hurtful if worded incorrectly. As you’re writing invites for those who you don’t wish to attend a part of the wedding, you should do your best to make no mention of the reception in your wedding invitation wording. Putting a slight word in about it, and then letting the recipient know that he/she is not invited to attend can be easily regarded as an inconsiderate gesture.  Exercise respect and common sense, and you should be fine.