Traditional wording
Use this as a guide to help you word your wedding invitations:
Wedding given by brides parents
Mr and Mrs Thomas McCourt
request the pleasure of your company/
request the company of
at the marriage of their daughter
Katherine to Mark Old
at Plaxtol Parish Church, Tonbridge
on Saturday 4th November 2003 at 2.30pm
and at the reception afterwards
at Alexander House Hotel
Wedding given by bride and groom
Katherine McCourt and Mark Old
request the pleasure of your company
Wedding given by jointly by parents of bride and groom
Mr and Mrs Thomas McCourt
and
Mr and Mrs James Old
request the pleasure of your company
Wedding given by divorced parents of bride
Mr Thomas McCourt and Mrs Jane McCourt
request the pleasure of your company
Wedding given by brides’s divorced mother (now re-married) and brides’s father
Mr Thomas McCourt and Mrs Jane North
(or Mrs Jane North and Mr Thomas McCourt)
request the pleasure of your company
Wedding given by brides’s divorced/widowed mother
Mrs Jane McCourt
requests the pleasure of your company
Wedding given by brides’s divorced mother (now remarried) and her husband
Mr and Mrs Robert North
request the pleasure of your company
Alternative informal wording
Mr and Mrs Thomas McCourt
are delighted to invite
to the marriage of their daughter
Katherine to Mark Old
at Plaxtol Parish Church, Tonbridge
on Saturday 4th November 2003 at 2.30pm
and afterwards at Alexander House Hotel
(If wedding and reception is held at the same venue, simply end with
on Saturday 4th November 2003 at 2.30pm
at Alexander House Hotel
followed by dinner and evening reception)
Service of Blessing
Mr and Mrs Thomas McCourt
request the pleasure of your company
at a Service of Blessing
following the marriage of their daughter
Katherine to Mark Old…
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