Glemham Hall Open Day

The Leaf Press had a lovely time at the Glemham Hall Open Day last Sunday, chatting to lots of couples about their plans for their wedding and showing them The Leaf Press's wedding stationery ranges. Here are a few photos from the day.

A decorated table, with The Leaf Press's menu and place cards

Part of The Leaf Press's display

Cafe style tables with the brilliant Chris Woods greeting visitors in the background

Can you spot the dessert/cake table towards the right of the shot?

Everyone loved the FolkEast 'daffs in wellies' display!

Wedding invitation wording ideas - part 3 - How do you include the guests' names on your wedding invitations?

Welcome to part 3 of The Leaf Press's wedding stationery wording guide, which looks at how to include the guests' names on your wedding invitations.

Please refer back to part 1 of the guide to see an example of a wedding invitation layout.

Traditionally, the invitation wording requests 'the pleasure of your company' and the guests' names are handwritten in the top left-hand corner of the invitation:

If you don't wish to do this, or the design of your invitation will not allow it, you can consider addressing the envelope quite specifically:

Alternatively, you can choose to have a dotted line for writing the name(s) of the guests on. In this instance, the wording changes to 'request the pleasure of the company of' followed by the dotted line:

Finally, most wedding stationery providers offer a service whereby the guests names are printed, usually at an additional cost. The Leaf Press offers this for 25p per invitation. It's a way of making your guests feel special!

A note about children:

Some couples choose not to have children at their wedding. If this is the case you need to make sure that the names on the invitation reflect this e.g. don't put 'The Carters' if you don't want the Carter children to attend. It is worth noting that some may assume children are invited unless you state otherwise.


I hope you have found this guide useful. I would welcome comments and am happy to answer any questions you have. Click here to e-mail The Leaf Press or here to visit The Leaf Press website.

Wedding invitation wording ideas - part 2 - who should wedding invitations be sent from and how are they worded?

Welcome to part two of The Leaf Press's wedding stationery wording guide. This will look at who wedding invitations should be sent from and how this part of the text is worded. The text quoted in the examples below forms part of a wedding invitation, please refer back to part 1 of this guide to see a full wedding invitation layout.

You will usually start your wedding invite by saying who it is from. Traditionally, invitations were sent from the Bride's parents and this is still the case for many weddings. Some couples however, especially when already living together, decide to send invitations from themselves. Additionally, even when the invitation is being sent from parents, family composition may dictate that different wording is required.

Here are some examples of different ways you can phrase your wording. With any of the names, how the name is written is down to to personal choice – for instance, in the first example it could be Mr John Reynolds, John Reynolds or Mr J Reynolds. Whatever format you use, use this format for all names.

The invitation is sent from the bride's parents, who are married:

Mr and Mrs John Reynolds

request the pleasure of your company

at the wedding of their daughter ...

The invitation is sent from the bride's parents, who are divorced:

Mr John Reynolds and Mrs Sandra Phillips

request the pleasure of your company

at the wedding of their daughter ...

(if both parents still have the same surname it would be Mr John Reynolds and Mrs Sandra Reynolds)

The invitation is sent from one of the bride's parents:

Mrs Sandra Reynolds

requests the pleasure of your company

at the wedding of her daughter ...

The invitation is sent from the bride's mother/father and step-parent:

Mr and Mrs Stephen Reynolds

request the pleasure of your company

at the wedding of her daughter

The invitation is sent from both sets of parents:

Mr and Mrs John Reynolds and Mr and Mrs Stephen Hobland

request the pleasure of your company

at the wedding of ...

The invitation is sent from someone other than the bride's parents:

Mr Joseph Taylor

requests the pleasure of the company

at the wedding of his niece ...

The invitation is sent from the couple themselves:

Elizabeth Reynolds and Mark Hobland

request the pleasure of your company

at their wedding ...

or

Together with their families/parents

Elizabeth Reynolds and Mark Hobland

request the pleasure of your company

at their wedding ...

I hope this information is helpful. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to email The Leaf Press.

Wedding invitation wording ideas

The Leaf Press is happy to help customers who require advice with wording their wedding invitations. I thought it would be useful to compile this information in a guide which I hope a wider audience will find useful.

The guide is in three parts:

1. An illustrated example of a wedding invitation layout
2. Who should wedding invitations be sent from and how are they worded?
3. How do you include the guests' names on your wedding invitations?

Part 1: An illustrated example of a wedding invitation layout

So you've chosen the design for your wedding invitations, sorted out the colour scheme and have a list of who to invite. All that's left to do now is decide on the wording to use on your invitations. This guide is intended to give you lots of ideas for wording and layout to assist you with writing the text for your invites.

The picture below shows a typical layout for wedding invitation wording. Note the following:

• The bride and groom's names are emphasised - this can be done by using a different font, capital letters, a different colour or a larger font.
• In this example the main text is centre aligned with the RSVP information left aligned. Depending on the design, you may wish to use different alignment. For example, with The Leaf Press's dandelion wedding invitations, the design is on the left hand side so the wording is most effectively displayed with right alignment.
• The RSVP address is in smaller writing and separated from the main text.
• This layout could also be used for an evening invitation. The venue location would replace the church location, the time would change and the the text from 'and afterwards at ...' onward would be removed.

Please click on the picture to view it in a larger size:

This example uses open punctuation, which minimises use of punctuation marks. Open punctuation is regarded as easier to read. Full punctuation - commas/full stops at the end of sentences and in names, addresses etc - is less commonly used. Whichever style of punctuation you use, the most important thing is that you are consistent and use the same style throughout.

Next week parts 2 and 3 of the wedding invitation wording ideas guide will be published, so please visit the blog again.