Wedding Communication to Be Mailed After Your Engagement
- The announcement of your engagement.
- Invitation to an engagement party, if there is one.
- Invitation to the bridal shower (usually a smaller number of invitees)
- Announcement of the wedding
- Invitation to the wedding
- Invitation to the reception
(often, #5 and #6 appear on one invitation, but invitations to the wedding only are sometimes sent out without invitation to the reception).
- Thank you notes for gifts
- Wedding programs
The traditional bachelor party doesn't usually involve printed invitations or cards, although some may choose to send them because they add to the fun. With some couples combining genders for a bride and groom shower and others creating a new take on the bachelor-bachelorette party, you may find other reasons for invitations.
Important Invitations for bridal showers and bachelor parties.
For bridal parties and bachelor-bachelorette shindigs, your best friends and closest family members will be attending, often the same people who will make up the bridal party and groom's men. That being the case, it makes sense that they will all be attending the wedding and the reception. This is the core of your wedding guests—the inner circle. These are the guys who will be getting the man to the altar no matter how hung over they all are—and the women who will help you find your pearls and manage your bustle while you take a last-minute tinkle in the church's Ladies Room. Later on in this book, we'll cover some important areas in the delicate art of leading a bridal team to success.
If you plan ahead and order all your announcements, invitations and Thank You notes at once, you'll get a lot of work done in advance. If you're following a six to twelve month plan, you may send out announcements first because they don't need a date, and you may not have set one yet. In fact, it's probably better not to give the exact date and place on announcements, or they may be mistaken for invitations.
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