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These articles answer the questions that turn up between “we are getting married” and “how many are actually coming”: what to write, when to send it, how to collect replies, and how to seat everyone.
Twenty-eight wordings you can copy, for the child's name, the parents, the godparents, the church time and the lunch after, plus secular naming ceremonies, dedications and the joint christening of two children.
Two celebrations, one day, one invitation. Here is how to word the opening, name the child beside the couple, lay the hours out in order, and tell a guest they are invited to only part of it.
Twenty-two lines you can lift straight into the page, plus the parts an eighteenth usually gets wrong: the hour it ends, the door policy, what to say about the bar, and how your parents fit in.
A civil ceremony fills a small room for fifteen minutes. Here is how to word the invitation to it — the quiet wedding now, the ceremony-then-lunch, the witnesses you ask, and the announcement that follows an elopement.
The five dates between the save-the-date and the venue's final headcount, with the interval that belongs to each, what happens when you get it wrong, and how a link changes the arithmetic.
The order the list is actually built in — capacity first, names second — with the household row that keeps the count honest, the wording for plus-ones and children, and what the finished list hands to the venue.
The exact words for asking people to reply, for chasing the ones who never did, and for turning an invitation down kindly, plus what a reply has to collect before it is any use to you.
What has to be true before you start, how many people actually fit at a table, where the parents and the children and the colleagues go, and the numbers your venue will ask for a week beforehand.
For the person doing the organising, not for someone reading about organising. Every article starts from a question you ask once in your life and nobody answers properly: how to word an invitation when the couple are already parents, what to do about the guests who never reply, how many seats to leave spare so the plan survives the morning of the wedding. They are long because the short answer already exists on ten other sites and helps nobody.
Wording you can copy, not principles. The wording guides carry dozens of ready-written lines, grouped by the parts an invitation actually has — who is hosting, the request, the ceremony, the reception, the closing — with a note on which situation each one suits. The rest carry the messages that usually go missing: the one that asks for a reply, the one that chases it without nagging, and the one a guest can use to decline gracefully. Written by the team that builds the product, and corrected when reality disagrees with them.
The wording, ready to use
Pick the event, open a design with your names in it and write the wording straight into the page, with ready-made options next to every field. You pay only when you publish.
