Once you have selected the look of your invitations and decided formal verses informal, your wording will vary from specific rules for formal ones and a bit more creative leeway for casual affairs. Since formal weddings have more rules, we will focus on them.

You’re engaged! Now the fun begins. You know EXACTLY what kind of wedding you want (you’ve been planning it since kindergarten, right?). Then at the stationery store, you leaf through binder after binder until each sample is a swirl of color and a blur of words. The gravity of this first step overwhelms you. The [...]