Wedding Announcement Wording Samples & Etiquette

The wedding announcement informs friends and family not invited to the wedding that the wedding took place.

If you are having a very small wedding, or a private ceremony with just you, your fiancé, witnesses, and a justice of the peace (or Elvis if you run off to Vegas), then you may want to send out wedding announcements.

Traditionally, wedding announcements are sent out by the parents of the bride, or the couple themselves.

Wedding announcements have similar wording to a wedding invitation (including the spelling out of dates), but with just the date, including the year, and the location of the ceremony -- not time or physical addresses.

It sounds simple, but it always helps to see examples, doesn't it?

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Here is an example of the wording for a wedding announcement sent out by the bride's parents:

Mr. and Mrs. Michael Lee Smith
announce the marriage of their daughter
Lisa Anne Smith
to
Mr. Richard Evan Jones
on Saturday the tenth of October
Two thousand and fourteen
Washington, DC

Miss Lisa Anne Smith
and
Mr. Richard Evan Jones
announce their marriage
on Saturday the tenth of October
Two thousand and fourteen
Washington, DC

Some people get “save the date” cards and wedding announcements confused and send out wedding announcements when they should be sending out “save the date” cards. Don’t make this mistake.

So when do you send out wedding announcements? Traditionally, the wedding announcements are mailed out the next working day after the wedding.

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