You are cordially invited to the nuptials between X and Z

Out,_Vile_Jelly

The only people likely to take any notice of the wording and stationery colour/design will be a certain type of woman planning their own wedding. Everyone else will just look at the name and date, note it in their diary and bin it. So really not worth wasting time stewing over the exact wording.

maman

Andrew_Ryan_89 wrote: »

The above is the beginning of our Save the Date invitations. Is it grammatically correct?

To answer your question, I believe it is grammatically correct.


It's also hugely pretentious and outdated but they've obviously bought into the whole wedding package!

Mojisola

lika_86 wrote: »

A Save the Date card is just that, it's not an invitation, just a heads up to keep it free.

What is it if not an invitation? Do people send out Save The Date cards to people who aren't invited to the wedding?

TBagpuss

I agree that the wording is very formal for a Save the Date, but if you want to keep to that wording then it would more properly be ;

"You are cordially invited to the nuptials of X and Z"

However, i'd suggest that you keep the save the date simpler

"We're planning our wedding - please save [date] / evening of [date] - more information to follow
x & Z "

If you want to go formal for the invitation itself then the traditional wording is normally
[name & name ](traditionally brides parents, but you can leave this out and just go striaght to 'you are invited to')
invite you to the wedding [ or evening reception to celebrate the wedding] of [their daughter] (again, you can leave this out if the invite isn't going out in the parents name, or replace with son for a same-sex marriage
[X]
to
[Z]
at [time and place]

Gloomendoom

Mojisola wrote: »

What is it if not an invitation? Do people send out Save The Date cards to people who aren't invited to the wedding?

Perhaps they haven't made their final guest selection yet.

Mojisola

Gloomendoom wrote: »

Perhaps they haven't made their final guest selection yet.

So, later on, some Save The Date recipients get a Sorry You Didn't Make The Final Cut card? :rotfl:

lika_86

Mojisola wrote: »

What is it if not an invitation? Do people send out Save The Date cards to people who aren't invited to the wedding?

What I obviously mean is it's not an invitation in the sense that it's not what people being invited to a wedding usually expect to receive - ie. something containing details of who is invited, the location of the venue, timings, travel details, accommodation, gift list etc.

It should, of course, be taken as an invitation to attend, otherwise why bother. The point is that save the dates just act as a way to remind people to keep it free.

maman

TBagpuss wrote: »

I agree that the wording is very formal for a Save the Date, but if you want to keep to that wording then it would more properly be ;

"You are cordially invited to the nuptials of X and Z"

https://www.google.co.uk/?gws_rd=ssl#q=nuptial


That was my first thought but apparently not. Maybe the stationery people rely on Google too!;)

pink_petal

We got married on a Sunday and we wanted people to be able to arrange time off on the Monday if they wanted so we sent save the dates (with our xmas cards to save on postage!)

We just kept it simple:

A & B are getting married
Save the date (insert date here)
Invitation to follow

Only thing I'd say is you have to be sure you definitely want to invite people before you send them. We sent in Dec and by the time our invites went out in June there was one person I was wishing I hadn't sent one too! haha!

lika_86

Here is the Debrett's view on Save the Date cards http://www.debretts.com/weddings/engagements-and-invitations/setting-wedding-date/save-dates