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Useful informations

Here you will find some useful advices about weddings. Find out how easy is to plan your wedding without making any mistake!

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Invitations / participations

Invitations are an important element of element of wedding preparation.
Typogpraphers and stationery stores can provide a wide range of solutions from the creative
To the most sober or elegant ones to match with the tone of ceremony. The expertise of the typographer will aid you choose the best possible solution.

Traditionally, it’s the brides’ family that takes care of the invitations, buying them and sending to all the guests. Nowaydays it’s common practice for the bride and groom to take care of the invitations toghether.

If you choose to let a specialized agency plan the wedding, it will be their responsibility to create the invitations, participations and send them to the guests.

There are two kinds of participations:
the wedding announce, sent to all of the friends and family
the participation with an invitation to the reception or wedding breakfast.

Remember that if you send an invitation to a family, you are inviting all the members of that family. It’s best to make clear who you are inviting.

The invitations should be chosen four or five months before the wedding. The participations shoud be sent between two months and twenty days before the wedding.
Any participations without an invitation can be sent later.

The address on the envelope should be handwritten on the lower right corner.
Write the christian name and family name of the person you are inviting, but don’t include any qualification except for regular soldiers. The address should be complete and comprehensive of postal code.

When sending a participation to a couple, write the name of the man before. If the couple is married you can write for example: Mario and Luisa Rossi.

It’s best to keep some spare participations handy, just in case you need to invite someone that was left out.

If the engagement is broken after the participations are sent, the couple should send a telegram, informing the guests that the wedding has been canceled.

To the guests:

When you receive a participation with an invitation you should inform the couple whether or not you intend to attend the wedding. Give this information at least 30 days before the marriage so that the couple can count the exact number of guests.

If you received the participation, send a telegram or call the couple to send your wishes.