What is the Proper Wedding Invitation Etiquette?
Deciding who to send wedding invitations to is no easy task, and you may wonder whether or not to send a wedding invitation to someone who probably cannot attend your wedding. Here are some basic rules of thumb for invitation etiquette.
It seems rather pointless to send an invitation to someone who is not likely able to attend your wedding. If you know that someone is busy on the weekend of your wedding, or is not likely to make the trip to your wedding location, you might not see the point in giving them an invitation. But proper wedding invitation etiquette dictates that you send them an invitation regardless of whether or not they are able to attend.
It is a good practice to invite everyone you are planning on inviting to the wedding, even if you know ahead of time that they probably won’t make it. The last thing you want is to have someone wondering why they did not receive an invitation to your wedding. They may not realize that you were trying to do them a favor by not sending them one and they may actually take the fact that you didn’t send an invitation personally.
The proper wedding invitation etiquette is to send an invitation anyway. Let the guests make the decision of whether or not they want to attend the wedding. You never know, they may decide to change their plans, or they may want to send a gift even though they cannot attend. Either way, the point is that it is their decision to make, so be courteous.
Ultimately, when you are making a list of people to invite to the wedding, you should send out invitations to everyone on that list. You should probably consider whether or not your guests will be able to attend when deciding on a location, but after the location has been chosen, you still should plan on inviting everyone you think of if you know that you’d enjoy their company. This is a kind gesture and is part of proper wedding invitation etiquette.
