Addressing Wedding Invitations

The process of addressing wedding invitations should be a deliberate process. It should involve careful planning. There is no point to addressing invitations, if the information in the address is not correct.

In July of 2006, I was asked to address the invitations for my son s wedding. For one small group of addresses, I supplied the address information. I had obtained that information from a corresponding secretary. My husband and I belonged to the Faith group with that same secretary. I was confident of the accuracy in my information.

I had no way to judge the accuracy of the information that my husband gave me. Some of the invitations were supposed to go to friends of his mother. I had to address those wedding invitations. Sometimes his mother failed to include a zip code in the address that she gave us. Then I would need to ask my husband to call her and to see if she knew the zip code.

Addressing wedding invitations can take a lot of time. I think I spent some of my time fruitlessly, because I did not always get accurate information. Once when my husband called his mother about a zip code, she did not know what it was. My husband was in a hurry to mail out the invitations. He had me use a zip code that he thought was right. I do not know if that guest received his or her wedding invitation.

Another time my husband asked me to address an invitation to a friend who had moved to Las Vegas. I made an envelope with the requested address. That guest did not come to the wedding. I learned later that he had not been home during the time when we sent the invitation.

Addressing wedding invitations, even if done with the most accurate information, can not always guarantee that the intended recipient will get the invitation. The expected guest might be out of town at the time when the invitation arrives. If a guest learns too late about a wedding, he or she is apt to decline the invitation.

For me, addressing wedding invitations was an act of love. I like to write and be a bit creative. I do not like struggling to perfect the style of an address when I am not sure if the address information is correct. Still, I would be more than willing to address invitations for my second son s wedding.