guides for how to address invites?

[janinegirly]

well my invitations are in

so now it''s time for me to figure out the fun part: addressing all these boxes of envelopes! A good friend of mine will be doing the calligraphy..does anyone have a great reference guide or internet link on the proper way to address outer and inner envelopes? for people with guests, married couples, kids, living together,etc? Thank you!!

 

[cara]

If you are looking for formal, which seems right given the inner envelopes, try Crane Paper''s wedding guide

 

[janinegirly]

perfect, thank you! mostly i''m having issues with how to address invitations when several adult family members are living in same household. it sounds like anyone over 18 gets their own invitiation...yikes, that adds on a few more than expected!

 

[laine]

Date: 6/4/2007 10:20:14 AM
Author: janinegirly
perfect, thank you! mostly i''m having issues with how to address invitations when several adult family members are living in same household. it sounds like anyone over 18 gets their own invitiation...yikes, that adds on a few more than expected!

I think it sort of depends who the people are. If you are being very formal and correct, absolutely, everyone over 18 gets their own. If you''re a little more casual, and its adult children (like 18-21 years old) still living at home, I don''t think its a big deal to invite them with their parents. I''ve even been included on my parents invites and I don''t live at home, and I don''t think thats a big deal. If these are other adults, maybe siblings or parents of the head of household, I''d definitely send them their own.

 

[cara]

Yeah, my not really grown up 19yo brother got put on my father''s invite.

My FI''s cousin got her own STD at college, but now that she''s home for the summer she was added to her parent invite. We were thinking of letting her have a date, which would have meant her own invite.

You might be allowed to address adult siblings living together with one invite, so maybe you could just combine adult siblings at one house if they are close and don''t get date or guest invites.

I still get added to my parent''s invites and I''m almost thirty and haven''t lived at home for 8 years, so I don''t think that''s appropriate anymore. But whatcanyoudo.

 

[firebirdgold]

I did announcements not invites so it was less formal. But I asked my DH what the heck were the inner envelopes for and he said that if people wanted to keep the announcement/invite they''d throw away the outer envelope and keep it in the inner. So to make it more personal for family members I addressed the inner envelopes to ''Aunt Patty and Uncle Tom'', and ''Nana'', etc...