Seven things to check before you send invitations
From the date to the phone view: a short checklist to make sure your guests can find every important detail before you press send.
When your invitation is finished, go through it as if you were receiving it for the first time. These seven points will help you spot the small gaps.
- Names and date. Are both names spelled correctly? Do the date and time match when the wedding really starts?
- Who is invited to what. Is it clear whether you expect guests at the ceremony, the evening celebration or both?
- Venue and address. Give the exact address as well as the town or village. Check the destination in a route planner, especially if the venue’s name appears in more than one place.
- The order of the programme. Do the times follow one another? Take special care with anything planned after midnight, which falls on the next date.
- Photos and your own wording. Does the crop show what you want to show? Is any sample text still sitting where your own story should be? Ideas for the wording: what to write on a wedding invitation.
- Replies. Is the deadline clear? (Tips: how to ask for RSVPs.) Send yourselves a test reply and check that it arrives.
- Phone view. Open it on your own phone and on someone else’s. The text should be readable, the programme easy to reach and the reply form easy to fill in.
Ask someone else to read it
A relative or friend will quickly notice if a sentence is unclear or an address is missing. Ask them to find out, without any explanation from you, when and where they need to arrive.
The Envelopio editor flags most of these slips by itself: the pre-send checklist warns you if the sample couple’s names, the sample date or an illustration are still in the invitation.
