Informal wedding invitations

Writing invitations for informal weddings is a bit different than invitations for more formal ones. Since we have encountered many that have struggled to piece their invite together, we have provided some tips on writing an informal wedding invite below.

Does “keep it simple stupid” ring a bell? Well, KISS couldn’t be more applicable to informal wedding invites. Most people forget that they have to include a significant amount of information in their invites and thus proceed to cram it with useless junk. Overcrowding your invite is one of the worst things you can do. Not only may you confuse guests, but you may also encourage them to gloss over important information. Find a special quote or an excerpt from a poem, select a place for it in your invite and wrap up the process. There’s no need to add additional reading material.

While addressing your potential guest in the invite, feel free to use lower diction wording – just don’t exaggerate. You want to avoid using slang words or any other words that could be considered inappropriate.

Finally, don’t focus too much attention on the small details. Many people spend days trying to decide whether a particular part of their informal invite needs to be capitalized or italicized. These types of things aren’t important to us. If we were writing a more formal invite, we would dedicate much more attention to these smaller details.

As a final reminder, be sure to mail out your invitations several weeks prior to your wedding. You don’t want to procrastinate on the wedding invitation process and have the invites mailed out a mere week before the wedding. You need to give your guests plenty of notice before you hold your wedding. Otherwise, you may find that attendance is minimal. Get working on your invites as quickly as possible to ensure that everyone on your guest list makes it to your wedding.

Quiz the strength of your relationship

I read a post by a girl that she had an ideal relationship for more than three years. The boyfriend had initiated the relationship and wanted them to commit to each other forever. One day suddenly he came up and said that he liked another girl. After some days he said that he was no more seeing the other new girl and wanted to continue with the old love. This behavior has confused this girl and she wanted to know about the strength of her relationship. Have you quizzed yourself about the strength of your relationship?

Quiz your Love - to begin with quiz your love for each other. Write some questions about your mutual attraction and find out the answers of both of you. Do you love him/her more or less compared to the beginning? Does he/she irritate you now? Do you care for each other? Quiz about all the aspects of love.

Quiz your dependence - find out how much dependent you are on each other. Quiz yourself about how much you always need him/her? Quiz your partner. Are you both dependent on each other or it makes no difference if the other partner is absent?

Quiz your commitment - quiz yourself and your partner about commitment. Is that real or is it like a sand castle? Whether it can be broken easily? Quiz all the pointers that give you an answer about your commitment to each other.

Quiz yourself about your relationship. Find out the pluses and minuses. Find out the ways to make your relationship very strong. Otherwise you may be in for a rude shock, like the girl I talked about.

Refreshing your relationship spend quiet time together

Our lives are so busy that work and family responsibilities preclude very much quiet time with our mates. We are so weary when we finally fall into bed that we seldom take the time to really talk to each other or to nurture that specialness that is ours alone.

Look at your schedule and see where some quiet time together can be stolen from the world. If you needed to arrange an important meeting, you would make time. If you had a child in the hospital, you would most certainly make the time to spend hours there.

The time required doesn't have to be huge. The commitment to make that time does. This is the most important person in your life, not someone to be relegated to a list, somewhere below a business requirement and the PTA.

Snatch an hour here and an hour there just to be alone with your love, nurturing the uniqueness of the two of you. Take the kids to their grandparents or get a babysitter. Turn off your blackberry and your cell phone.

You can use your uninterrupted time to do anything you enjoy. Take a walk, or a drive, and talk about yourselves. Play word games or trivia on the Internet, laughing and communicating with each other as you did when you were dating so long ago. Listen to music that was popular when you met and reminisce about the good old days.

Talk about movies you've seen, books you've read, sports, politics, or national events. Talk about plans for the future and how you see your lives together in a year, five years, ten. Talk about your problems and what you can do together to resolve them.

Plan when your next time together will be and what you are going to do. And do it.