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Wedding invitation. A wedding invitation is a letter asking the recipient to attend a wedding. It is typically written in the formal, third-person language and mailed five to eight weeks before the wedding date. Like any other invitation, it is the privilege and duty of the host—historically, for younger brides in Western culture, the mother ...
Wedding reception. A wedding reception is a party usually held after the completion of a marriage ceremony as hospitality for those who have attended the wedding, hence the name reception: the couple receive society, in the form of family and friends, for the first time as a married couple. Hosts provide their choice of food and drink, although ...
The host sends invitations to the wedding guests, usually one to two months before the wedding. Invitations may most formally be addressed by hand to show the importance and personal meaning of the occasion. Large numbers of invitations may be mechanically reproduced. As engraving was the highest quality printing technology available in the ...
RSVP is an initialism derived from the French phrase "Répondez s'il vous plaît", [ 1] meaning "Please respond" (literally "Respond, if it pleases you" ), to require confirmation of an invitation. The initialism "RSVP" is no longer used much in France, where it is considered formal and old-fashioned. In France, it is now more common to use ...
A matchbook is a small paperboard folder (known as a matchcover) enclosing a quantity of matches and having a coarse striking surface on the exterior. The folder is opened to access the matches, which are attached in a comb-like arrangement and must be torn away before use in contrast to a matchbox where the matches are loosely packed in the interior tray.
Walima. Walima ( Arabic: وليمة, romanized : Walīma ), or the wedding reception banquet, is the second of the two traditional parts of an Islamic wedding. The walima is performed after the nikah ( Arabic: نكاح) or marriage ceremony. It designates a feast in Arabic. The walima is used as a symbol to show domestic happiness in the ...
Personal wedding websites are used for various purposes, including communication with guests, sharing wedding photos and videos with those who could not attend, providing maps, hotel and destination information, bridal party and couple biographies, and profiling vendors. Increasingly, the sites are being used as tools for wedding planning.
The official invitation for the royal wedding, sent by the Lord Chamberlain. On 16 and 17 February, three sets of guest lists were sent out in the name of the Queen. Many guests or their successors in office who had been invited to the wedding of William's parents were not invited to the wedding.