My fiance and I would like to go ahead and have our wedding lisence signed by our pastor but have an actual ceremony a few months later. I’d like to have both a ceremony and reception but how do I word the inviations if we’re atually already married?
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7 Comments Received
July 30th, 2010 @9:04 pm
The word you need is celebrate. Invite them to celebrate your marriage, etc
August 1st, 2010 @6:10 am
you word it so that it’s clear the ceremony is blessing the marriage.
something along the line of
Jane and David Doe were wed in a private ceremony on blah blah and cordially invite family and friends to a public blessing and celebration of their marriage at blah blah. reception to follow.
it’s a very rough idea, you can punch it up.
I’m sorry, I looked for and couldn’t find the site that has wording suggestions for unique situations on wedding invitations.
August 3rd, 2010 @6:43 am
iam really sorry for not inviting you for my marriage .. its happend alla of a sudden.
Now i would be appreciated if you come to our marriage party this week end.
Thanks,
This type of Invitation will gona bring happiness and closeness with you freinds.
August 6th, 2010 @12:57 am
This is a knotty one. I don’t care for “fake weddings” in which there isn’t a marriage taking place, but I understand that couples can have personal or financial reasons for needing to be legally wed. If your pastor will agree to be a part of your scheme, I suggest you marry secretly — only you, your spouse, the pastor to know. Then have the pageantry and celebratory activities to let the world in on your secret.
I’m not chiding you for wanting to receive gifts; this sort of self interest is very human and natural. But when the celebration is several months after the event, it’s just not a wedding any more and people tend to give much less generously, tend to take your party much less seriously.
Word your invitations very carefully. Even if you have kept your marriage a secret, it is still very dishonest to ask people to “the marriage of” when no marriage is taking place. If you were just having a party and not a ceremony, you could simply ask “to celebrate the marriage of” without mentioning when exactly that marriage occurred. But having a ceremony with no marriage taking place is going to be a difficulty for you. Could you forego the church ceremony and have sort of “public reaffirmation of vows” pagaent as part of the reception?
August 6th, 2010 @2:55 pm
My S.I.L wanted to get married in a specific church but as both of them are divorced the church wouldn’t allow it so they got married in the Registry Office and then got the marriage “blessed” in church, however, the “blessing” actually took the course of a marriage, “do you Rachel take Paul” etc and when the vicar announced, “I now pronounce you man and wife” they kissed and we applauded.
It wasn’t general knowledge that they got married in the registry office and they wanted it kept like this so, apart from the lucky few, all people think that 7 September Rachel and Paul got married, not 5 August.
Ever heard of the saying “what people don’t know won’t hurt them” – works here.
Go ahead and have your wedding and then invite people to “your wedding” when you are ready.
Good luck.
KD
August 7th, 2010 @6:25 am
Not sure you have to tell anyone anything different.
Paperwork is paperwork
A wedding is a celebration of two people coming together in front of friends and family
August 8th, 2010 @4:31 pm
Once already wed, the second ceremony becomes a vow renewal . . . not a wedding. Vow renewals are simpler and more intimate than a wedding ceremony.
The honour of your presence
is requested at the reaffirmation
of the wedding vows of
NAMES
on DATE
YEAR
at TIME
LOCATION
ADDRESS
CITY, STATE
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