Simple Graduation Invitations Etiquette

The excitement can build towards graduation when you send out and also receive graduation invitations. Although the graduation invitations etiquette needs to be correct you can really inject the appropriate personality, fun and excitement in the invitation. That can be accomplished by a combination of brilliant wording and the right design for the invitations. You can of course complete the design work yourself or work with a professional. Dong the creative work yourself can be great fun. I love creating wording for invitations. I like to get to work on it and play around with different versions until I find just the right wording that also satisfies invitation etiquette.

I find the key to creating the right wording is to balance the competing aims of reflecting the graduate’s personality, the style of party , and the party theme. Once I have created wording which I think is good I just add in the details required to give guests all the information they need. However I do just start writing, I prefer to quickly make a first draft.

In terms of personalities, we have children who range from quiet to rather loud people. For our quieter daughter we worded the invitations from my husband and I, and the tone was quite low key. For our youngest, she is destined to be on stage and her invitations had her name inviting her guests with more flamboyant wording. Our middle child is somewhere in between and the wording in her invitations was factual but with a very positive spin.

The style of parties we normally have are quite expensive with everything provided, however we also have parties where everyone joins in and brings some food, parties with a strict dress code, kids parties and of course small informal dinner parties. The invitation wording we use does try and reflect the style of party. The extremes of wording here would be very formal for the strict dress code dinner parties right down to informal wording for the relaxed parties.

Another area to balance is clearly the use of the theme. Although we have not hosted too many theme parties, we have thought of doing so many times. Themes I like are Australian, Mexican, 1970s, Patriotic, Scottish, Luau, Beach and Garden. Clearly wording for an Australian party invitations could use words like Bonzer. Similarly the Luau theme will invite you to the beach to enjoy the sun, sea and sand. Each theme has distinctive wording.

Balancing the competing demands for invitation wording between graduate personality, party style and party theme may seem difficult. However if it is difficult I would be concerned that I was arranging the wrong type of party for the personality of the graduate. All that remains is to comply with invitation etiquette which is generally to have the hosts name, graduate’s name, date of the party, time and date, venue details and dress code. Address the envelopes correctly and send the invitations out in plenty of time.

Graduation Invitation Etiquette
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