Wedding invitation wording generator
Choose who is hosting and how formal it should be, fill in your details, and copy the wording. Free, no account, and it never leaves your browser.
Who is hosting
How formal
Your wording
Nothing here is sent anywhere - the wording is assembled in your browser. Check every name against something written down before you print or send it.
How to choose the host line
The host line says who is welcoming your guests. It is a courtesy rather than an accounting statement, which is why couples who paid for the entire day often still open with their parents’ names.
Both families is the most useful default in modern wording. It honours both sides without anyone having to decide whose name is printed first, and it absorbs step-parents, second marriages and complicated households without drawing attention to any of them. One set of parents is the traditional form, and the reason older invitations name the bride by first and middle name only - she is being introduced by the people named above her.
How to choose the register
Match the day, not the tradition. Formal wording on a garden lunch reads borrowed; casual wording in a cathedral reads underdressed. The test is whether you could say the sentence aloud to a guest without laughing.
Whichever you pick, the same five facts have to survive: who is hosting, who is marrying, when, where, and what the guest does next. The generator keeps the day of the week in every version, because it is the cheapest error-check on the card - a guest who reads “Saturday 12 June” will notice if 12 June is a Tuesday.
The cases a generator cannot do
A parent who has died
Two conventional forms, and the right one is whichever you can read aloud without it catching.
See both forms →Divorced parents hosting
Separate lines, no “and” joining them into a couple. Mother conventionally first.
See the wording →Two faiths, or two scripts
Blending two traditions into one paragraph usually satisfies neither.
Writing in two scripts →A save-the-date
A different message with a different job. Four lines, and deliberately less.
Save-the-date wording →About this tool
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Is this free?
Yes, and there is nothing to sign up for. It runs in your browser - the wording is assembled on your own device and nothing is sent anywhere.
Can I use the wording it produces?
Yes, however you like, printed or digital. It is your wedding and these are conventional forms rather than anything we own. Check every name against something written down before you commit it to print.
Why does the formal version spell out the date?
It is the traditional form - "Saturday, the twelfth of June, two thousand and twenty-seven". It is correct, and so is the short version. Formality is a choice about tone, not accuracy, which is why the modern and casual settings write it plainly.
Which host line should I choose?
"Both families" is the most useful default. It honours both sides without anyone deciding whose name is printed first, and it absorbs step-parents, second marriages and complicated households without remarking on them.
It does not cover my situation
The harder cases - a parent who has died, divorced parents both hosting, a second marriage, two faiths - need judgement rather than a dropdown, and the wording guide covers each with worked examples.
Does this work for a save-the-date?
No, and it should not. A save-the-date is a different message with a different job: four lines, and deliberately less information. There is a separate guide for it.
Wording settled? The design is the easy part
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