How to Assemble Wedding Invitations in Five Easy Steps

Our video below shows you how to assemble wedding invitations in the proper fashion so they present well to your invited guests. Whether you're using more traditional and formal styles of wedding invitations or just a simple flat or folded style with one or two enclosures, there are a couple of things to get together first before we show you how to assemble wedding invitations for mailing:

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The Inner Envelope
On the inner envelope, write the invited guest's name only and nothing else. The inner envelope is optional; it's just a more formal way to mail out your invitations but it's certainly not necessary.

If you buy a kit to do your invitations yourself, chances are the kit will only come with one envelope to mail the invitations out in, but not a second/inner envelope.

The Response or RSVP Card
These envelopes should be preaddressed and stamped for your guest so all they have to do is mail it back to you without having to pay for postage.

Make sure you have all of the pieces of your invitation ensemble together:

Outer envelope (if you're using one)

Inner envelope (this is the envelope that everything else goes into)

Response Card and matching envelope (Make sure the envelope is preaddressed and stamped)

Reception Card (if you're using one)

Tissue paper (if you're adding just a touch of tradition to your ensemble)

How to assemble wedding invitations in proper order:

Place the invitation face up with the tissue paper over the printed area
Place the Reception card on top with other enclosure cards (Response card, direction card, etc.) on top of the Reception card.
Gather the stack together and place all into the inner envelope with the printed sides facing you> and the folded edges of the cards go into the envelope first.
If you're only using one envelope, place the above into that envelope in the same order as in steps 2-3.
If you're using the outer envelope, the inner envelope is then put into the outer envelope, with the handwritten guest's name facing you so that when they open the outer envelope, this is the first thing they'll see.
Now your wedding invitations are ready to mail!

Follow our Tips for Mailing Wedding Invitations to ensure your guests' invitations look as elegant when they receive them as they did when you left them at the Post Office.

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