Wedding Invitations

Wedding Etiquette for Jewish weddings encompasses some specific considerations and customs.

Deb from Beautiful Wedding Invitations offers some basic guidelines:

According to Jewish tradition, marriages are made in heaven. Men and women are brought together to marry one another by God himself. Men and women are joined together in marriage so in this tradition, the joining word on Jewish wedding invitations reads “and” instead of “to.”

Jewish custom also celebrates the joining of the two families, so the names of the groom’s parents always appear on the invitations. The proper way to do this is to have their names appear beneath the groom’s name on a line that reads, “son of Mr. and Mrs. John Perry Solomon.”

Occasionally if the bride and her parents want to honor the groom’s parents even more they can place their names at the top of the invitation beneath the bride’s parent’s names. In this case the bride uses her full name but no title. When this is done, the groom’s title is also omitted for consistency.”

Next, Deb points out that Hebrew lettering is often used on Jewish wedding invitations. They might include a quotation from the wedding blessing, or the entire invitations text may be reproduced on a part of the invitation. When this is done, the Hebrew version appears on the right inside page and the English on the front.

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