Invitations

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Invitations

• Place cards and seating arrangements

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When do we use invitations?

• Christmas Party
• Weddings
• Wedding Anniversaries
• Bridal Showers
• Baby Showers
• New Years party
• Thanksgiving dinner
• Halloween Parties

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What is in an invitation?

• All invitations must include the following
• Who is hosting the event? (Miss. Nixon and Mr.
  Johnson)
• Who/What is being celebrated? (birthday, wedding)
• When? (date and time)
• Where? (place/location of dinner/party)

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Formal Wedding Invitation

• In a formal invitation the date and year are
  written out.
• Wedding May 7, 1994 is written as Saturday, the
  seventh of May nineteen hundred and ninety four.

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Informal Wedding Invitation
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Announcements versus Invitations

• An announcement may also have the following
  information
• What is being celebrated
• When (time/date)
• Where (location)
• IMPORTANT DIFFERENCE an announcement is not
  inviting you to a party or dinner to celebrate.
• An announcement gives notification that an event
  has occurred.

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Baby Announcement
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Newspaper Announcements
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Bridal Shower
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Response Cards

• What is a response card?
• A response card tells the host if the guest will
  be coming to the celebration
• Response cards are placed inside the invitation.
• Response cards are small usually 5cm height 8 cm
  in length.
• A small envelope for the response card is also
  placed inside the invitation.
• The envelope for the response card should be self
  addressed with the postage paid.

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Information on Response card

• The response card tells host the number of guests
  who will be attending, or if guest will be
  attending
• Response cards should include the date the
  response is needed

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Addressing an envelope 1. The senders address
goes in the top left hand corner of the
envelope 2. The persons address who is receiving
the mail goes in the middle of the envelope 3.
The stamp goes in the right hand corner.

• Adina Ball
• 1208-10149 Saskatchewan Drive
• Edmonton Alberta
• T6E 1A2
• Heather Mann
• Box 8 site 9 RR2
• Stony Plain, Alberta
• Canada
• T7Z- 1X2

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Informal Response

• For less formal invitations a response card may
  be unnecessary.
• The invitation will specify how to make response
  (respond be telephone)
• Only respond if unable to make it
• No response required
• RSVP please respond (by)
• repondez sil vous plait

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Seat Placements

• Who sits where in a formal setting
• The host and hostess sit at opposite ends of the
  table
• Males and Females sit in intervals
• Most important people sit to the right hand side
  of the host and hostess (guest of honor)

Male guest of honor
F M
F
host
hostess
M F
M
Female guest of honor
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Place cards

• The name of each person should be written on a
  separate card
• The place cards are usually put above the plate
  on the tablecloth, but some people put them on
  top of the napkin because they are more easily
  read.
•   The place cards are usually about 4cm in width
  (height) and 5 cm in length, sometimes slightly
  larger.
• A family crest may be placed on the place card
• Nothing other than a crest must ever be put on a
  place card and usually the crests are plain.