How To Address Your Wedding Invites

Beacon Lane confession…we are obsessed with every detail of the invite, down to the format of the guest’s address. If everything about your day is going to be perfect – why shouldn’t the envelope of your invite be made to match?

When starting to organize and format your guest’s addresses, a few tips to consider:

1. do you want a formal or casual tone? To decide on this, we suggest look back at the tone of your invitation and match the type of wording used on your ceremony card.

2. commit on consistency a.k.a SPELL EVERYTHING OUT. This means apartment instead of apt. or Street instead of St. Spelling out words just gives off a finished look, and sets the tone for your wedding.

3. single people let your single people know if they can bring a guest or not. In the olden days, invites used to use a double envelope (inside envelope would have the friend or family member’s name and “and guest” after it) the outside envelope would have the address). Nowadays, if the single people can bring a guest, this is written on the outer addressed envelope.

So we’ve addressed literally thousands of envelopes – and most of them end up following the same format. Here’s a few examples most common types of addresses we use:

Hopefully this helps makes the guest addressing process a little less stressful. If you have any tips or tricks you used when collecting addresses from family or friends – Share below! We’d love to hear.

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