Wedding invitations are formal letters of invite requesting the receiver to grace a wedding ceremony. These are usually sent out several weeks before the wedding day through mail or through the help of family and friends around. Most, invitations are normally printed using various techniques such as letterpress, lithography, embossing and engraving, to name a few. The increase of simple crafty ideas in the internet provided many brides more option for personalized invitations using inkjet and laser printer. Traditionally, wedding invites were personally hand-written by the hosts and this style was considered as more formal and welcoming.

Wedding invitations may be folded in several ways – half-fold, pocket fold, French fold or perhaps tri-fold. They many include additional printed materials related to the occasion such as RSVP response card, wedding reception invitation, hotel accommodations, maps and other information important to the event. A formal invitation is usually written in the third person stating the place, date and time of the ceremony.