Nuptial mass invitation wording

Equine Osmosis

I will post this on the invite board as well but I was hoping you ladies could help too.  Does this sound ok?  Too long?  Does sacrament of holy matrimony or nuptial mass need to be capitalized?  Also, what fonts do people use?  I've see all capital print with the couple's names in script- is this standard?  Thanks so much!!

Their lives have been blessed

by their love for each other

and by their faith in the Lord

Equine Osmosis

and

FI Osmosis

request the honor of your presence

at the nuptial mass uniting them

in the sacrament of holy matrimony

on Saturday, the twenty-fifth of June

two thousand eleven

at half past two o’clock

Saint Bernard’s Catholic Church

Our town, California

 

aimers1525

I think it sounds great, but would suggest the following:

-I believe it's better/suggested to use "half after two" as past is used for funerals
-I capitalized Nuptial Mass on our invites, not sure about holy matrimony though, and someone correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't it the sacrament of marriage?
-I used a all caps font and script for our names like you suggested, but I don't think it matters; I just like the way it looks!
-Honour instead of honor
-Is your church really St. Bernard's? Our church is St. Michael, but it is often abbreviated St. Mike's. I used the formal name for our invites

Equine Osmosis

The church has "Saint Bernard's Catholic Church" on their website, apostrophe and all, so that's what I used.

I originally had "half after two" but all of my family thought that sounded awkward so I changed it.  I don't know if it matters...?

Do you have any idea what fonts you used?  All I have are what's on my computer (MS Word) so I need to figure out where to find more, preferably for free.  

mica178

You can download fonts for free from dafont.com .

It's after, not past.

I capitalized Sacrament of Holy Matrimony.

catarntina

I used Snellhand Round for the main body of the text, and then Edwardian Script for the names and accents on the reception card, etc.

Pics in bio if you wanna see for some ideas.  DH downloaded this huge thing of fonts for me.  I might still have the zipped file.  If it's not too big maybe I can email it.  I can check when I get home if you'd like?

aimers1525

On MS Word, I used Copperplate Gothic Light and Palace Script MT

newlyseliski

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/cultural-wedding-boards_catholic-weddings_nuptial-mass-invitation-wording?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Cultural Wedding BoardsForum:615Discussion:d86faa54-62cc-4fbc-b8e2-35751a145118Post:2c0df233-0fc0-454c-b5af-e826bffc0d4c">Nuptial mass invitation wording</a>:
[QUOTE]request the honor of your presence at the nuptial mass uniting them in the sacrament of holy matrimonyPosted by Equine Osmosis[/QUOTE]

Beautiful!  My only feedback is that technically, the nuptial Mass is not what unites you... the sacrament is.  Theological/Ontological accuracy makes for awkward wording, sometimes :)  Neither of which I can even pretend to be an expert in... so I consulted all my friends who took sacramental theology courses!  We copied a friend's wedding invitation wording and did this:

Bride's Parents and
Groom's Parents
request the honor of your presence at the
Nuptial Mass in which

newlyseliski & newlyfiance

will be united in the
Sacrament of Holy Matrimony

Saturday the twenty eighth of May
two thousand and eleven
at three o'clock in the afternoon

Church name
Church Address
Church City, State

I have pictures in my bio of our invitations!  We used "Timeless" (smallcaps format) for the regular text and "Fontleroy" for the more script-like parts (both italicized and plain)... both are from Dafont.com!

Equine Osmosis

Newlyseliski-  That's the format I took my wording from but the problem is that since we're paying for the wedding we don't have the break of our names being between the nuptial mass and sacrament wording.  

Any ideas on how to make that sound better (and be correct)?  Maybe this one...?

"at the nuptial mass as they unite in the Sacrament of Holy Matrimony..." 

Should it be "at THE nuptial mass"  or "at A nuptial mass" or "at THEIR nuptial mass?"

Keep the ideas coming!  I'm going to check out all those fonts.  Thank for the responses!

Hope61

THE nuptial Mass

Maybe, "the nuptial Mass at which they will be united in the Sacrament..."

Fonts--I used Maiandra for the text (not all caps) and Edwardian script for our names.

And as a side note--I'm getting married 4 hours before you!! (I think... 1:30pm Eastern)

newlyseliski

I think that one way of doing it to emphasize that you are hosting the wedding rather than your parents is as follows (which I borrowed from clearheavens' bio)

Together with their families
[bride]
&
[groom]
request the honour of your presence
at their marriage in the Sacrament of Holy Matrimony
and the celebration of the Nuptial Mass
[date & time]
[church]

Calypso1977

as newly said, the Mass does not unite you so its not technically correct.  the mass is said for and in your honor so that you as a couple receive extra blessings for your marriage.

you can amend as follows, which is the wording we used (but we did not use an intro):

Their lives have been blessed

by their love for each other

and by their faith in the Lord

Equine Osmosis

and

FI Osmosis

request the honor of your presence

at their marriage in the sacrament of holy matrimony
and the celebration of the nuptial mass

on Saturday, the twenty-fifth of June

two thousand eleven

at half past two o’clock

Saint Bernard’s Catholic Church

Our town, California

clearheavens

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[QUOTE]I think that one way of doing it to emphasize that you are hosting the wedding rather than your parents is as follows (<strong>which I borrowed from clearheavens' bio</strong>) Together with their families [bride] & [groom] request the honour of your presence at their marriage in the  Sacrament of Holy Matrimony and the celebration of the  Nuptial Mass [date & time] [church]
Posted by newlyseliski[/QUOTE]

<div>:D I feel happy my bio was helpful.</div>