How to Write your own Wording for an LDS Wedding Invitation

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Here’s the most common wording for an LDS/Mormon wedding invitation or announcement:

• Normally I use somewhere around 1.5 spacing on the body and single spacing on the corner copies.
• If you’re using corner copies (which most LDS people are because of college and stuff), you may want to have the bride’s and groom’s names in a different, larger font.  That allows you to put everything else in a smaller font.  The corner copies themselves are in a smaller font even still…  Most invitations, nationally, are designed to allow 12 lines of text; and the average LDS wedding I’d say uses 19 lines.  That’s no big deal—it won’t cost you more than $7 on the whole order—but vertical space is precious, since it defines the font size of everything on the page.  That being said, if you’re having two receptions or two open houses, you can leave off the first line of the corner copy.
• It’s lovely to be able to put “in the Snowflake Arizona Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,” but you’ve gotta’ figure out how to fit it.  The only possible way is to break the line after “temple,” but even still unless you’re using a pretty non-serif font you probably will have to break “The Church of Jesus Christ” from “of Latter-day Saints.”  Rather than deal with all this, most people just put “Snowflake Arizona LDS Temple.”  It’s up to you.
• You’ll have to “make up” a name for your church building if you’re having a reception there.  That probably won’t be hard, because you probably have an unofficial name for it already—like “The Windcrest Chapel.” No, you can’t use “stake center,” but nowadays most churches are built in subdivisions with pretty names.

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