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What Time Do You Put on a Wedding Invite?

Whose name should be placed first on the wedding invitation? Here is the answer you are looking for!

UPDATED ON December 08, 2023
Wedding Invitations

Can You Send Wedding Invitations Too Early?

It really can't hurt to get things done early when you can, but when it comes to wedding invitations, is there such a thing as too early? That's the question we ask in this blog.

UPDATED ON December 08, 2023

Wedding Order of Service Cards: The 'Just Married' Range

Wedding Order of Service Cards: The 'Just Married' Range
Our 'Just Married wedding order of service cards are available as both an open-out card and a concertina booklet. A wedding Order of Service is the wedding program that will outline your church service or civil ceremony, and they are a really lovely way for your guests to follow the timetable of your wedding day and take home a keepsake of your big day. Wedding Order of Service cards or booklets will provide all of the important details about your ceremony: including all names of the bridal party, the order of events, and sometimes readings and poems or songs. Click here to view the concertina design in the 'Just Married' range Click here to view the open-out card design in the 'Just Married' range This is one of our new designs, and has proved very popular with brides and grooms-to-be. There is a co-ordinated range available which includes save the date cards and magnets, wedding and blessing invitations, guest information cards, RSVP cards, menus, lottery ticket holders, order of the day cards, place cards, table names, table plans, and wedding thank you cards and magnets.

Matt Damon and wife renew their vows in a Beach Wedding ceremony

Beach-1-Sea-Sunset-Wedding-Invitation-Open-Out-150 According to Hollywood gossip, Matt Damon has been promising to renew his wedding vows to his wife Luciana Barroso for some time - and it all seems set to be happening any day now in a beach wedding ceremony. The gorgeous pair opted for a low-key wedding seven years ago in Manhattan, but want to go all out for this celebration of their marriage. It is rumoured that Matt has rented out the entire Sugar Beach resort on the Caribbean island of St Lucia under the name 'Mr Naff'! A staff member at the hotel has confirmed: "The hotel was booked under a different name to Damon. We were told that it was a Mr and Mrs Naff getting married. "We then heard that it was Matt Damon and they had been using a false name to stop their secret being found out. He was here two months ago to have a look around. A big yacht moored by the beach and he came into the resort." The couple will be joined by several celebrity pals for the week-long celebration where guests such as George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones are expected to attend. The couple has also rented all 78 rooms of the Sugar Beach resort. We hope that have an amazing time and, if this has inspired you to look into a beach wedding or renewing your wedding vows somewhere tropical, take a look at our fabulous range of beach wedding stationery.

Katie's Price's Wedding Blessing

Calla-Lily- Open Out- Wedding Blessing-150 Katie Price walked up the aisle (again!) last Friday as she and her new husband Kieran held their wedding blessing ceremony. Katie married her stripper boyfriend in the Bahamas back in January in front of just six guests - but the couple staged a more extravagant event for family and friends last week when they made their nuptials official. The wedding party gathered for a ceremony at Rookery Manor in Weston-Super-Mare, and the couple's vows were blessed in a makeshift Indian temple at the venue before guests tucked into a Willy Wonka-themed feast! Katie opted for a High Street strapless gown and tiara, and celebrity guests included Michelle Heaton, Rylan Clark, members of the TOWIE cast and WAGS including Danielle O'Hara. The rest of the ceremony was a less than understated event, with the model apparently choosing a Willy Wonka theme for the nuptials. The brief ceremony - which involved thirteen bridesmaids and a Gospel choir! - was followed by an extravagant reception in a room which looked like something out of Willy Wonka's chocolate factory. Tables were adorned with vases of sweets and giant multi-coloured lollipops instead of floral centre-pieces, and giant sweets were specially made to decorate the room. The three-course menu included Caribbean dishes in a nod to their first wedding in the Bahamas, and a vast drinks menu for guests meant the celebrations continued well into the early hours of Saturday morning. For all your wedding blessing stationery needs, take a look at The Card Gallery's fantastic range of invitations.
Wedding Poem Cards

Wedding Poem Cards

Have you taken a look at our range of wedding poem cards yet? With five poems to choose from - available in all of our designs - there really is something for everyone. Take a look at the wedding poems available below: Gift-Poem-Template-2-600Gift-Poem-Template-3-600Gift-Poem-Template-4-600Gift-Poem-Template-5-600 Lovely words, aren't they! Visit our wedding poem cards section for the full range by clicking here.

Celebrity Wedding: Jennifer and Justin

Pink-Gerbera-Border-RSVP-Thumb Actress Jennifer Aniston and her fiance Justin Theroux are rumoured to be preparing to get married in a matter of weeks if the Hollywood rumour mill is to be believed. Jennifer - our girl crush - is believed to be trying to avoid the style of wedding she had with ex-hubby Brad Pitt, and seeking to invite just close friends and family to her nuptials in Hawaii. The couple announced their engagement last August, and allegedly wanted to hold it at their LA home but have been seen looking at venues in Hawaii for a more intimate affair. It is thought that just a few dozen of their closest family and friends will be there, but just how secret can this couple keep their big day with the eyes of the world watching their every move? For your - hopefully smaller! - special day, take a look at The Card Gallery's range of wedding stationery. From save the date magnets and day invitations to RSVP cards and thank you cards, they have it covered.

Katie Price won't be planning another wedding anytime soon!

Antique-Silver-Swirls-Evening-FRONT-150 Katie Price might have shown us a few things when it comes to pulling off a big wedding, but it appears she won't be planning anymore anytime soon after reportedly pulling out of her appearance in the TV show Celebrity Wedding Planner. This show gives celebrities the power to make every decision for a couple about to tie the know - from the save the date announcement and wedding evening invitations through to the bride's dress and venue for the big day. It was planned that Katie was going to be teamed up with Duncan James from Blue, and together they were going to plan a wedding for a couple. However, the show's bosses will now have to find another celebrity couple to plan the wedding, after the former glamour model decided not to take part. Perhaps the former glamour model just can’t face organising another wedding after getting hitched for the third time herself! That, on top of announcing last week that she is expecting her fourth child with her new husband, means that Katie's hands are probably full enough at the moment as it is! Katie married her new man just weeks after meeting. In a statement last week, she said: "It has come as a shock . I would be lying if I said I wasn't nervous because I have experienced miscarriages in the past. We are over the moon. A baby wasn't part of our plans at this stage but anyone who knows me knows I am not one for sticking to rules and plans." For all your wedding stationery needs, including evening wedding invitations, click here.

Save the Date Magnets anyone?

Save-the-Date-Wedding-31-Cream-English-Rose-50x92-Large-150 A few more celebrity wedding engagements since we last updated you... Christina Ricci is engaged to cameraman James Heerdegen. The actress was spotted wearing an engagement ring at the launch of her Makeup Forever line in Los Angeles and said, “We got engaged a couple months back.” The actress met her husband-to-be on the set of the TV drama "Pan Am" and have been together ever since. Wednesday Addams is all grown up! Kelly Osbourne is engaged to her chef boyfriend Matthew Mosshart, and get this - they apparently got engaged before Christmas in secret! The couple met at Kate Moss's wedding in July of 2011 and have been together pretty much since. And one we're not sure about... This past weekend in Paris Mary-Kate Olsen was spotted with a diamond ring on her left ring finger. Some media outlets are reporting that she is engaged to her boyfriend of nearly a year, Oliver Sarkozy. The couple is spotted frequently together and jointly bought a 6.25 million dollar home in NYC’s East Village. So, is she or isn't she? If you're newly engaged - Congratulations!!! For all your save the date stationery - inlcuding save the date cards and magnets - click here.

Celebrity Engagement Round-Up

savethedate It seems that save the date cards sales will start to soar if this week's round-up of celebrity engagements are anything to go by! Here are a couple of the starry couples set to get hitched in the not-to-distant future: jamie Jamie Lynn Spears (sister of Britney) announced her engagement over the weekend - bringing together her big sis and ex-husband Kevin Federline to celebrate the happy occasion. Britney, who has been married twice, congratulated her sister Jamie Lynn on her engagement to boyfriend of three years Jamie Winston on Twitter after the couple announced they were planning to get wed. We like this girly pink design for Jamie. mileyMiley Cyrus this week insists that her engagement to Liam Hemsworth is right on track despite rumours he's having an affair with January Jones! Despite the whispers, the 20-year-old actress-singer appeared to be in good spirits as she arrived at Glendale music studios ready to work on her fourth studio album. She made sure the paparazzi got an eyeful of her 3.5-carat Neil Lane engagement ring on her way in too! We'd choose something a bit more light-hearted for Miley - to balance out all that negativity. To see our complete range of save the date cards, click here.

Latest Wedding Invitations

Wedding-10-Pink-Butterfly-Scroll-Wedding-Invitation-Personalised-NEW-230 We have lots of new additions to our wedding invitations section, so take a look and find your perfect wedding stationery. From demure white roses and calla lilies, through to bold orange gerberas and bright red blooms, we're sure to have a design which fits in with your wedding scheme. If you like traditional styles, our cards featuring wedding rings or religious manuscripts might be just the thing you are looking for. For something a little more fun, take a look at our 'just married' design which we have just added to our collection of wedding invitations. For a chic and elegant affair, we suggest one of our monochrome designs - these are really popular if you are trying to achieve a black and white theme, or having decided on an accent colour yet. A monochrome style will allow you to add any colour at a later date, without the fear of clashing colours. Another of our favourites - and a popular choice with couples - are out sweetie designed card collection. Featuring soft plump marshmallows, these are sure to be a hit with your wedding guests - and get a few tummies rumbling in the process! Whatever you decide is the perfect wedding invitation for your special day, we know that you have made the right choice in choosing The Card Gallery to supply your wedding stationery. We will be there every step of the way to make sure you have a wedding to remember.

Wedding Sale Now On!

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Occasions Sale - Now On!

We have lots of products currently available in our Occasions Sale. From guest book pens and photo albums, to birthday invitations and placecards - we have something for everyone! Take a look at some of our favourite items which we have on sale at the moment: a b c d

Moonie Mass Wedding

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Over three and a half thousand couples from all over the globe tied the knot at a mass wedding in South Korea organised by the controversial Unification Church a year after its founder died. Row upon row of couples, dressed in traditional white dresses and tuxedos, met at the Cheongshim Peace World Centre in Gapyeong, near Seoul, for their collective big day. A further 24,000 followers, who have been dubbed 'Moonies' after the church's founder Sun Myung Moon, were also married in other countries via a video link. The ceremony was presided over by Hak Ja-han - the widow of Sun Myung Moon, who died last September. Moon founded the church, officially called the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification, in 1954 and it is considered one of the world's most controversial religious organisations. The Unification Church claims to have 3million followers around the world. His wife remains the symbolic head of the mission that oversees the entire Unification group. It's certainly the biggest wedding we've ever heard of - and that's an awful lot of save the date cards that would need to be sent out! For all your save the date cards, why not take a look at our online range - whether you're planning a 'Moonie' wedding or a more intimate ceremony, we're sure to have something that's just perfect for you.