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2. Not conveying the formality with your wording. Guests want to know if this will be a formal wedding so that they know how to dress. Even with today's more relaxed standards when it comes to wording invitations - some couples wish to be more conversational and more 'them' in their invites - it's a mistake to go too casual with your wording. Save that for the pre-wedding parties, showers, bachelorette's party invitations, and wedding breakfast invitations. The wedding invitation is still a place for formal wording rules if you'll have a formal wedding.

3. Misspelling a guest's name, or not including their title, on the envelope. Yikes, there's just no excuse for that! Check with parents and other friends to make sure you have the correct spelling, all of their kids' names (they may have had a baby in the years since you saw them last) if the kids are invited, and honor their title if they are a judge, doctor, captain, military servicemember, pastor, and so on. You can call them directly to check - they love it that you respect the position they've attained in life.

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