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title: 'Invitations by occasion'
description: 'Invitations for engagements, weddings, vow renewals and anniversaries, and what changes between them.'
source: 'https://envelope.love/blog/occasions'
guides: '5'
---

# Invitations by occasion.

The days that need an invitation, from the engagement to the fiftieth. What changes in the wording, the timing and the guest list.

This is the plain markdown copy of https://envelope.love/blog/occasions, published by Love Envelope for machine readers. The page itself carries the same words.

- [Planning an engagement party, start to finish](https://envelope.love/blog/engagement-party-planning.md): Whether to have one, who pays, who to invite, when to hold it and how it differs from every other party you will throw this year.
- [Rehearsal dinner invitation wording](https://envelope.love/blog/rehearsal-dinner-invitation-wording.md): Who comes, who hosts, when to send it, and how to word an invitation to the smallest and warmest event of the whole weekend.
- [Welcome parties and the morning after](https://envelope.love/blog/welcome-party-and-brunch-invitations.md): A wedding is increasingly a weekend. How to invite people to the other two events without confusing anybody about which is which.
- [Milestone anniversary invitations, from the tenth to the fiftieth](https://envelope.love/blog/milestone-anniversary-invitations.md): Who hosts, what to call it, how to word an invitation for a couple rather than from them, and what changes at each decade.
- [Renewing your vows: how it actually works](https://envelope.love/blog/vow-renewal-planning.md): What a renewal is and is not, who to invite, what happens in the ceremony, and how the invitation differs from a wedding one.

## Other subjects

- [Invitation wording](https://envelope.love/blog/wording.md): What to actually write, with lines you can take as they are.
- [Invitation etiquette](https://envelope.love/blog/etiquette.md): Whose name goes where, who has to be invited, and how to say no kindly.
- [Planning the invitations](https://envelope.love/blog/planning.md): When each piece happens, and what has to be decided before it can.
- [Sending the invitations](https://envelope.love/blog/sending.md): Getting it into a hundred hands without a trip to the post office.
- [Replies and head counts](https://envelope.love/blog/replies.md): Head counts, dietary needs, and the guests who never answer.
- [Invitation design](https://envelope.love/blog/design.md): How an invitation looks, and what that is quietly saying.

Make yours. Six designs, your own words, and one link to send. Free to build, free for a day once it is live. https://envelope.love/create