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Creating Attractive Birthday Invitation Wording

If you're thinking of throwing a birthday party for your child, or for your husband or wife, and you are grasping for attractive birthday invitation wording, there are many things to consider. Taking care of all of them is sure to make your target invitee feel good about receiving an invitation from you.

You must have a specific audience in mind to address with your invitation. In the case of your child's birthday, your invitation card should look attractive and colorful at first glance so your child's friend would want to keep it as a memento of the occasion; but you should not forget that the "proper" audience would be your child's friends' parents, too. Your birthday invitation wording should be wholesome in content and in motif. On the other hand, in the case of a friend's birthday, the reader would be his/her friends that you would be inviting so you should consider the kinds of friends he/she keeps. For example, if they are a frolicsome bunch, you may inject some witty wording in your invite; if they are the serious type, then you may be more formal.

A good printed invitation would include the basic elements that would answer the four W questions: the Who, What, When and Where. Your child's name appears in the "Who," of course; the "What" will be the occasion (e.g., 8th or 18th birthday); the date you'd indicate will take care of the "When," and this must include the time of the event; and the "Where" would be a very important element because you wouldn't want your guests to get lost looking for the place for the event - some people would even take the trouble to draw a map to prevent such confusions.

In short, the "proper" birthday invitation wording would start with those few opening words at the front page that would make your audience admire the face of the card enough to want to open it and/or read your invitation through to the last word. To add some life to the invite, you can set it on a thematic design-and-color-schemed paper.

If you are at a loss for words, there are many sources of good birthday invitation wording examples. Some can be found online and some in published form. A poetic line could also set the theme. Just keep in mind that how you word the invitation says something about you, too.