Question · Cards & etiquette
What do you write in a wedding card?
What you write in a wedding card should be short, warm and sincere — congratulate the couple, add one thing that's genuinely about them, and stop there.
A wedding card doesn't need a speech. The couple will read dozens on the day, so the ones that land are short, warm and clearly about them rather than a template. Open with a straightforward congratulations, add one line that's true of this specific couple — a memory, a quality you admire, a wish for the marriage — and close the way you'd normally sign off. There's no formal register to reach for.
Leave out inside jokes only a few guests will follow, unsolicited advice, and anything that reads like a toast rather than a card. If you're stuck, borrow the couple's own words back at them. And if you're still deciding on the wedding gift for the couple to go with it, or want the fuller wedding gift etiquette rundown, both sit alongside this one.
Written by Craig Fearn, Printed Weddings.