Wedding invitation is one of the “must items” for a wedding. It is used to announce the wedding and spread the joy and happiness of the couple. However, is wedding invitation only an invitation card? The answer is certainly “No”. A wedding invitation should contain another layer of meaning, otherwise there will not be any difference between a wedding invitation and a company invitation.
In Chinese culture, wedding is always related to the notion of double happiness. It is not happiness, it is the square of happiness. The Chinese character “double happiness” looks like two people together. It signifies a couple. It means that this boy and this girl, are united as one from now on. The wedding invitation is in turn not only an invitation which invites people to the wedding ceremony but also a declaration. It declares that two people, two families are being united from now on.
Nowadays, some people may use an e-invitation, an invitation in form of an email. Will this kind of wedding invitations, or even wedding websites take over the role of a physical wedding invitation? The answer is yes and no. On one hand it is inevitably a trend that things are dealt electronically. On the other hand, a physical wedding invitation spread the message with human touch. In the future, these two forms of invitations should work together to form a new tradition, say a physical wedding invitation with an e-RSVP. No matter it is something electronic or physical, there is no doubt that it will still contains the underlying meaning of wedding invitation, which forms the society of human beings in the history.
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