✿ Royal Wedding Invitations✿

Well, it looks pretty much how you'd expect: 10 in. by 6 in. thick white cardstock, gilded edges and of course, gold lettering.

On the very top you see Queen Elizabeth's emblem in gold. The invitations, sent in the Queen's name, read, "The Lord Chamberlain has 
been commanded by the Queen to invite" the guest to the marriage at Westminster Abbey at 11 a.m. on April 29.

A whopping 1,900 invitations were sent, ranging the guest list from kings to charity leaders, to close family and university friends, old schoolmates and prime ministers around 
the world. Everyone you could imagine, in fact, except for the Duchess of York.




o, here it is - the Royal Wedding Invitation. We”ve got an actual picture!
Here’s the full scoop on the Royal Wedding Invitations, in a nutshell, in case you just joined us:
A total of 1,800 - 1,900 invitations to the Royal Wedding went out on February 17. But there are separate invites for the wedding ceremony and the afternoon reception AND the evening reception. In other words, not everyone is invited to all of the festivities.
The guest list for the afternoon reception is much more exclusive than the guest list for the ceremony, and the guest list for the evening reception where the Royals will dance into the wee hours of the night is even more exclusive than that.
Here’s how it breaks down:
Out of the 1900 royal wedding invitations that have been sent out to the ceremony at Westminster Abbey, six-hundred of the guests are also invited to the luncheon hosted by the queen at Buckingham following the ceremony.
A much more exclusive and intimate crowd of just 300 have also received invitations for an evening reception of dinner and dancing later that evening at Buckingham Palace, hosted by Prince Charles. It is the invitation to the evening royal wedding reception which is the most coveted because of its exclusivity – and because its expected to be quite the party.
As for the Royal Wedding Invitations themselves (these are the invitations which were sent to all 1900 guests who are invited to the royal wedding ceremony at Westminster Abbey), there are of gilt-edge (meaning gold-embossed edges), of the finest quality super-heavy white paper, with black engraved print. The names of the guests are handwritten onto each invitation.
The wording on the invitation reads: