Kompozycja zaproszenia ślubnego

Beata Jarosz

Uniwersytet Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej w Lublinie

Abstrakt

The aim of this article is description of weeding’s invitations composition, including obligatory and optional components. The obligatory components are information about the sender, recipient, planning occasion – purpose of invitation (wedding and reception after wedding), its term (date and an hour) and location, contact details (mostly the groom and the bride phone numbers) and a request for confirmation of arrival. The optional components in composition of analyzed type of text are information about presents, which the engaged couple wish to get (for example money, alcohol and sweets, coupon lotto) and additional invitation (e.g. the second reception after wedding named poprawiny). The author also shows a composition’s transformations. At 19th century the integral component of wedding’s invitation’s structure was a description of feast, which awaited the guests. Currently there aren’t this type information in wedding’s invitation, but more often appears in invitations information about gifts, which the bride and the groom would like to receive. Moreover the author complements the article by showing the similarities between Polish and English wedding’s invitations.