5 Tips for Your Daughter's Bat Mitzvah Invitations

A Bat Mitzvah is a ceremony and a stepping in life that announces the religious maturity of a young lady in the Jewish tradition. A celebration is usually held for the child at age thirteen. It is a tradition and custom to invite people to the ceremony and hold the celebration afterwards. A party is held in a formal manner or even a casual BBQ to celebrate the occasion. Invitations are sent to all the invitees by the parents of the young lady.

These invitations have a specific type of style, theme, wording and RSVP. Here are 5 tips for your Bat Mitzvah invitations:

Check the Time Frame

You should start the Bat Mitzvah Invitation process as sooner as you can. Start by browsing Bat Mitzvah Invitations Houston to gather some inspiration first. It is customary that the Bat Mitzvah invitations should reach your guests one month prior to the ceremony and celebrations or even sooner. The customized invitations also need time for printing. Therefore, it is suggested that you should start looking for designs and place your order three to four months before your daughter reaches the religious maturity. This is so that they can reach your guests in time and you can request a response at the very least three weeks before the event.

Who Should Be On Your Guest List

You will be saved a whole lot of headache if you carefully formulate your guest lists before starting to scout invitation styles. The guest list for the Bat Mitzvah should include the family, friends and classmates of your daughter as well as the members of the synagogue or congregation. After the ceremony and reception for the whole congregation, friends and family are often invited to an after party or private celebration. You should have a separate enclosure Invitation for the party which can be added to the envelope for those invited.

Keep It Formal

A Bat Mitzvah is a formal religious ceremony and celebration. Therefore you should keep the wording on your invitation card formal as well. The after party invitation should also be worded formally according to the type of the party being held. For example, if the after party is a casual affair at the parents’ house then the invitation can be less formal and more colorful. But if it is a formal black tie party then the Invitation card as well as the RSVP card should be formal and elegant, specifically mentioning ‘Black Tie only’.

What Is To Be Written?

A traditional Bat Mitzvah invitation card usually contains the name of the daughter who is having her Bat Mitzvah as well as the name of the hosts – most often the parents. The daughters Hebrew name can also be included if you wish to do so. It may be added to a corner or the center of the invitation depending on where it looks best. The names of grandparents go under the names of parents, if included. The other information that should be present on the invitation is the date, time and place where the ceremony and the party is to be held.

If the parents are divorced, even the names of both parents should be included in the invitation together with the names of their current spouses, if any. The invites are sent by the parent hosting the Bat Mitzvah and the party.

Theme and Styles

Feminine themes and colors are the most suitable for a Bat Mitzvah invitation. You can select any light backgrounds with dark ink to make the invitations readable. Elegance and formal styles are appreciated, but it is not advisable to make the invitation too stuffy.