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Marriage Monogram: Wedding Tray

Marriage Monogram

Marriage Monogram: What is it? And what does it symbolize?

 

What is a marriage monogram? It’s one in which husband and wife combine their initials to create a joint monogram. This is, surprisingly, something that just recently became a trend with marriage monograms. In the past, newlyweds had their own special monograms on different things. In today society’s, most couples create a joint monogram as a symbol of their love, their union, and their new life as husband and wife.

 

Marriage Monogram: Creating a marriage monogram when the bride decides to change her last name to her husband’s last name-

Marriage Monogram: Wedding Tray

Marriage Monogram: Wedding Tray

 

If the bride decides to change her last name, we put the first initial of the joint last name as the center initial. We’ve all heard and have grown accustomed to the saying “Ladies first”. Not in this case. When creating a marriage monogram, the groom’s first initial of his first name goes to the left of the center initial and the bride’s first initial of her first name goes to the right of the center initial.

  • For example: Anna Rose Carter and Sam John Gold. The marriage monogram would be: SGA. 

Side note: We would not use their middle name initials for this type of marriage monogram. Also, remember that the center initial is always the biggest in size and the left & right initials are smaller and equal in size to each other.

 

Marriage Monogram: Creating a marriage monogram when the bride decides to keep her own last name-

If the bride decides to stick to her own last name while married, there isn’t really a set rule to follow when engraving a marriage monogram. There is, however, two different ways you can create the marriage monogram.

 

One way is: creating a monogram with the wife’s initials, creating another monogram with the husband’s initials, and then combining the two with a smaller symbol.

  • For example: Anna Rose Carter. Her monogram would be ACR. Sam John Gold’s monogram would be SGJ. The joint monogram would be ACR • SGJ. Or vice versa. In this case, the bride’s monogram or groom’s monogram can go first in the joint monogram.

(To create a monogram for your own name, make sure to read our last post on “Engraved Monogram Etiquette”.)

 

Second way is: creating a joint monogram by combining the bride’s first initial of her last name with the groom’s first initial of his last name.

  • For example: Anna Rose Carter and Sam John Gold. The joint monogram would be CG. Or it could be GC.

Hope this gave you a good insight on creating marriage monograms!

Monogram Rules; Engraved Monogram

Monogram Rules

Monogram Rules; Engraving standard initials

In order to engrave a person’s initials on a gift, we don’t have to follow the standard monogram rules. When we engrave a person’s initials into a gift, the font size of the initials stay the  same size. The first initials of the person’s first, middle, and last name are not set up in any special way. It is pretty standard.

For example: Henry James Carter. We would engrave all initials in the same font size; “HJC” as on the Crystal Decanter.

Monogram Rules; Engraved Monogram

Monogram Rules; Engraved Monogram

Monogram Rules; Engraving a monogram

When we engrave a monogram, we have to follow the monogram rules. We suggest placing the first initial of our client’s last name in the center and engrave it in a larger font size. Then we suggest placing the first initial of our client’s first name to the left of the center initial and placing the first initial of our client’s middle name to the right of the center initial; those two initials are identical in size, but smaller than the center initial.

For example: Lisa Grace Carter. We would engrave the monogram as the engraved compact  below. 

Monogram Rules; Engraved Monogram

Monogram Rules; Engraved Monogram

 

Monogram rules; font styles & sizes and  gift ideas

Depending on what you are engraving the monogram to, typically the font size of the left and right letter is 24-point while the center letter is a bit larger with a 36-point font size.

We typically engrave monograms on a variety of products such as wine glasses, compacts, trays, jewelry, as well as beer mugs.

The client can choose from a variety of font styles as well as sizes based on their creativity and liking.

It is a great gift to give to a loved one or even yourself and can last a lifetime!