{"id":18125,"date":"2020-04-24T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.isaidyees.com\/3-rules-for-creating-your-monogram\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T11:14:30","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T09:14:30","slug":"3-rules-for-creating-your-monogram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.isaidyees.com\/en\/3-rules-for-creating-your-monogram\/","title":{"rendered":"3 rules for creating your monogram"},"content":{"rendered":" \n

More and more couples want to personalize their wedding invitations, and what better way to do so than with a monogram? A monogram often serves as a “wedding logo,<\/strong>” featuring the bride and groom’s initials\u2014usually in a script font. Wedding invitations and monograms go together like coffee and milk. Popular wedding trends for 2020 include using monograms on wax seals or as blind embossing to add a “wow” factor<\/strong> to the invitations. <\/p> \n \n

That small detail adds a touch of luxury and personalization; beyond invitations, it can also be used on other wedding stationery<\/strong>\u2014such as thank-you notes, seating charts, table numbers, menus, and more.<\/p> \n

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According to tradition, a joint monogram incorporating a future surname should not be used before the official “I do.<\/strong>” For this reason, people most often use the initials of their first names in the monogram\u2014for example, M&F (Meggie and Filip).<\/p> \n \n

If you are so excited that you want to use your future surname regardless of tradition, the following rules apply:<\/p> \n \n

Rule 1 \u2013 Taking the groom’s surname<\/h3> \n \n

If the bride takes the groom’s last name, the monograms are pretty clear. In most cases, the first initial is the first letter of the bride’s name, followed by the initial of the surname she takes over and then the initial of the groom’s name. For example Meggie \u0160tenta marries Filip Topi\u0107, in which case the monogram should read: MTF, where the T is more pronounced.<\/strong> <\/p> \n \n

Rule 2 \u2013 Sharing the newlyweds’ surname<\/h3> \n \n

If the bride and groom decide to share their surnames, they would be the \u0160tenta-Topi\u0107 family; therefore, the monogram would read M \u0160-T F.<\/strong><\/p> \n \n

Rule 3 \u2013 Retention of the bride’s surname<\/h3> \n \n

If the bride decides to keep her surname, the couple’s monogram will be just a double initial, i.e. two initials of the surname separated by a dot or some other design element. In that case, the monogram would read \u0160-T<\/strong><\/p> \n \n

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More and more couples want to personalize their wedding invitations, and what better way to do so than with a monogram? A monogram often serves as a “wedding logo,” featuring the bride and groom’s initials\u2014usually in a script font. Wedding invitations and monograms go together like coffee and milk. Popular wedding trends for 2020 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18126,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[510],"tags":[516,533,534,518],"class_list":["post-18125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tips-for-the-bride","tag-invitations","tag-monogram","tag-rules","tag-wedding"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isaidyees.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isaidyees.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isaidyees.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isaidyees.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isaidyees.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.isaidyees.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18127,"href":"https:\/\/www.isaidyees.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18125\/revisions\/18127"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isaidyees.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isaidyees.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isaidyees.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isaidyees.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}