The paper looks into discourse practices in American wedding invitations, identifying possible trends and patterns. Using predominantly genre analysis ( Swales 2008 ) and Critical Discourse Analysis ( Fairclaugh 1985 ), the paper analyses a corpus of American wedding invitations collected between 2002-2013, identifying their discoursal characteristics, frequency of occurrence, and their communicative purpose. It is concluded that further studies are needed to provide researchers with a more insightful view of the impact of religion and traditions on discursive patterns of different speech events.