using poetry on stationery

You arent selling the invitations, you are giving them to guests so you could pretty much use anything you like! A nice shakespeares sonnet would be lovely on an invitation, in part....but thats just me being all theatrical as usual

As far as I know if you are doing them yourself than there should be no problem about putting the poems on there, I used a poem on my wedding scrolls for my wedding, and all I did was put the authors name in smaller writing underneath and also a lot of older poetry is out of copyright as far as I am aware.

Also hello and good luck with planning your wedding.

We are using a short fun poem on our invites so i would say using poetry is fine,

good luck with your planning, its great fun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I think it could work... we didn't use poetry on the invites, but we did use two quotes on our order od days.

Hi Mel,

The short answer is you are not likely to get 'done' at all. I've never heard of anybody being sued by using poetry extracts for wedding stationery or anything similar.

The long answer is that it depends whether the poetry is 'in copyright' or not. In the UK copyright lasts for 70 years after the authors death. So most older famous qoutes and poems are fine, Shakespear, Byron, Shelly etc. Whilst if you choose something more recent technically you need the authors permission to use it unless they gave it something called a 'creative commons licence' which allows others to use it for certain things (normally non-commercial use).

You're welcome to use any of the poems or qoutes on my site PhotoLoveLetter.com, you will find them in the 'poem picker', all the material has been checked out for any copyright issues, just cut and paste the bits you want.

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