The invitation is the card that allows you to invite someone to an event.
Invitation is the act and result of being invited or inviting . The verb invite , for its part, is interpreted as the action of summoning or encouraging an individual to attend some kind of event or meeting.
The term has its origins in the Latin invitation . For example: “I just received Jorge's invitation to attend his birthday,” “I came to give you a formal invitation to the center's opening ,” “We have to order the invitation cards for the wedding.”
Invitation to an event
The form that is used to invite or that is received when someone invites us to an event, as well as the card or voucher that is purchased to enter certain celebrations, events or events, is also known as an invitation: “Without an invitation, you cannot enter the living room” , “Look how beautiful the invitation to María's party” , “I can't believe it, I lost the invitation... how are we going to get into the party?” .
Birthday parties, formal dinners, weddings, baptisms and communions are some of the events whose communication is done through printed invitations. Typically, the host sends or delivers the invitation directly to the guest, who has the opportunity to accept or reject the proposal.
The reason, date , time and place are some of the information that must appear on an invitation. In certain cases, information about the type of clothing that is appropriate for the event is also included.
In informal events (such as a dinner with friends or a date to go to the movies), on the other hand, the invitation is usually made through a phone call, by email or in person, without any stipulated rules or social conventions.
The invitation to an informal meeting can be made by telephone.
The concept through time
Surely everything stated above represents the image that almost all of us had of the term invitation until a little over a decade ago. And it may continue to be that way for some people. But this concept has undergone changes, much like airline tickets, which were once identified with rectangular sheets of paper, similar in shape to a check but larger, and which today have been reduced to mere codes that are sent by email and which can be taken to the airport on a mobile phone.
However, invitations have not only entered the world of computing to be replaced by virtual messages that may or may not emulate cards in physical format, but the term has acquired a new use, related to the participation of social networks , and which today is more frequent than that related to parties and events. Very often we receive messages inviting us to share our resume on a job search site, or to visit the profile of a person we know, or even to try a game to try to beat the score of a contact (misnamed "friend"). .
It is true that the basic meaning has not changed, since it maintains the notion of an offer or request, of "opening the doors to", but the context is very different. Likewise, an invitation to a party , fifty years ago, had to be surrounded by emotions, such as nervousness about not knowing what outfit to choose, or the desire to see that person after so long. Certainly, not even in high society one or more invitations were received per day, and that made them unexpected and special .
The concept of invitation is a clear example of the cultural tendency of this time towards excess, noise and lack of commitment: we want everything and that's it, we quickly get tired of things and give a click the weight of the word .