5 Tips for Choosing Wedding Invitations
October 20, 2010
- Ideas for choosing wedding invitations
One of the essential parts of planning a wedding is choosing wedding invitations to send to your guests. There are a lot of different options available on the market, or you could take the creative route and design your own.
Whatever you’re going to do, you’ll have to carefully think about the type of design for the invitations that you’d like to choose. Here five practical tips for choosing wedding invitations.
1. First Impressions Count
Your wedding invitation is one of the first things that guests to your wedding will see so it’s important that it makes the right impression. You want it to be memorable, so that people think fondly of your wedding, but not too weird or wacky that it will stick out in their minds for the wrong reasons!
2. Wedding Invitation Cost
The cost of your wedding invitations is likely to be an important factor. If you’ve got a budget to stick to, then you need to think about the most cost effective way of obtaining invitations, as well as getting the quality you desire. Of course, you can seriously cut down on the cost of purchasing wedding invitations by making them yourself.
3. Wedding Invitation Design
The design of your wedding invitations can reflect both your wedding theme and your individual personalities. When you’re first planning your wedding theme, think about the way in which it could be reflected by your wedding invitations. For example, if you’re having a red theme and want hand-tied ribbon bouquets, then the same ribbon could be incorporated into your wedding invitations, such as tied around them or stuck onto them.
Elegant wedding invitation
4. Wedding Invitation Colour
The standard colours of wedding invitations are white, cream or ivory card, but there’s no reason why yours can’t be produced on coloured card instead. If you’re using white, cream or ivory, then it’s a nice idea to coordinate this with the colour of your wedding dress.
5. Wedding Invitation Size
Don’t forget to consider the size of your wedding invitations too. They need to be an ample size to enable you to include all the relevant information on them, but not too big that it will cost you more to send them through the post.
When to Send Out Wedding Invitations?
October 6, 2010
Wedding invitation
So you’ve got engaged and are busy planning your special wedding day. It’s only natural to want all your friends and family to be free to celebrate your day with you, but when should you send out the official wedding invitations?
Choosing When to Send Out Your Wedding Invitations
There’s nothing worse than announcing your much planned wedding day date and then finding that your nearest and dearest can’t come, as they’ve already got plans for that day or have major commitments elsewhere. But it’s often a conundrum for brides-to-be on when is best to send out your wedding invitations.
On the one hand, you don’t want to send them too early, that it may slip people’s minds, but neither do you want to send your wedding invitations too late and risk the problem that may already have other events planned by the time they do receive it.
As a rough guide, sending out wedding invitations about four months in advance is the average choice of many wedding parties. But if you’re having a wedding abroad and want people to attend, or you wedding is in the heart of one of the popular wedding periods, such as June, July or August, or on a day when there are other major events happening, then you may want to choose to let your wedding guests know sooner.
Send Out Save The Date Cards
As a prelim to sending out your actual wedding invitations, you could send out some ‘Save the Date Cards’. These help give your wedding guests advance notice that you’ve set a date for your wedding and remind them to keep the date free from other social engagements, but allow you plenty of time to sort out your proper wedding invitations.
If your wedding is in the summer, then it can be good to send out Save the Date Cards with any Christmas cards you’re sending. Just pop the small date card inside the Christmas card and save money on stamps and postage costs.
Alternatively, you could email everyone with an electronic Save the Date card and save money on postage altogether. Of course, you’ve got to hope that everyone will read their email (there’s always someone who doesn’t!) and make a note of it in their diary.