Designing and Planning Your Wedding Invitations

Choose The Theme For Your Wedding Invitations

You can choose from various papers such as metallic, card stock, handmade, fine, Japanese or translucent paper. All of these types of paper come in a variety of colours and shapes. You will want to pick out a colour that will match your wedding colours.

If you don't want a plain wedding invitation, you can pick out a theme to have printed onto the wedding invitations. There are various themes that you can pick out that include couples pictures, wedding cakes, flute glasses and hearts to name just a few. You could also have a picture of the actual couple, or church, or wedding venue printed right onto the invitation. If you chose to have a picture printed on the invitation you might want to consider using the translucent paper as a part of your invitation. When you use translucent paper you can have the words printed on the sheer sheet with the picture underneath for a very elegant look.

Guide to Wedding Invitations

Wedding Invitation Design Ideas

Invitation Size and Shape

Once you have picked out the paper and theme, you can then decide what size and shape you would like the invitation to be. You can pick out a long and thin invitation, a short and wide one or one that is in the shape of an object such as a cake, heart or glass.

Adding Special Effects On The Wedding Invitation

The next step is to choose if you would like to add an accent to the invitation. You can choose from ribbons and bows or metal objects such as hearts, champagne glasses or doves. There are a variety of accents to choose from to match your interests or style of your wedding. 

DIY Wedding Invitation Kits

If you do not want to go to a specialty card shop or design your invitations online, you can order a wedding invitation kit. These kits include pre-designed cards, return cards and envelopes. Once you receive the kit, all you have to do is add the text that you choose and any other additional pictures or flares you may want to add and press print. These kits often come with test paper so you can make sure your invitation is exactly the way you want it before you print them all out.

Your Own Unique Wedding Announcement

As you can see, invitations are one of the most essential parts of your wedding preparations. It is a very important decision and by choosing a specialty shop, you'll be able to announce your wedding in your very own unique way.