Your wedding invitation is very important. Most experts will tell you that the invitations will set the tone of your wedding. It also gives the first impression of your big day to your guests. To this end you will try your best to make your wedding invitation really special and unique. However, there are also other items that will come with your wedding invitation and you should also pay attention to all these items so that your wedding card can be a really special one.



The first thing that should be talked about is the save the date card. In fact, you do not send the save the date with your wedding invitation. You are sending it long before you send your invitations. You are sending the card to your guests so that they will arrange beforehand if they are planning to attend to your event. Yet you may not need to send a physical save the date card to your guests. Some couples will send an email to inform their guests about the wedding instead of sending a physical card to them. Of course sending an email will help to save some money.

When you send your wedding invitation, you will probably put a respond card together with the invitation card. As from the name respond card, you will probably know the use of it. It is for your guests to reply if they will attend your wedding or not. Return address will usually be printed on envelop of the respond card. Some couples will design their respond card in a way that it is like a post card. In this case envelops will not be needed.

Your guests will need to find their ways to the wedding location. However, some locations will be quite difficult for them to find their ways. In this case you may want to print a map on the invitation. However, if there is not enough space for you to print the map on it, you may need to print a map card. Some wedding invitation designers may even help you to draw a map such that the style of the map matches the style of the invitation, as well as your wedding theme.

If some of your guests are in the overseas, you may need to advise them things such as accommodations near your wedding location. You may need to prepare some information sheets or information cards for them so that they can arrange the accommodations and transportation without any difficult. However, this is not the own way for you to show your guests the necessary information. A lot of couples will try to put this information on the wedding website so that their guests can refer to the website whenever they need the information.

In some cases you may need to inform some of your friends that you are going to marry while you are not planning to invite them to attend your wedding. In this case you will probably send these friends announcement card. However, one thing you have to remember is that you will usually send the announcement card after your wedding day. It will be very strange for you to send the announcement card before your wedding.