Wedding is one of the most important occasions of ones life. It is that one special day when we wish all arrangements to go perfectly as planned. Wedding invitations are among one of the first things that we plan after all events, dates, and venues are fixed. Wedding invitation is no ordinary invitation'it is a special invitation for the special day.
All couples desire designing a beautiful and unique invitation for their life's most important day. In order to design a distinctive marriage invitation, you need to explore your imagination and design a card which would best express your feelings when inviting family and friends to your wedding. There are a few things that you need to consider when designing the card. This article briefly summarizes the most important things that one must know before giving order to print the wedding invitation cards.
Unique wedding invitation designs: Explore the market and online stores and select a unique design. There are different wedding invitations according to the event -- for engagement, bridal shower, or rehearsal dinner. If you are going for a destination wedding on a beach then, your invitation must reflect that by way of colors, design layout and wordings.
Design and Theme: According to the design and theme, you can choose a formal engraved wedding invitation or a casual invitation theme with bright colors. There are so many wedding invitation stores online offering great designs in varying theme. Check them out and select the invitation that suits your wedding occasion the most. Colors, design and wordings must complement each other and must reflect the essence of the wedding theme.
Couple's Picture: You can also choose to include a picture of the couple to make the invitation stand out. If the idea of a picture does not attract you, you can go for a professional sketch or portrait. This will surely enhance the wedding invitation.
Information and Wordings: A wedding invitation must include venue details, date and time details, and also information about the parents of the couple. A location map for direction can be added. The tone of the invitation's wordings can be emotional, formal, or casual/ funny ?just remember you need to be polite.
Response Card: A response card with a stamped envelope can be enclosed. A response card is supposed to be filled and sent back so that a general estimate of the number of guests can be obtained. This helps in making food and drinks arrangements, etc.
After marriage, it would be nice if you could give thanks-giving card to all those who made your marriage a memorable occasion. You can give return gifts as well. Wedding Invitation Cards at Printe-Z, are exceptional in quality and competitive in pricing. You can personalize design and proof your wedding invitations online.
12th century, wedding invitations
Did you know that during 12th century, wedding invitations were announced by spreading the word. The job was performed by the town criers who used to stand in the village square and announce weddings.
It is true that the price of wedding invitation is just a fraction of other wedding items such as your wedding gown and wedding photography. As a result couples may put less emphasis on their wedding invitations. This is especially true when couples feel the wedding invitations are too expensive. They would rather go for cheaper options even if quality is sacrificed. However, virtually no couple will sacrifice the quality of other wedding items. In Hong Kong, a couple will spend about USD40 for one single wedding photo and they may "buy" fifty of these photos even if it is out of their budget. Such case seldom happens in the field of wedding invitation design.
Besides, some couples maintain that their guests will throw the wedding invitation cards into the rubbish bins anyway, it will be totally a waste to spend so much money on wedding invitations. In this case I believe using email as wedding invitation will be the best solution. However, couples, even if they think their guests will throw the invitation cards away sooner or later, are usually reluctant to adopt this idea of email wedding invitations.
In fact, I believe that these couples are facing a dilemma. On one hand they think that a physical wedding invitation card is virtually useless but on the other hand they may think that an email invitation is somehow impolite. We have to admit that wedding is something strongly connected with etiquette.
Apart from the above, couples may sometimes think that it is not worth spending so much money on the wedding invitations since they can also do the "designs" on their PCs. As a wedding invitation designer, what I observe is that more couples are bringing their computer files to me and asking for quotations in these two years.
It is really good that the couples are trying to involve in the design process. However, one misunderstanding shared by many of these couples is that they think a wedding invitation is just about creating a computer file and have it printed.
Actually, I hold quite a different point of view towards this notion of wedding invitation design. A wedding invitation can be more than a printed material. Although I am a wedding invitation designer myself, I am also an advocate of DIY invitations.
Here DIY refers to the notion of handmade invitations. You may write the contents of the invitation one by one. You may also need to collect different raw materials and put them together to make your invitation. You may even need to learn the Japanese Origami in order to make your own envelope.
If you are ready to spend time to make your own wedding invitation, I will suggest you save a buck and start to design and make your own invitation. You should never sacrifice the quality of any of your wedding items.
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