Creating Invitations

For those with summer or autumn weddings, now is the time to get your invitations sent out, if you haven’t already done so.  The days of spending hours going through the printers sample books to select the perfect invitations are passé.  There are plenty of computer graphics programs which will help you design and print out your invitations. You can make them as flamboyant or as simple as you like and you can embellish them with ribbon, scrapbook lettering, ink stamps, appliqués and just about anything that you can imagine.

Most invitations these days follow in line with the theme of your wedding.  If your colors are the only theme that you are presenting, chances are, you will want your invitations to reflect that simplicity.  But if your theme is something like the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party, for example, you may want to have little hat cutouts, some netting, ribbon, perhaps a patch of felt, and, of course, tea cups!  Your invitations become the template for your decorations for your wedding and reception.

Of course, it is unnecessary to go to all that intricacy if you merely want to make sure that all of your aunts, uncles, cousins and dear friends receive notice that you request the honor of their presence at your nuptials.  Wording is sometimes everything.  Lettering is also something special these days, as we have so many font options to choose from. Wording and lettering should reflect your personalities and the level of seriousness or playfulness that you want your ceremony to reflect.  Traditional wording acknowledges the invitation coming from the parents.  More modern invitations, or invitations from couples who have been down the path before, generally state that the couple is requesting the honor.

Formal or casual, simple or exotic, if the invitations reflect who you are as a couple and the impressions you would like to give your guests, you can’t go wrong.