Have Fun, Be Creative with Your Wedding Invitations

We all know how important wedding invitations are in setting the tone of your wedding. The impression it makes will set the mood and the excitement of those you wish to share your special day. The task of creating your invites may be a bit difficult especially when you want your invitations to be unique and different from the conventional ones.

There are many unique wedding invitation designs, one of which is using an animated image in front of your invitations like a couple holding hands or hitch hiking. You can be creative in selecting your image depending on the message you want to send across. Some couples do away with the conventional format. They make use of invitations that look like tickets to an event. If you are inviting a couple, then make sure you send two invitation tickets. There are those who even select a newspaper type of invitation just like those posted in the classified ads. Some design their reply cards as postcards, thereby saving them the time and labor of opening several envelopes. If you want something really special, you could hire a wedding invitation specialist to design an image just for you.

When it comes to the wordings on your wedding invitations, you could choose a few lines from a favorite song, ideally a theme song instead of the usual poem or Bible quotes. To be innovative, you can create a foldout card using 4 or 5 panels. This keeps the suspense high as your guests eagerly anticipate something wonderful in unfolding each panel. This panel could have a line of a rhyme talking about the upcoming wedding. For instance right in one panel you could write, “We request your presence and your best wishes too”. Then the next panel will have “on July 7th as we exchange and say I do!” The last panel could then have the formal invitation. You could also be creative in your response cards, giving your guests a few choices that they could just mark. Examples of these choices are: ___ Will be glad to attend, ___ Eagerly anticipating and excited to attend, ____ Sadly, cannot attend and will make it up to you in a million ways.

Some simple ways to embellish your invites is to attach or glue a charm in the ribbon that you will be using to close your cards. Choose one that will suit your wedding theme like a butterfly or a leaf if it is a garden wedding, or a slipper for a beach wedding. As embellishments to your wedding invitations, use embossed stickers or scrapbooking materials to add color to your stationery or to be used in sealing your envelopes. There are actually very wonderful wedding invitations stationery in a variety of colors and texture. You could experiment with silver or bronze rather than the usual white. You could also use perfume and spray this on your wedding invitations. Choose a fragrance that will less likely cause allergies. Be innovative with rose petals, confetti or tiny red foil hearts that you could insert in your wedding invitations. You could make your invites make a great impression by carefully mixing colors, designs and wordings. Too much of it may not come out well because it will just be a jumble of so many elements. Keeping it simple is safe but you could use your creativity by adding a few elements to make your wedding invitations stand out.