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3 Tips on Making Your Own Wedding Invitations
Making your own invitations.
The top 3 tips to getting started.
When you are planning your wedding it goes without saying that you want your day to be individual, memorable and magical. The key to creating the perfect day or night is in coordinating every detail from start to finish.
Your invitation is the first introduction your guests will receive to your wedding and is therefore one of the most important elements in your wedding preparations. Many brides today elect to make their own invitations using the myriad of gorgeous papers and embellishments that are now on the market. If you are craft minded, then you can create a unique stationary theme for your wedding at a fraction of the cost of professional hand made invitations.
We have helped hundreds of brides put together their invitation making requirements as well as making up invitations galore. We want your invitations to look just as polished as ours, so here are our top 3 tips to getting started on your invitation making journey.
Decide on your Wedding Theme.
This is probably the biggest decision you will have to make when organising your wedding, but once chosen your options to choose from will be greatly reduced and easier to manage.Where to find inspiration? Here are some ideas to think about, how about a colour, flower, place, season, or even your favorite book or film. Think Breakfast at Tiffany’s or Pride and Prejudice. Your chosen venue could suggest an overall look, such are garden or beach. Also a texture could be the start of your theme, think about luxurious nature of satin, silk or lace.
Once you have your theme in mind you can go to a specialist paper and craft store and be able to look at only those papers that fit into your theme.
Choose your envelope first and then make a prototype.
When you are putting together your prototype, make sure that you choose your invitation size first. The best way to do this is to look at the standard envelope sizes and choose one of these to work with.It is easy to get carried away with all the wonderful layering options, only to find, after all your hard work, your invitation will not fit into a standard size envelope.
Post your invitation to yourself.
When you make your prototype, pop it in your chosen envelope and post it to yourself, sounds weird! This is the perfect way you can see how it stands up to the rigors of the postal system.You will find out how much the postage will cost you and if your envelope or box arrives in good order.
If you are using an unusual embellishment or fastener, this is especially true.
We heard of one bride, who used a clay shell for her beach theme invitations. Unfortunately, these disintegrated in the mail and most of the guests received sand in the bottom of their envelope. It still fit with the theme, but was not the look she was after!
This article by: Lynn Crow
Lynn Crow is the founder of Central Coast Based Business, Something Fabulous
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