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** Wedding Invitations Ideas **

When it comes to unique and innovative wedding invitations ideas, look no further! We create wedding invitations to your budget and your specifications. We believe that no two weddings are alike and therefore prefer to custom make wedding invitations according to our clients' specific theme, colours and needs. With over 7 years of design and print background, we are able to work with you to create wedding invitations that fit both your budget and your dreams!

Your wedding invitation is the most important piece of communication your guests will receive ahead of your wedding day.

It is likely they will hold on to this as a memento and you will definitely be keeping a copy in your wedding album to reminisce about with your grandchildren!

Not only does it provide your guests with pertinent information like date, time, venue and dress, it also conveys the theme, the style and colours you have selected.

Your wedding invitations give your guests an impression of what they can expect on the day. They should create a sense of excitement and anticipation and make your guests want to attend!

We offer a variety of wedding invitation services. If your budget is constrictive, we are able to supply you with the final design to have printed by your local print shop, with a wedding invitation kit containing the supplies and directions needed to make your own wedding invitation.

Alternatively, if fiddling with ribbons, beads and glue is not really your thing, we also offer a "seal and send wedding invitations" service where invitations arrive fully assembled as ordered. Check out our on-line gallery for some examples of wedding invitations. If you are interested in our wedding invitations ideas and would like us to help with your stationery, please complete your details in the box below...

Some Wedding Invitations Ideas

What is the overall impression you would like to convey? What statement would you like to make? What are you aiming for? What type of wedding do you want?

What your wedding will be like will first be conveyed through your invitations so you will need to have a clear vision of your big day so that the invitations can be designed with the same vision in mind.

Here are some wedding invitations ideas to get you going:

  • Layout and print your info on a piece of textured A4 size paper. Roll it up into a scroll. Tie with a ribbon in your colour scheme. Print your guests name on a separate piece of paper (approximately the size of an envelope label) punch a hole and tie it to the bottom of the ribbon. Tie some beads to the bottom of the ribbon to finish it off and there you go - very cheap wedding invitations!

  • Beach theme wedding invitations? What about using a bucket and spade as the invitation? You could print the guests names and attach it to the front of the bucket and tie the actual invitation with map etc to the spade. Perhaps you could find these in the same colours as your wedding?

  • A blow up kiddies swimming ring with the printed invitation details to serve as the blow up ring's packaging would serve as rather quirky and fun wedding invitations for a beach theme. Your wording could be something along the lines of - "It's sink or swim time - Ashley and Peter are exchanging vows!"

  • For a winter wedding, snowflake wedding invitations are really pretty. Use the snowflake as a design element with lots of light blues and silver. You could - if the budget allows - get this embossed, die-cut or spot varnished if you are printing it professionally. Get some snowflake confetti and some fairy dust glitter and put this inside your card before slipping it into the envelope. When your guests open the invitation, the snowflakes and glitter will sprinkle out making them feel like they are inside a snow globe!

  • Planning a wedding on a cruise ship? Creating a "boarding ticket" style invitation, slipped into a mock travel agent sleeve (maybe even with your names - Ben and Jeannie Agencies) will make for a great cruise wedding invitation.

  • Getting married in Autumn? Stick to warm reds and oranges and yellows as the colours for your autumn wedding invitations. Think rustling leaves and if you are able to hand deliver them all, how tying the invitations to a small hand-held rake? Your wedding invitation wording could be something along the lines of "We are raking in the good times! Michelle and Kevin are getting married. Join us as we rustle up a few good friends on ..."

  • Getting married over Christmas? A Christmas tree decoration, or a Christmas cookie serve as great Christmas wedding invitation ideas! Tie them together with a little ribbon. Or put the invitation in a box, wrap it in Christmas paper with a huge big bow and hand deliver them dressed as the-soon-to-be Mr & Mrs Claus.

  • Getting married over Christmas and need some inexpensive wedding invitations? See if you can find some blank Christmas cards - you know the ones - printed on the outside but blank on the inside? You can print out your wedding info and paste it on the inside and voila! A Christmas wedding invitation that did not break the bank! Plus - if you go shopping now, you may find some, somewhere in the FOR SALE bin. Ask around at your local shops. These are sure to be much cheaper now!

  • Got a vineyard wedding theme? Design your invitation to be a wine bottle label. Or if you are really creative and have some cash to spend - how about a tasting guide? You can get really creative with this! Or even a small bottle of wine with the invite details either printed on the label and applied to the bottle or tied to the bottle neck. Packaged in a neat little wooden box. You could have your initials burnt into the wood. These make for really classy vineyard wedding invitations that people will hold on to as mementos!


    Wedding invitation wording examples

    You will need to obviously cover the basics: parents names where you want them (if you want them at all), who is getting married, where and what time, kids vs. no kids, what to wear, what time to be there and whether you want toasters or not.

    Stuck for ideas? Then check out these wedding invitation wording examples

    Whether you are choosing the traditional Wordsworth route, or deciding to just say "Word" to your homies...here are some wedding invitation poems and wording ideas to consider...


    Wedding Invitations Ideas Through The Ages

    While planning how you will be inviting your guests to partake in your big event may be something new to you...weddings, and the personal invitations to guests have been around for centuries!

    In the very beginning, before the invention of the printing press, weddings were announced by means of a town crier and anyone hearing the announcement was considered invited. Perhaps not terribly personal, but certainly the means to a mean celebration!!

    In the Middle Ages, illiteracy was widespread, so the practice of sending written wedding invitations was reserved for the nobility. The affluent members of society would commission monks, skilled in the art of calligraphy, to craft personalised invitations for them. These were personally delivered and usually held the family coat of arms or a wax seal.

    In 1642, the invention of metal-plate engraving brought a wider range and higher-quality wedding invitations ideas within the reach of the emerging middle class. The engraved invitations were protected from smudging by a sheet of tissue paper placed on top, which is a tradition that remains to this day. Wording was elaborate and guests names were individually printed or written onto the invitation.

    By the late 1700's, it became possible to produce very sharp and distinctive inking without the need for engraving through lithography. This paved the way for the emergence of a genuine mass-market in wedding invitations. Wedding invitations were still delivered by hand and on horseback, however, due to the unreliability of the postal system. A ‘double envelope’ was used to protect the invitation from damage en route to its recipient.

    The origins of commercially printed 'fine wedding stationery' can be traced to the period immediately following World War II, where a combination of democracy and rapid industrial growth gave the common man the ability to mimic the life-styles and materialism of society's elite.

    Today, through the advances of print and computer technology, invitations can be massed produced, or printed from home, embossed, gold-leafed, spot printed, varnished, hand-tied, homemade, designer designed or even sandblasted on a glass bottle. Today - your options are endless and only limited by your imagination!





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