The choice of wedding stationery is very important for a couple as it goes to form the first impression of the ceremony among their guests. Ideally, a wedding invitation should indicate what sort of persons the bride and groom are as well as the style of event that have been planned. If it is your first wedding and you don’t know what to do, just leave it to a good wedding stationery supplier. They have seen it all and they will take care of everything you require.
Besides the invitations, you will require extra envelopes, reply cards, thankyou cards. As part of the wedding stationery, you will also need Order of Service (programs) leaflets, menus, place cards, serviettes, book matches, wedding scrolls, gift registry cards, and seating plans. A single supplier will suit you best as it will save money and time, and also maintain a consistent design.
Formal wedding invitations have traditionally been on ecru, ivory or white card and engraved with black or dark-gray ink. Although this type of wedding stationary remains the most popular choice even today, a great variety of invitations have now come up that suit your style, match the level of formality you desire and also suit your budget for this type of stationery for the wedding. It’s up to the couple to choose the style. They are free to choose anything from formal, semi formal, romantic, funky, kitsch, or a relaxed style. Nowadays even cheap invitations can include textured paper, in multiple colors, embedded flowers, recycled paper, gilt edges, photographs, and a huge variety of other creative options matching your wedding theme. The venue of your wedding ceremony should also play a key role in your choice of invitations. The wedding invitation wording is also extremely important, more so because of the complexities in modern family relationships. Wedding invitations normally include the names of the hosts, which may be your parents, yourselves or both, your own names, and the date, time and location, and reception. You should also add RSVP cards and details. However, the bride and groom these days are increasingly using more personal and creative wording than the conventional, formal wording of the past.
Formal wedding invitations are traditionally engraved wedding stationery, which can be substituted by a relatively cheaper method called thermography. Calligraphy, including the computerized variety, is suitable for a small guest list. As it is a convention that you should address your invitations by hand, you should not forget to order extra envelopes for the inevitable mistakes.
You have to begin writing thank you notes as soon as you start receiving wedding gifts. For convenience, you can order thank you cards along with your wedding stationery so that they match each other. ‘Thank you’ notes should be personal and should specifically mention the gift, and how the bride and groom intend to use it. Don’t order 30 invitations if you invite 30 guests because in many cases more than one can be invited on the same invitation. Don’t forget to keep at least one invitation as a memento.
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