How to fill out and issue a wedding invitation?

The organization of a wedding celebration is a troublesome and serious matter where you can’t forget about any little things, even the design and content of invitations. Such a wedding attribute should be taken care of in advance and sent out no later than 2 months before the upcoming wedding.

Wedding invitations can be purchased at the store, made by yourself and to order from professional masters. Store samples are more affordable than custom-made postcards, but their choice is not so wide, and it may turn out that at your wedding and a similar celebration your friend will have completely identical invitations inside and out. Agree, it’s not very pleasant, because you always want your personal celebration to be special.

Special order invitations will meet all your requirements., but their purchase will cost a tidy sum. A more economical way to make beautiful invitations is to apply your own skills to their manufacture. Here, of course, it will take a lot of time to carefully manufacture each sample. Familiarity with scrapbooking techniques and good materials are also important: cardboard, ink, paper, paints, decor.

The design of postcards should correspond to the general stylistic orientation of the event. If the wedding will be held according to the classical canons, then cards for guests can be any. As a rule, these are traditional symbols of love: rings, hearts, flowers, pigeons, lace elements.

For modern celebrations with an emphasis on the color aspect, invitations should also contain this shade. For example, ivory, lilac, mint, cream, blue. The thematic event requires appropriate invitations.

Classical postcards can be replaced with a message in a bottle, a vinyl plate with an invitation lettering instead of the traditional name of musical numbers, a balloon with a note, an old scroll. Such a design will set some guidelines for guests regarding the themes of the upcoming wedding.

For friends and relatives, you can prepare a video invitation by posting it on Youtube, on a business card website or simply sending it to recipients by e-mail.

Such interactive messages have significant advantages over paper options:

• delivered instantly;
• will not be lost (unless for some reason the letter does not fall into spam);
• it is more pleasant to see a live picture with familiar faces and hear warm words than to read a dry invitation text.

But there are invitation cards in video format and a big drawback. The invitation always contains a lot of important information about the time of the start of the celebration, the place of its holding. Perceived by ear, this information is quickly forgotten. Therefore, guests will still have to mark the coordinates of the upcoming event somewhere.

If desired, and a sufficient amount of time, young people can use invitations both on paper and with video. Moreover, many invited people keep beautiful cards after the wedding as a memory of that solemn and joyful day.

In addition to standard invitations with detailed information about the wedding day, recently it has been customary to send out preliminary invitations, which are fashionably named in English - Save the Date. Such cards are sent to all guests whom the young people would like to see at their wedding, immediately after determining the date of the solemn event. This is done so that the invitees have time to notify the spouses about the opportunity to attend the event. After all, some of the guests can live in other cities or even abroad, someone may already have booked a ticket to hot countries or are going on a business trip.

With a large number of guests, printing of invitations to a wedding, as a rule, is ordered at the printing house. In this case, the spouses will only have to fill in the columns with the names of the guests. Many newlyweds do not even want to sign invitations, worrying that their handwriting is not beautiful enough. Therefore, a calligrapher often signs the invitation. This, of course, looks very impressive, but the amount for such a service will come out rather big.

The closest relatives (parents, godfathers) and friends can write invitations by hand or by typing on a computer. The main thing in this situation is the lack of punctuation or spelling errors. In the computer version, an electronic editor will help to avoid this situation, which will highlight the error in color. And in the paper version you will have to rely on yourself, your soulmate and, if necessary, the Russian language dictionary.

It is very important that in addition to the important dates, place and time of the ceremony, in the subtext of the invitation card, you feel the desire of the young to see the guest at their holiday. It is not necessary to contact relatives by first name and patronymic, much warmer, for example, it will sound: "dear and beloved." You need to pick up beautiful words in which you would feel not only your joy from the coming day, but also your warm attitude to the invited people.

Making a sensual invitation to a wedding is very difficult. For creative ideas, you can turn to the Internet.Naturally, repeating the text “from the web” is not exactly welcomed, you need to add something individual to it. For example, the mention of some event that introduced or brought you closer to an invited guest or a joke that is understandable only to you.

Even if a hand-signed card is far from calligraphic accuracy, personal appeal and entering the hand made element into the invitation will touch the addressee to the core and strengthen friendship and family relations. Poetic invitations are best avoided. Most often, they get out of the general context of the wedding, despite the fact that a syllable borrowed from the Internet does not shine with beauty and originality. It is better to write a few simple sentences in your own words, in which you feel your sincerity and warmth.

Wedding invitations must contain the following information:

• number of triumph;
• start of the registration ceremony for young people (address)
• the beginning of the festive banquet with the exact coordinates of the cafe;
• signatures of the spouses (if the invitation card is of an official nature, then the signatures must contain the names and surnames of the bride and groom).

Addresses for registration and a banquet are necessary so that those guests who delayed their journey can easily join the festive events, without bothering any of the guests with attempts to understand where the wedding is taking place. It will be useful to attach to the invitation and a short announcement of the wedding day.

For instance:

• 11.00 - registration;
• 15.30 - banquet (indicate the name of the restaurant and its location);
• 21.00 - festive fireworks.

You can add another small leaflet to the invitations, on which there will be additional information about:

• whether guests need to get to the place on their own or will there be a registered transfer;
• how guests from other cities will be able to quickly get to the house of the bride or groom to participate in the ransom;
• how to invite guests to the venue of the ceremony and the banquet.

The last paragraph is appropriate for youth weddings, which are often held in any subject: Provence, retro, Italian, pirate and others. Here you need to understand that guests of a respectable age will not be delighted with such an idea and may simply not come to the event. In addition, an evening with a certain theme sometimes requires real costumes, and not everyone can afford to sew such an outfit at one time.

As for appeals to recipients of invitations, it depends on what kind of relationship you are with them. For example, in invitations for friends, it is permissible to write only names, you should contact the management and colleagues by name. You can turn to aunts, uncles, godparents like this: "Dear Natalya Leonidovna." And to mom: "Dear" or "Beloved mother."

Words of gratitude to parents, written in invitations, touch to the core. The picture from the famous Love is chewing gum looks very cute. She seems to reinforce the above words and hints at the connection of generations through love. Unusually, "antique" look invitation cards. Monograms, dilapidated land, a poetic syllable, an appeal to mother on “You”, an ornate font - all this is saturated with nobility and great respect for the invited person.

The following design of invitation cards can be attributed to the retro style in terms of design. The first thing that sends us to the last century is a black and white design. The aristocracy of invitations is added by the sketch of a man and a lady in a magnificent dress on horses, perfectly even lines framing the invitation, font, beautifully woven initials - a monogram of the young (even an imprint is made on the envelope). An interesting addition to the invitation is a leaflet with a menu.This was probably done so that the guests decided in advance on their culinary preferences and informed the newlyweds.

A wedding invitation in the form of a voucher at sea looks very unusual. On the map-seating plan for guests, all the tables do not go under the numbers, but under the names of the continents. In the invitation of each guest, his continental table is already indicated.

Associations with the sea and relaxation are strengthened by the design of postcards in sand-azure colors, with drawings of sails, palm trees, a compass, fine twine and a wax seal. A pleasant mood for the upcoming ceremony will be an invitation in the form of a chocolate card. Having tasted dessert with tea, each guest can think about how sweet the life of young people is, how beautiful and happy they are, and maybe even remember about the beginning of their family life.

The inscription can be gilded using food coloring, decorated with floral motifs. An invitation from chocolate can be given to guests in a thick envelope or a small cardboard box.

Wedding invitations in the form of wooden puzzles look fashionable. These accessories with all the necessary information about the festive event can subsequently be kept as a keepsake by hanging on the refrigerator (if the puzzle has a magnet on the other hand) or used as a key fob.

Can not help but touch the charmingly tender invitation with the appeal of "Mom." It would seem that there are no other words of gratitude to mom, there are no poems, but this very first word is so strong that it already determines the whole tone of the children’s appeal to the parent. The affectionate "name" is reinforced with the signature "With love." Soft pink flowers, branches, blueberries and feathers indicate that the newlyweds thought it over and decided to make a family nest. Their love is tender, like flowers on a postcard, and soon there will be fruits of this love - children.

The color of sky blue is a symbol of pure impulses. An invitation made in such colors is associated with sincerity and trust. Font - as if by hand, highlighting important words in capital letters, and, most importantly, a very frank promise of young people to each other cannot but touch the hearts of the recipients, and even more so the parents.

An invitation in a package with red and white lace and satin ribbons of the same color, decorated on the inside with a happy photograph of lovers, already familiarizes each guest with their future family in absentia.

See how to get your own wedding invitation cards in the next video.