How to fill and issue a wedding invitation?

The organization of a wedding celebration is a troublesome and serious matter, where you can not forget about any little things, even about the design and content of the invitation. About such a wedding attribute is to take care in advance and send it no later than 2 months before the upcoming wedding.

Wedding invitations can be purchased at the store, made with your own hands and made to order from professional craftsmen. Store designs are more affordable than customized cards, but their choice is not so wide, and it may happen that at your wedding and a similar celebration a friend will be completely identical inside and outside invitations. You must admit that it is not very pleasant, because you always want your personal celebration to be special.

Invitation on special order 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 making them. Here, of course, it will take a lot of time to carefully make each sample. Familiarity with the scrapbooking technique and good materials are also important: cardboard, ink, paper, paint, decor.

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

For modern celebrations with an emphasis on the color aspect, invitations should also contain this shade. For example, ayvor, purple, mint, cream, blue. Thematic event requires appropriate invitation.

Classic postcards can be replaced with a message in a bottle, a vinyl record with an invitation lettering instead of the traditional name of musical numbers, a balloon with a note, an old scroll. Such a design will give the guests some guidelines regarding the subject 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 by sending it to recipients by email.

Such interactive messages have significant advantages over paper versions:

• delivered instantly;
• do not get 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 to hear warm words than to read a dry invitation text.

But there are invitations in the video format and a big drawback. The invitation is always present a lot of important information about the time of the beginning of the celebration, the place of its holding. Listened to, this information will be quickly forgotten. Therefore, guests will still have somewhere to mark yourself the coordinates of the upcoming event.

If desired, and enough time, young people can use the invitation and on paper, and with video. Moreover, many invitees keep beautiful cards after the wedding, as a memory of that solemn and joyful day.

In addition to standard invitation cards with detailed information about the wedding day, it has recently been decided to send out preliminary invitation cards, which are fashionably called in English - Save the Date. Such postcards 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 of the opportunity to attend the event. After all, one of the guests can live in other cities or even abroad, someone may have already booked a ticket to hot countries or going on a business trip.

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

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

It is very important that in addition to the important dates, place and time of the ceremony, in the subtext of the invitation card one could feel the desire of the young people to see the guest at their celebration. It is not necessary to contact relatives by name and patronymic, it is much warmer, for example, it sounds like “dear and beloved ones”. It is necessary to pick up beautiful words in which you would feel not only your joy from the upcoming day, but also your warm attitude to the invited people.

To make a sensual invitation to a wedding celebration is very difficult. For creative ideas you can turn to the Internet. Naturally, repeating the text “from the web” is not exactly welcome, it is necessary to add something individual to it. For example, the mention of an event that introduced or brought you closer to an invited guest or joke, which is clear only to you.

Even if a personally signed card is far from calligraphic accuracy, personal appeal and the introduction of the invitation element hand made will deeply touch the addressee and will strengthen friendship and family relations. The poetry invitation is best avoided. Most often they are knocked out of the general context of the wedding, despite the fact that the 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 your sincerity and cordial warmth are felt.

Wedding invitations must contain the following information:

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

The addresses of the registration and the banquet are necessary so that those guests who have lingered on the way can easily join the festive events without bothering any of the guests to try to understand where the wedding is going. It will be useful to attach to the invitation and a short announcement of the wedding day.

For example:

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

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

• whether guests need to get to the place on their own, or there will be a customized transfer;
• how guests from other cities will be able to quickly get to the house of the bride or the groom to participate in the redemption;
• as invited to get to the venue of the ceremony and festive banquet.

The last point 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 advanced 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 once.

With regard to appeals to recipients of invitation, it depends on how you are with them. For example, in invitations for friends, it is permissible to write only names, contact the management and colleagues by their patronymic name. To aunts, uncles, godparents, you can refer to: "Dear Natalia Leonidovna." And to mom: "Honey" or "Beloved Mom."

Words of gratitude to parents, written in the invitation, touch to the depths of the soul. The picture from the famous Love is chewing gum looks very nice. She seems to support the above words and hints at the connection of generations through love. Unusually, "antique" look invitation-scrolls. Monograms, dilapidated edges, a poetic syllable, an appeal to the mother to “You”, an ornate font - all this is imbued with nobility and great respect for the person you are inviting.

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

The invitation to the wedding looks very unusual in the form of a ticket to the sea. On the map of the seating arrangement of guests, all the tables go not under numbers, but under the names of continents. In the invitation of each guest his table-continent is already indicated.

Associations with the sea and relaxation are enhanced by the design of postcards in sandy-azure colors, with drawings of sails, palm trees, a compass, thin 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 for tea, each guest may think about how sweet the life of the young is, how beautiful and happy they are, and maybe even recall the beginning of their family life.

The inscription can be gilded with food coloring, decorated with floral motifs. Invitation of chocolate can be transferred to guests in a thick envelope or a small cardboard box.

Fashionable wedding invitations look like wooden puzzles. These accessories with all the necessary information about the festive event can later be stored as a keepsake by hanging on the refrigerator (if the puzzle has a magnet on the other side) or used as a key fob.

It can not touch the charmingly gentle invitation with the appeal "Mom". It would seem that there are no other words of gratitude to my mother, no poems, but this very first word is so strong that it already defines the whole tone of the children’s address to the parent. Affectionate "name" is supported by the signature "With love." Pale pink flowers, branches, blueberries and feathers indicate that the newlyweds thought about everything well 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 the azure sky is a symbol of pure motives. An invitation made in such colors is associated with sincerity and trust. The font is like a handwriting, highlighting important words in capital letters, and, most importantly, a very frank promise of young people to each other can not touch the hearts of the recipients, and especially the parents.

The invitation in a bundle with red and white lace and similar color with satin ribbons, decorated on the inside with a happy photo of lovers, already introduces each guest to the future family in absentia.

To learn how to arrange a wedding invitation with your own hands, see the next video.