Category — Make Your own Wedding Invitations
Top 5 Tips on how to prepare your wedding invitations
Welcome to Simon from become.co.uk (Our First Guest Writer)
You are months away from your wedding and you’re already extremely excited about this special event in your life. Of course you want to communicate your enthusiasm in your wedding invitation. An invitation is a great way to not only tell your guests about the basic information of when and where the event will take place. It also provides a glimpse of how great your wedding is going to be. Your wedding invitation should therefore look very special:
- The best way to start the process of choosing your wedding stationery is to be very creative as early as possible. Around 8 months before the wedding, brain storm about your dream design. Then collect and keep all ideas, regularly look back on them and change things that you want to done differently.
- When you order the invites, don’t just order the exact number. Order ten to twenty more. It is better to have extra invitations left over than running out of invitations in the event that you choose to invite more guests or if there is a misprint or typo on the card. Usually, you will only send one invitation per household unless the child living there is over eighteen years old. Then he or she should also receive an invitation.
- Whether you are hiring a calligrapher or doing the writing on your own, a handwritten invitation looks always better. A great way to achieve beautiful results is by using a Parker fountain pen . Fountain pens have a huge advantage in that you can write more artistically with them than with other pens.
- The invitation should also serve as a comprehensive guide to the wedding. Therefore, it should state the names of the wedding hosts, their parents, the names of the bride and groom, the day of the week and time of wedding, address of venues and RSVP information or response cards. It is common in wedding invitations to spell out everything, so don’t abbreviate anything.
- Print out a list of the guests including their addresses and check it at least twice, if not even more. Make sure there are no typos before getting ready to write or print the address labels. Check it often—it’s better to be safe than sorry and making sure that everyone’s information is correct will save you money and will ensure a great beginning to a wonderful wedding.
Check out Become’s Wedding Etiquette & Gift Ideas page which offers great Thank You gifts ideas for bridesmaids, flower girls, pageboys, ushers, best men or parents of the newlyweds!
Simon from Shopaholic.become.co.uk
April 27, 2010 No Comments
Choosing your wedding invitation fonts
We have many choices of fonts available most of which can be viewed on any computer.
Click here to download our recommended fonts for weddings Wedding Invitations Script Styles
However, if you haven’t found what you’re looking for, we sell a CD which includes wording hymns and fonts to help you make your own wedding invitations. This CD has a lots of extra fonts and are just lovely for wedding invitations
There are plenty of fonts that can be downloaded for free as long they’re being used for personal use. We use 1001freefonts.com as they have a huge selection of traditional to contemporary fonts available.
Examples of modern wedding invitation fonts
For modern invitations, it’s better to choose a sans serif font. These fonts have letters that are open and clean, giving a contemporary feel.
Mix and match fonts
For something a little different, we mix and match our fonts.
The names of the bride and groom and the guest names are in a different font to the rest of the invitation. This really makes the names stand out and give a very fancy look.
Choosing your fonts
When you’re choosing a font, consider the following
- Consider design elements – proportions, size, background colour, foreground colours and line spacing will work differently with each font. Also, once your font is in, how does it affect the rest of your design?
- Think about the materials you’re using. Try to match the font to your style of invitation and the materials you’re using.
- Consider your personality, taste and the theme of your wedding. Does it work with these elements? Does it help you create the ambience you’re looking for?
So, there is no need to choose the first thing that comes to hand– your wedding invitation fonts need a bit more thought. Not only is the style of font critical but it sets the tone for your special day and will also make wedding invitation look complete.
March 29, 2010 No Comments
New Wedding Invitations Wording and Suggestions 2010
Here we have compiled some sample wedding invitations wording for you to use. If you wish to copy this wording for your site then we please request that you put a link back to our site. Otherwise we are happy for you use this wording for your own personal invitations
Sample Wording Below
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Traditional Wedding Invitation wording comes from the Brides Parents Mr & Mrs Wakefield Request the honour of your presence Laura-Jayne Elizabeth Son of On 5th January 2011 St George’s Church, Barton-in-Fabis, |
In some cultures it is customary to include both sets of parents
Mr & Mrs Wakefield Request the pleasure of your company Laura-Jayne Elizabeth On 5th January 2011 |
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We are hosting our own wedding - how do we word our wedding invitations? Ms Laura-Jayne Elizabeth Wakefield Request the pleasure of your company On 5th January 2011 St George’s Church, Barton-in-Fabis, |
We want both sets of parents to be hosting so how do we word our wedding invitations? Mr & Mrs Wakefield and their daughter Together with Mr & Mrs Austin and their son Request the honour of your presence Laura-Jayne Elizabeth |
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My parent is a single parent so how do we word our wedding invitations? Mr Wakefield At the marriage of his daughter Laura-Jayne Elizabeth On 5th January 2011 St George’s Church, Barton-in-Fabis, |
My parents are divorced and have remarried and I wanted to include my stepparent-how do we word our wedding invitations? Jane & Tom Brown At the marriage of Jane Brown’s daughter Laura-Jayne Elizabeth Wakefield Son of Mr & Mrs Austin On 5th January 2011 |
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My parents are divorced how do we word our wedding invitations? Mr Wakefield At the marriage of their daughter Laura-Jayne Elizabeth Wakefield On 5th January 2011 |
We want someone else to host our wedding how do we word our wedding invitations? If the host of the wedding is neither the bride nor the groom’s parents, but another relation, you should word the invitation submitting the word daughter/son and adding the hosts’ relationship. Grandparents = granddaughter/grandson Aunt and uncle = niece/nephew Godparents = goddaughter/godson Foster parents = foster daughter/foster son Brother = sister/brother Sister = sister/brother The wedding’s going to be a joint one
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| The bridal bouquet was thrown, and the garter was tossed! By all present, our love was known, Announcing the marriage of |
BRIDE PARENTS GROOM PARENTS have the honor of announcing the marriage of |
| BRIDE and GROOM Just letting you know! We were married in a small ceremony |
BRIDE’S PARENTS announce the marriage of their daughter BRIDE to GROOM |
| Life of caring and sharing, a love of endless giving together . . . The honor of your presence is requested at the reaffirmation of wedding vows of |
BRIDE Please join them for a celebration on |
| As the flower blooms and petals unfold, we’re soon to say “to have and to hold.” We’ve made the plans and can hardly wait. Our wedding is near and here is the date! We’re getting married on __________________ Please join us for a day to remember! |
Pressing the vision into our hearts, |
| Making their friendship so true after great times and happiness, they’ve said, “I do!” |
Because you have shared in their lives by your friendship and love, the honor of your presence is requested at the reaffirmation of the wedding vows of ________________________ Just married! |
| Because you’ve shared in their lives by your friendship and love, we are very proud to share the happy news. BRIDE daughter of PARENTS and GROOM son of PARENTS were married in a small wedding |
From the moment they met it was a beautiful thing. They knew some day they’d hear wedding bells ring! |
| BRIDE and GROOM are happy to announce their marriage. Please join them for a celebration on |
We’ve Eloped! BRIDE and GROOM |
| Two lives, two hearts joined together in friendship, united forever in love. It is with joy that we, |
Mr. _________ requests the honor |
| Mr. and Mrs. ____________ Request the honor of your presence At the marriage of their daughter/son ___________ |
Mr. and Mrs. ___________ |
| Mr. and Mrs. __________ request the honor of your presence at the marriage of their granddaughter/grandson ________________ |
I never believed love could be so sweet, so overwhelming, so tender. Then I met you. |
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Let this be Our destiny. |
Let this Be our destiny. |
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This day I will marry my friend,
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Each of us a half. incomplete |
| As our marriage brings new meaning to love, So our love brings new meaning to life! |
This day I will marry my friend, the one I laugh with, live for, dream with, and love |
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Happiness is so narrow |
For hearing my thoughts, For filling my life with music I still do!!! |
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I took his hand to have and to hold. |
Just like a page out of a fairy tale, |
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Two lives – Two hearts |
We met at a masquerade ball. Although I didn’t lose my glass slipper, |
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On our wedding day, |
The miracle of love is |
| The promise of our life together is as bright as the Colors of the rainbow |
In the sweetness of love, |
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How beautiful is the day |
The most joyous of occasions |
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We walked through the meadow He just smiled and took my hand. |
Love is that bridge |
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Marriage. |
A life of sharing, caring Mr. and Mrs. ___________ |
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With joyful hearts |
Together with their parents |
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Mr. and Mrs. ____________ |
We have experienced love. |
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We invite you to be with us |
Happily we two |
| Mr. and Mrs. ___________ have the honor of announcing the marriage of their daughter/son |
Mr. and Mrs. ___________ announce the marriage of their daughter/son |
| We invite you to be with us as we begin our new life together on. If you are unable to attend, |
The miracle of love is that love is given to us to give to one another. ______________ and ________________ invite you to share a day of happiness as they begin a life of love |
| Love fills a lifetime and a lifetime begins this hour when the two of us ________________ and ________________ begin a new life together. We invite you to share |
What began with our African ancestors, continues as two families become one. With joyfully hearts the parents of _______________ and _______________ invite you to witness the marriage of their children |
| ________ bought the ring and ________________ said yes! There’s going to be a wedding, and we hope you’ll be our guest. |
A romantic affair. Something special is in the air! Kindly save the date for a tropical marriage celebration uniting |
| It’s written in the stars that they were meant to be. So write on your calendar There’s going to be a wedding! |
Before BRIDE and GROOM can walk down the aisle |
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November 15, 2009 No Comments