Wedding Invitations

Always remember that first impressions is lasting impressions. With that in mind, your wedding invitations must be like a gourmet meal with the wedding invitations as a decadent mouth watering starter. After having a taste of that, the main course - your wedding - would definitely have all your guests in awe. The possibilities are endless from handmade wedding invitations to commercially printed wedding invitations.

Hints on planning for your wedding stationery:

Your style is as unique as your love for each other, choose your paper, colour, and look carefully for it has to complement your wedding. Always have in mind that you have to have matching envelopes and that you include postage fee in your stationary budget. Have your wording and layout ready before you go to the printers.

Your wedding stationary normally includes the following:

1. Your wedding invitations with matching envelope and a reply card, stamps if you are making use of mail services and a road map for your guests who are not familiar with the town. Remember to include the venue as well as the location of the church if they are not on the same location. It is always polite to make a list of B&B's or other overnight facilities for guests who travel a distance to be at your wedding. Write down the name, contact number and a costing estimate of the particular overnight facility for your guests to choose from. Remember to leave enough time for RSVP.

2. Menu's and table placements as well as table numbers if your venue does not supply them. Table placements look stylish when you place them on an Ezell & frame next to your sherry or cocktail table. Your guests can enjoy their drink while looking for their table number seat. Remember to ask for a designated person to escort your guests to their tables. Place a guest book on a table for your guests to write their blessings and best wishes for you and your loved one.

3. Church Programme's normally include the words of the songs that you would like to sing as well as the pastor or priest name that's delivering the sermon and a text or special poem or prayer that your guests can take with them as memorabilia. The names of your entourage, flower girls, maid of honour, master of ceremonies, the person that played an instrument or sang a solo etcetera... should be included in your programmes. You can also include your menu and table placements for your guests in book format that should save you some money. Choose your wording and format carefully though, for it can easily look cluttered and not stylish.

4. Thank you notes. Make a list of all your guests that has given you a wedding gift for it make's a good impression if you thank them for the specific gift that they have given you, or just thank them for being there on your special day. You might want to include a photo of your wedding day for your guests as a wedding favour or keepsake in a bookmark format. Double check for spelling and make sure that you pay for what you have asked for.

*There are a lot of new ideas for wedding invitations. Some of the ideas are: E-mail, Puzzle, scroll, CD or DVD, Message in a bottle or on a scented candle.