Make Your Own Wedding Invitations In Minutes!

 If your priority is a quick and beautiful invitation, you're in luck! Theres is a simple process to follow! Remember, invitations should go out about 6 to 8 weeks before your wedding date, typically.
There are some very standard envelope sizes you'll want to keep in mind, including:
A7
and
RSVP envelopes
Let's use these sizes for the sake of simplicity.
You can easily design a standard wedding invitation that will fit into an A7 envelope, send the design to a printing house (kinkos, for instance) and have the invitations printed for you, or you can buy the correct stationary at your local office supply store and print them at home. Always remember, you will get a better quality print job at a printer, and more often than not, you'll end up saving money-- ink is expensive!
Be sure to call the printer, first, to get the specs on your design. But, typically, the size of the paper that fits into the A7 and RSVP envelope is:
A7 Envelope paper/card size: 5x7
RSVP Envelope paper/card size: 3.5x5
Most printers have a selection of stationary on hand, and often times they can special order a specialty paper if you choose. Be sure to keep the shipping of specialty papers in mind, if you're on a schedule!
Call your printer and ask about bleed lines and crop marks. They may even be able to email you a template to work from!

What to include in your invitation and RSVP card:
On the invitation, include the essential information such as
Who is presenting the couple (Names of parents and couple)
Date of the Wedding
Location of the Wedding
Location of the Ceremony
Time of the Wedding
Time of the Ceremony
You can also consider including a Details card that covers things like attire, gift registry, special requests, etc.
Designing your invitation:
It's time to get creative! You've decided to make your own wedding invitations so let's make them awesome!
My favorite way to design anything is to choose two or three inspirational images or words to create from. Remind yourself of these words or concepts throughout all of your decision making and the design process.
Don't get too crazy with details. Simple is beautiful. Choose one or two fonts, one design element that speaks to your relationship such as a bird, heart, flower, or ornamental design that you can carry over to each piece.
The RSVP card is simple. Include this information on your RSVP card (or you may consider going green with a telephone or electronic RSVP request, which saves trees and money on postage too!):
How many guests accept/decline
Meal selection
RSVP telephone number
Printing:
Be sure to allow yourself plenty of time for a test print, second or third opinions, revisions, final printing, envelope stuffing, stamping, and so on!

Before you print your do it yourself wedding invitations have someone else look at your invitation and double check the spelling of each word (especially names), punctuation, and details. A DIY wedding invitation should be just as high quality as a professionally designed invite!

Chinese Wedding Invitations

You can begin to prepare for your Chinese wedding invitations as soon as you've decided on a date for the big day and reserved your restaurants.

Sometimes, Chinese hotels will provide you with blank invites for a particular percentage of the guests expected to take part in the wedding banquet. However, getting the wedding invitation itself printed is usually up to the couple.

If you aren't satisfied with the quality of the wedding invites in the wedding banquet packages or haven't been offered anything like that, you will need to look into sourcing the cards out yourself.

Two Months Prior to the Wedding…
Since it is customary that Chinese wedding invites be sent out at least 2-4 weeks before the wedding day, you should start selecting cards 8-10 weeks before the big day, if not earlier. This will allow sufficient time to get them printed and retract any errors if required. Your checklist of things to do should include:
Selection of the cards
Finding a good printing service
Preparing the invitation text
Proof-reading the prototype before the final printing

Colors for the Wedding Invitations
Traditionally, Chinese Wedding Invitations are red. However, Western influence has led to everything from magenta, purple, maroon, cream, and even pink being used on Chinese wedding invitations all the time. Avoid mourning colors like green, blue and black though. Silver and gold fonts are popular choices. However, choose the font color based on the kind of card you've chosen.

One-Fold, Center-Fold, or Two-Fold?
With regular single-fold invites, the English wording on the invitation will be printed from the left, while the Chinese wordings are on the right. For twice folded over cards, it's easier to distribute the vertical text over the 2 smaller panels. Wording on Chinese wedding invitations are vertically laid out and read from the right to the left.

Details to include on your Chinese wedding invitation, make sure you include the following details
• Bride and groom's names
• Bride and groom's orders of birth
• Parents' names
• Calendar dates (Gregorian and Chinese)
• Dinner venue address
• RSVP information
• Time of cocktail reception and dinner
• If you have a seating plan - the table number
Also, make sure to include the dinner venue's map and any other necessary information for reaching the site. Indicate dress code preferences, if any.

It is also useful to add in an RSVP response form with special meal preferences and number of attendees. When you collect the printed up wedding invites from your supplier, make sure you check the following:
? Envelope size
? Insert size
? Invitation text for errors
? Number of cards, envelopes, and inserts

Distributing Your Chinese Wedding Invites
Once the engagement is completed, the groom and bride's parents will distribute Wedding Invitation amongst guests, close relatives, and friends attending the wedding. For convenience purposes, it is acceptable to distribute the invitations through mail 4-6 weeks prior to the wedding day. If you follow the above outlined etiquette, your guests will indeed be very pleased to receive your beautiful wedding invitations.

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Tree Wedding Invitations

Getting married is one of the most exciting events in one's life. This is supposed to be done once only (though as of now, people can already be married a couple of times). Well, since this is one of the most exciting events in a person's life, it must to be made extraordinary. Of course, aside from the venue and the foods, the wedding invitations must also be extraordinary, which is why, you should consider making your invitations one-of-a-kind. Why don't you try tree wedding invitations?
Well, it might be your first time to hear of such invitations, and such, you are not sure if you will try it. However, to help you decide, listed here are great reasons to go for such them.

Letterpress monogram wedding invitations

This luxury wedding letterpress wedding invitations suite includes all the wedding stationary you will need to make your wedding a memorable one.           

laser cut wedding invitations

Many designs are available from simple heart patterns and swirls to delicate lace effect patterns. Some wedding invitations are complimented with hot foiling and embossing to create a sophisticated feel. Some wedding stationery printers may even create a bespoke design for you. For bespoke designs a new die will need to be created. You will need to include the cost of the die in your overall wedding stationery budget.
How it Works
Because die-cutting uses pressure to cut the shape only bolder designs can be cut. Fines lines will not come out cleanly. Lasers provide a more accurate tool and they do not use pressure, this means very intricate designs can be created such as "Lace" effect patterns.

Wedding Invitation Samples

Your wedding invitation sets the tone of your entire day by telling your guests what kind of celebration they are attending, formal, casual, destination or something else. When you are investing this much time, energy and money into an event, isn't it vital that you begin it right?

Start by looking at invitations as early as you can, even two to three months before you are mailing them. There are many choices that you have so finding something that really suites you as a couple can be time consuming. The internet will have the widest variety of choice available but, because computers vary so much, you will not be able to get the full feel of an invitation from the picture. Thus, ordering samples is crucial to making sure that the picture you see on the screen matches the invitation you hold in your hand and gives you exactly what you are looking for. Here are some suggestions to make this process easier:

1. Make a Wedding Event and Stationary List: The Wedding Invite is the most important one you will decide on but there are other events that will require stationary. The following are common ones you may need: a "Save the Date" card. Wedding Programs, place card settings if you are having a formal event, rehearsal dinner invites, also invitations for different kinds of parties ie, "showers", and don't forget "Thank You" cards. Making a list of all your needs and then ordering them together will save you considerable time down the road.

2. Best Search Engine Terms to Use: To begin your search, type one of these terms into Google or yahoo or the search engine of your choice: "wedding invitations", "printable wedding invitations", "wedding invitation samples", "unique wedding invitations", "wedding invitation kits". Look over all the offerings to get an idea of the style, design, color, and price you want. Make sure to keep a list of the websites that have your favorites on them, you may think you will remember but it is easy to forget or confuse one site with another and then have to backtrack using up valuable time.

3. Order A Variety of Samples: If you start early enough you can order a variety of different types of samples to help you make your decision. Try ordering different styles like pocket folders or layered kits in addition to the tried and true single panel ones. Also compare prices for printed and printable invitations. You may find that the simple act of printing your own wedding invites considerably cuts the cost for you.

4. Allow Enough Time: When making your decisions, always check with the website to make sure you have allowed enough time for the invitations to arrive when they are needed. Remember that when ordering online you have to understand the shipping and processing time for each website as they will be different. In order to avoid disappointment, make sure to read the shipping section before you order and call them directly if you have concerns or questions.

Damask Wedding Invitations Are a Must For Any Wedding

Why Damask Wedding Invitations Are a Must For Any Wedding An elegant wedding invitation option that many people are beginning to use is Damask wedding invitations. A Damask wedding invitation is not as you may think, the idea is not to design the main invitation as being Damask size, but to be presented in a special fold or Damask folder making the invitation unique and very intricate. There are a few different options of Damask wedding invitations to choose from.

The simplest form of Damask wedding invitations is the portable Damask wedding invitation. This type is easy to mail and create, it involves a Damask which has been created using a simple fold over design and an insert which is the main invitation. The outside of the Damask usually has a design or the names of the people being married. The insert for the Damask will then usually contain the main details for the rest of the wedding including the venues and times as well as where to rsvp.

 

 The main advantage of the simple one Damask design is that it is much more cost effective to make and far cheaper to ship because the extra weight of a complex Damask or insert is not required. If you are interested in Damask wedding invitations this is a good place to begin.

The trifold is another option for Damask wedding invitations. This one is best if you wanted to include a photo or a lot of information along with your invitation because when folded there are three Damasks that can include inserts. This is one of the most expensive and elaborate forms of Damask wedding invitations and can take extra time to actually stuff the inserts and mail out to people. Because of the extra weight of all of the paper it can usually cost more to ship a trifold wedding invitation. Using this form of invitation is really only needed should you have to include more information or a return card which will confirm a person is coming to the wedding. Although it can look good and be very fun and unique for a recipient to open each Damask to see what is inside, this option can be very expensive especially if you need to send out a lot of invitations.

For a good middle option there are Bi fold Damask Wedding invitations, which include a section for the invitation information and a second Damask for a return card or photograph to be included in the invitation. These can be made to have both the left and right sides as Damasks or have the Damasks on the same side. Usually these Damask wedding invitations can hold a good amount of information and inserts and keep shipping costs quite reasonable.

A Damask wedding invitation can create a unique flair for your personal wedding invitation. Quite often simple wedding invitations will fall flat and something as simple as having an invitation that creates interaction by allowing a recipient to open a Damask to see what inserts or surprises may lie inside, can really make your invitation stand out.