Wedding Invitations

Affordable Wedding Invitations

The wedding invitations play their own, very important part in the whole planning of a wedding and since this event is special all things related to it should be or become special as well.

The popularity of the wedding invitations increased rapidly among the members of the English and French aristocracies while until the period of the middle ages, people from almost any social rank were too uneducated or poor to read and write so the invitations were verbalized. The high class society and royalty used this custom as another form of entertainment but by the beginning of the twentieth century, when education was made available even for the people from lower social ranks, the wedding invitations became a huge hit. If people were still to poor to buy and send the wedding invitations they had the cheap alternative of announcing this event in local or national newspapers.

The wedding invitations were now affordable and methods of printing such as thermography allowed the mass production of some unique and one-of-a-kind invitations, in a huge variety of color combinations, shapes, sizes or patterns.

Design became very important and the simple and white wedding invitations from the past with hand calligraphy were replaced by a multitude of outstanding invitation card designs. Now the invitation could be round, box-shaped, layered, scroll or fold out, etc.

The hand writing method is a bit expensive nowadays although it makes the invitations look classy and elegant but the cheap printing option, thermography, with its raised letter or pattern effect is definitely the best alternative available out there. And who says that a cheap and affordable wedding invitation couldn’t look elegant?

On the internet sites you can find some offers and wedding invitations samples at affordable prices but the online manufacturers will also give you the interesting option of personalizing your own invitations just to make them look more special and unique.

Design is important but don’t forget about the wording or how should you make an inviting by using a socially polite and proper language. The wording etiquette demands sharing only the strict information about the wedding ceremony and reception but it is also recommended that you share some other important details about this celebration you find necessary for you guests such as mentioning the fact that after ceremony there will be a party or reception or if the wedding has a theme and you would like for your guests to dress accordingly to that theme.

That strict information is about the location, the date and time of the wedding ceremony and reception, the address and some directional signs or a printed map if the location is not familiar, the names of the bride and the groom and the names of the wedding hosts.

In normal situations, the parents of the bride act as the wedding hosts but in these modern days, usually, the couple would like to pay for their own wedding or accept just a small financial contribution from their families.

The RSVP or the attendance response is very important for the final arrangements of the ceremony and reception and if only the non-attendance responses are expected the RSVP, written on the invitation card or on a separate one, can be replaced with the expression “Regrets only” and a phone number for contact.

The affordable invitations are those written on a single page with all the necessary information about the ceremony, reception and RSVP and mailed out in a single envelope. Since the theme wedding invitations matched with the theme of the wedding became so popular in the last decades, you can also select an envelope design similar with that for the invitation card.

The wedding invitation cards can also be sent in the classical double envelopes or you can select some scroll-like invitations, sent directly to your guests in special tubes. The postal services are cheaper although the express mail is way faster but you should always be careful with mailing out the invitation with minimum six weeks in advance, before the actual wedding day, especially if you are waiting for the attendance replies.

Before sealing them in their envelopes read again with fresh eyes the content or the information written on the wedding invitations to spot in time the possible spelling errors or the mistakes in using the wrong honorifics or addressing forms.