Wedding Invitations

African American Wedding Invitations

African people though they have been separated from their roots relocating in the American lands they have tried to carry the symbols of their individuality through whichever way possible, either by their way of getting dressed, their musical expressions or through their family events that crossed their lives. Traditional customs are the one and only things that keep you connected to your roots, to remind you all the time of who you are, where you come from, thus you will be able to affirm your identity in any circumstances occurred in your life.




The same thing happens when you want to start with the planning of your wedding event. Weddings are family celebrations that include in their displaying as many elements as possible that connect the people involved to their traditions. Planning to choose the design of your wedding invitations you discover with this occasion that there is a world of symbols that African people have inserted in their existence in their attempt to have their own identity in a world where people are more and more separated by their true original values giving them options to identify themselves with other borrowed cultures.

This is why the creation of the African American wedding invitations has to be made bearing in mind the thought of who you really are, as long as this person is the one to have the wedding day celebrated and the new life is meant to open the box of your basic traditions that will help you maintain the married life on its peaks of its own reality and not a borrowed one. Searching through the variety of African symbols you reach to Adinkra, these small symbols coming from West Africa, all of them describing features that can successfully be incorporated in the design of your African American wedding invitations.

These graphical Adinkra symbols stand for fertility, abundance, beauty, commitment, fortune, harmony, peace, heart, spirit, grace. African traditions in regard to the wedding celebrations include also other elements, some of them being good sources of inspiration in the creation of these specific wedding invitations. These elements are: wheat – is the symbol for fertility and the one for giving life; salt – is the symbol that stands for healing and preservation of the act of marriage; water – stands for purity, chasing away the bitterness; broom – is the symbol that is used also in the displaying of the wedding festivity when the couple jumps over this item in order to be healthy and have a good life.

Other symbols ready to be used in the decorative aspect of your wedding invitations, symbols that your own people are familiar with, are: spoon, pot – both of them standing for the food that is healthy, building at the same time a strong family; spear –signifies the protection granted for the home’s sanctity and shield – is the one to stand for pride and honor.

All these can be beautifully incorporated into the graphic of your wedding card, allowing your guests to know what your beliefs are towards the event that is meant to change your life as a single into a life of double. Inserting one of these symbols you are ensured to create an original and traditional note of your wedding event preserving the customs of your nation without the fear of mixing them among other “values” of the modern times of losing one’s identity.