Wedding Invitations

Cheap Discount Wedding Invitations

The custom of sending the wedding invitations can be traced back several centuries ago when the wealthy, and I’m referring to the royal houses of Europe or the members of the high class society, especially the French and English aristocracies, used these invitations as a form of entertainment to announce their opulent weddings celebrated with pompous parties and dinners.




Things have changed until the twentieth century and the custom of sending the wedding invitations, exclusively practiced only by the wealthy, became increasingly popular among people from all social ranks and for example, in the US, if people were just too poor to buy and send the wedding invitation they had the cheap alternative of announcing the wedding day in a national or local newspaper.

In today’s society, the wedding invitations are as important as they were several centuries ago and even with all this incredible technological development that characterizes our era, the old-fashioned wedding invitations remain the popular method of making the invitation to an event so important such as a wedding.

You have multiple options from which to choose your unique and one-of-a-kind wedding invitations or at a cheap discount: purchase them directly from online manufacturers because on their internet sites you may find some interesting samples available for viewing and sale or you can test you patience and artistic skills and with a pair of scissors and some interesting paper materials and make them yourself.

Thermography is a cheap printing method invented at the beginning of the century which allowed the mass production of cheap and beautiful invitations at discounted prices, with unique designs and patters, in various color combinations or outstanding and inventive shapes and sizes. Thermography also replaced the expensive method of writing by hand the invitation text with an intricate calligraphy style.

According to the wedding etiquette and the wording etiquette, in the wedding invitation the couple should write the basic informational details about their wedding such as the name of the ceremony and reception location, the address and directional signs or a printed map if the place is not familiar, the name of the bride and groom, the time and date, the RSVP and the name of the wedding hosts.

In most cases, the wedding hosts are the bride’s parents because they have to pay for the wedding but in these modern times, the bride and groom can decide to pay for their own wedding and accept only a small financial contribution from their families; in this latter situation it will be their personal choice whether they will include the name of their families or not on the wedding invitation.

If the wedding was planned with months in advance you can consider of sending a cheap discounted “save the date” wedding card which acts as a reminder but you can also request an attendance response in advance, before the actual wedding day, by adding on the wedding invitations an RSVP or on a separate card or by replacing the RSVP with the “Regrets only” expression and a phone number for contact if you are expecting only for the non-attendance responses.

The RSVP and the information about the ceremony and reception can be written on separate cards but you can put all these cards in a single envelope or a classic double envelope and mail them to your guests with minimum eight or six weeks in advance, before the planned wedding day.

Sometimes, before sealing them in those envelopes, you must make sure that the written information is the correct one and with fresh eyes try to spot any wrong uses of honorifics or addressing forms or spelling errors or other small mistakes that will prove catastrophic, such as the wrong date or location of the wedding.

The themed weddings are as popular as they were back in the beginning of the century mostly because, even today, not all people have the necessary financial incomes that will allow them to plan their wedding day in exotic locations of the world so they have to create the same exotic atmosphere at their own home. They can use the themed wedding invitations to give a hint about the selected theme of the wedding or the couple can make a suggestion about the wedding outfit although it is impolite to tell your guests what to wear.