Wedding Invitations

Custom Photo Wedding Invitations

On the internet sites, specialized in selling themed or photo custom wedding invitations and offering samples for viewing, you can also find some inexpensive invitations for all special occasions, sometimes at discounted prices; you can directly order them from the online manufacturers after selecting a design you find appealing or you can personalize them by adding a photo or a caricature of you and your beloved. You can be confident in your artistic skills and creativity and with a pair of scissors and an interesting paper material make those personalized photo wedding invitations yourself, especially if you have the necessary time and patience.




The wedding invitation text can be written by hand, as it had been all these past centuries, using an intricate calligraphy style or letter fonts; I should first warn you that this is quite an expensive method so the new printing technique, thermography, can easily replace it.

The main purpose of sending the wedding invitations was not only for bragging about your happiness but also to share this happiness with your friends and close relatives by inviting them to celebrate together such an important and unique day such as your wedding day.

The invitations had to contain important information such as the name of the couple who makes the inviting, the names of the wedding hosts, the location of the wedding ceremony and/or reception with some directional signs added or a printed map if that place is not familiar, the time and date and the RSVP.

If you have planned the wedding with months in advance you can consider sending a ‘save the date’ invitation card to your guests just to remind them that you need an attendance answer until a certain date and that  they should make the needed preparations for such an important event. Another option would be to send only the wedding invitations but in advance with minimum six weeks before the actual wedding day.

Thermography has the great advantage of being a cheap printing method that allowed the mass production of beautiful and unique wedding invitations because of its raised pattern or letter effect and is mainly used for the special themed design of the wedding invitations or the personalized custom photo invitations.

The themed wedding invitations are considered pretty popular and this is an elegant method to give your guests a hint about the selected theme of the wedding party.

The RSVP is usually added when the couple requests for an attendance reply but they can replace this abbreviation with the expression “Regrets only” if they find necessary only the non-attendance responses to make the final arrangements of the wedding; don’t forget to add a phone number for contact or you can write the RSVP on a separate card with a return address included.

The parents of the bride usually pay for the wedding so they have to act as the wedding hosts but in various situations the parents of the groom or some other close relatives of the bride can assume this role; in these modern days it doesn’t seem that strange for the bride and groom to pay for their own wedding and accept only a small financial contribution from their parents or families.

The invitations are mailed out in their double or simple envelopes but make sure, before sealing them, to search for any spelling mistakes or errors in using the correct addressing forms.

The wedding invitations have always been regarded as the best method of announcing a wedding day. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries the European aristocracies and the royal houses, especially the English and the French ones, have used these invitation cards to announce special events such as the wedding, sometimes celebrated with opulent dinner parties. The wedding invitations were used as just another form of entertainment for the wealthy because the people from lower social ranks couldn’t even afford buying the daily necessary food supplies and some didn’t have the necessary education to write and read.