Inexpensive Wedding Invitations

Posted in: cheap | May 29th 2010 | no comments

The wedding invitation increasingly gained popularity throughout the years, since their first introduction in the private social circles of the French and English aristocracies. The members from the high class society and the royal families had the custom of announcing important events such as a marriage through invitations delivered by a courier.

These people had the great advantage of receiving a proper education from early years so few of them knew how to write and read. The people from lower social ranks didn’t had the financial possibility of buying and sending wedding invitations so the invitations were mostly verbalized by spreading the word among family members and the private circle of friends.



By the beginning of the twentieth century the wedding invitations became a popular custom among people from all social ranks, especially when this tradition reached the shores of America. This is the brief history of the wedding invitations.

The simple and white wedding card with a hand written text was soon replaced by the colorful and multiple designed invitation cards, especially after the discovery of innovative printing techniques such as thermography.

Thermography creates a raised letter and pattern effect and even today is seen as the cheapest and fastest method of printing the invitations although the wedding invitations with an intricate calligraphy obtained only by hand writing the text is considered classy.

In truth, this method is very expensive so if you are looking for some inexpensive wedding invitations you might want to use thermography.

The designs of those invitations come in a large variety of different and outstanding shapes, color combinations, patterns or sizes and even though the offers are multiple you can be sure that you will find some inexpensive or cheap invitations, just perfect for your wedding budget.

The online manufacturers give you the possibility of personalizing the invitations by creating some unique and one of a kind invitation cards or you can directly purchase the wedding invitations after viewing the samples on the internet and selecting your favorite inexpensive design for wedding invitations.



You can also be sure that if you make them yourself by testing your artistic skills and patience, the wedding invitations will be as inexpensive at they can possibly be.

The custom of sending the wedding invitations has its long history but so does the wording used to express the inviting to the wedding. This is the reason why we often talk about the wording etiquette for the invitations which generally demands the use of a traditional and formal language. Its modern alternative is the use of an informal language, sometimes being humorous or funny and sometimes starting the invitations with a favorite quote, verse or poem or expressing in simple words the feeling of love.

The important thing is that the wedding invitation should contain the basic information about the wedding ceremony and reception or party: the names of the bride and groom, always mentioning the name of the bride first, the names of the wedding hosts if the wedding was paid by the bride or groom’s parents or both their families, the location of the ceremony and/or reception and the address, with a some details such as directional signs or a printed map, the time, date and the RSVP.

Should underline the fact that not all weddings are paid by the couples parents; sometimes they decide to pay for their own wedding or accept only a small financial contribution from their families so it should be their personal decision whether to include the names of the parents or not on the invitations.



The RSVP is an abbreviation usually written at the bottom of a wedding invitation card or on a separate one, only when the bride and groom expect for an attendance response, which might be very important for planning the final arrangements for the ceremony or reception. If only the non-attendance responses are expected, the RSVP is replaced by the expression “Regrets only” and an added phone number for contact.

Even if the wedding invitations are not that expensive that does not mean that the design has to be poorly done. As I’ve mentioned before, even a cheap printing technique such as thermography can create some beautiful and elegant wedding invitations; it all depends on your personal preferences.

Before sealing the invitations in their double or single envelopes make sure to read them again just to be sure there aren’t any spelling mistakes or wrong addressing forms or honorifics and mail them out with minimum six weeks before the actual wedding day if the attendance reply is important.