Wedding Invitations

Luxurious Wedding Invitations

The wedding invitations are the best method of announcing a wedding day. For this modern and highly technological society you might think that this custom of sending wedding invitations is a bit too old-fashioned. On one hand, you are probably right but who says that old-fashion cannot be popular? The wedding invitations gained huge popularity after their introduction in the private circles of the French and English aristocracies since only the members of the high class society and royalty could afford spending money on such forms of entertainment and had the necessary education to write and read their content.

The luxurious wedding invitations were soon replaced by simple and white wedding invitation cards and back in the beginning of the twentieth century, if people were still too poor to buy and mail out the wedding invitations they had the cheap alternative of making the wedding announcement in a local or national newspaper.

The wedding invitations were mainly written by hand but after the invention of cheap methods of printing such as thermography, anyone could afford using the wedding invitations especially since they were massively produced. The mass production didn’t decrease the quality of the wedding invitations cards instead the invitations with luxurious designs were found anywhere in a wide variety of color combination possibilities, patterns, shapes and sizes.

The themed wedding became quite popular over the last decades so it is often recommended to match this theme with the design of the wedding invitations but for a classic wedding you can always choose the luxurious and elegant wedding invitations and if the wedding budget allows some extra expenses I suggest having them hand written. The intricate calligraphy can give a classic look to your selected wedding invitations, especially when the design is simple.

Another important thing about the wedding invitations is the wording used in addressing them to your invited guests. It might be simple to follow the basic formal wording tips or the wording etiquette but you can always use the simple method of being creative with words and expressing the inviting using a personal addressing form or language.

Basically there are two choices: to use the traditional, formal language or the informal wording, sometimes being funny and humorous or sometimes adding some favorite verses, quotes or poems.

Usually the necessary information about the wedding is about the wedding ceremony and reception location, the address with some directional signs and/or a printed map, the time and the date; the names of the bride and groom should always be mentioned but for the names of the wedding hosts, that is another story. In normal situations, the parents of the bride act as the wedding hosts because they have to pay for the wedding; sometimes the couple’s both families or only the groom’s parents can make a financial contribution to the planning of the wedding. Nowadays is it common for the bride and groom to pay for their own wedding and it should be their personal decision whether to mention the name of their parents on the wedding invitations or not.

The RSVP is an abbreviation written on the wedding invitations or on a separate card if the couple needs an attendance response to make the final arrangement for the wedding; this expression can be replaced with “Regrets only” only if the non-attendance responses are needed. The fact is that whenever you read this RSVP you must reply to it.

The online invitation manufacturers will give you the possibility of personalizing your one-of-a-kind wedding invitations but also to purchase them directly after viewing the multiple offers shown on the internet. If you search for some wedding invitations with a luxurious design you can be sure that the offers come in an overwhelming number. Ask a wedding planner or specialist for advice if you find it difficult to match the invitation with the chosen wedding theme or the simple method would be to decide in advance about what design you would like for your wedding invitations to have.

The suggestion would be to mail out the wedding invitations with minimum six weeks in advance, even ten or eight weeks before the actual planned wedding day. Usually the wedding invitations are sent in a double or single envelope even if you have separate cards to announce the wedding ceremony, the wedding reception and the RSVP.