Wedding Invitations

Often, the planning of a wedding can grow out of proportion, things get a bit agitating, we have a lot of nervous breakdowns, confusion and the time pressure crisis soon appears. It is the moment people tend to forget small but meaningful things like sending out the wedding invitations. You really don’t want to have a wedding party without guests just because you forgot about wedding invitations.

The tradition of sending wedding invitation card dates back several centuries ago, more exactly in the eighteen century, when English aristocracy had the custom of sending matrimonial cards to the queen, the king or some other members from the high society.

This custom was inherited by the new world and as time went by and modernization became it’s constant trend, wedding invitations also evolved from the common white invitation with beautiful hand writing calligraphy to colorful, elaborate, themed models.

For example if you choose to have an exotic themed wedding it is normal to match the wedding invitations to it.

They come in all different sizes, shapes, colors, forms, with a simple or a complex design pattern, with ribbons or flowers attached to them, wedding themed cards, and the list could go on. And since we are living in an era where ecology makes one of the world’s rules, we also have wedding cards made of ecological paper or recycled paper. They are either written by hand, though it can take a very long time if we are talking about hundreds of guests, printed or engraved. At the beginning of the twentieth century engraving was considered to be the best option for writing an invitation, since print could always be erased getting the words messy and dirtying the card with black ink. Because of the low costs, thermography is the most popular and used form of engraving.

True, the design of a wedding invitation is important, we all know looks do count, but let’s not forget about what we have to write on an invitation card.

There is a strong etiquette regarding the information printed on a wedding invitation, like information about the pair which invites you to their wedding, where this wedding is going to take place, at what time and some other details about it. If you are a traditionalist or you choose for your wedding the traditional ceremony style you should probably stick to the traditional etiquette of writing a wedding invitation. Also wording is another important aspect of the invitation card and is included in that general wedding invitation etiquette we talked about just earlier.

If you are a noncomformist and don’t like to play by the general rules you could write whatever you want on the invitation card; it is your wedding after all. Just don’t forget to mention the place where this event is going to take place, at what hour and some information about the future married couple, like…their name for example.