Your wedding invitation should be considered with much thought and above all it should reflect you, your style and your wedding day. Wedding invitations are no longer simply a functional and necessary way of inviting your guests to your wedding but are a work of art, that will be treasured by you and your guests for years to come.
It can, however, be quite overwhelming for a bride and groom to go about designing their wedding invitations and so I have suggested a few things below, to get you started. This way, when you go to buy your invitations or get a stationer, such as mini Moko to design them, you’ll have a clear idea in your mind’s eye of what you’d like.
Florella Black Invitation, Vintage Circus Black Invitation, Classic Monogram Invite
Developing a theme: The theme of your wedding invitations will help to inform the design. Often a theme will be determined by the type of wedding you are having such as a garden wedding or a beach wedding. You can easily see how these types of weddings could inform the design of you invitations.
It may be related to the season of the year that you are getting married in or a vintage styled wedding or based on a style of art or architecture such as art nouveau.
There are many ways of developing a theme but if you are really stuck for ideas you could talk this through with a wedding stationery designer to help you formulate a theme unique to you.
Secret Garden Green Invitation, Regency Cream Invitation, Autumn Yellow Invitation
Choosing Colours: A favourite way of choosing your wedding invitation colours is by incorporating the colour of your bridesmaid dresses. Or you could choose your bridesmaid dresses according to your wedding invitation colours!
Often simple objects such as beads, buttons, fabric, paper, ribbon or a image from a magazine will catch your eye and inspire you. You can take these to a stationery designer who’ll be happy to colour match them for you.
Here at mini Moko we offer a colour customisation service to make the process easier for you. Our colour charts have over 100 colours to choose from and are printed on two different cardstocks. You can purchase these online to help you colour match and get a good idea of what the colour you had in mind really looks like.
Also, with our existing wedding stationery collections, you can select a design you like and then, simply select colours from the chart that you would like for your wedding invitations to match your wedding day.
Autumn Orange Invitation, Vintage Circus Apricot, Ethnic Orange Invitation
Invitation Size: If you are having your invitations designed for you, it is important to consider the size and shape. Firstly, remember that you will be putting your invitations into envelopes and therefore the size of your invitations will be governed by what envelope sizes are available. There are a wide variety of envelope shapes and sizes and so this certainly shouldn’t restrict your design, however it is best to get this clear from the beginning so that you are not disappointed.
Another good tip is to keep your invitations under 5mm in thickness and 250g in weight or you’ll find your postage costs higher.
Having had your wedding invitations designed, it should be an easy process to have the rest of your wedding stationery, such as order of service, place cards, menus and thank you cards co-ordinated in their design to the theme of you invitations.
