Hi, Welcome back to Planning Your Dream Wedding.
The area I wanted to cover today is your Wedding Stationery.
Your wedding invitation is the first formal note about your wedding and your guests will need to have their invite in plenty of time.
Arrange for your invitations the moment your date, time and place have been fixed. Three to six months before the service is what most professional planners advise.
After working out the number of invites add around 25 invitations to your order – 10 to 12 extra for mementos, plus extras for the last minute guests. Also, based on how big your order is, add 25 to 50 extra envelopes in case of errors in addressing.
A lot of well known wedding planners have the same opinion that you should prepare to post your invitations six weeks ahead of the wedding. This gives the guest enough time to act in response.
Take care that you have one fully assembled invitation weighed up at the post office to find out the exact postage.
Every bride wants her wedding to be exceptional. A good place to make a start is with custom wedding stationery. A big benefit with custom stationery is that:
- You can write your own wording
- Select the font, text size and color
- Choose either a simple design or something more elaborate.
Wedding invites and co-ordinating stationery items can be bought in a choice of styles such as contemporary, classic, floral, layered, embossed and religious.
You may decide to match the subject matter of your stationery to the tone of your weddding. For instance, if you are having a garden wedding then you may prefer to have a flower pattern print on your stationery items.
While your wedding invite is the centre piece of your required stationery, You would be suprised at how many wedding stationery items there are. You can find the following complimentary wedding stationery items to go with your wedding invites: -
• Wedding Day Invitations
• Wedding Evening Invitations
• Order of Service
• Announcements
• Save-the-Date Cards
• Rehearsal Dinner Invitations
• Bridal Shower Invitations
• Wedding Accompaniments such as menu cards, thank you notes, wedding favours etc.
There are many add -ons to assist you connect your stationery in with the theme of your wedding. For instance, rings, hearts, ribbons, white doves etc. The same stands for the color of your invites. You may decide on white or cream, traditionally the colour of your wedding dress or you may decide by the colour of your bridesmaids’ dresses.
Discuss your thoughts and ideas with your Wedding Stationery Printer. Also shop around. Some of the smaller printing businesses are more likely to work with you and adapt designs from your ideas and creations. They are also more likely to correspond either by email or phone more regularly to ensure that you get exactly what you set your heart on and at least advise you on what is possible.
One such Wedding Stationery Printer who has received rave reviews from his clients is
Geoff at http://www.preciseprinting.co.uk
The service he gives to his customers is invaluable and works closely with them via email and phone. He has been able to produce some beautiful artwork from ideas that his customers have had and made them reality. These were ideas that were turned down by other printers or priced excessively high.
I hope that the above information proves helpful and if you have any comments or questions do not hesitate to contact me either via this blog or email.
Back shortly.
Gwen Gould.
