Start shopping for you wedding stationery and wedding website!
Goodness! Where do we begin. There are so many incredible wedding stationery providers that provide many wonderful and unique products.
The invitation is an expression of you and your partner and will also reflect the style of wedding you are having: traditional, country chic, vintage, modern, alpine, beach... the theming options are endless!
In this digital ‘visual’ age, curating your ‘wedding moodboard’ has never been easier:
From pinning, liking, sharing, posting and snapping… you will curate a defined wedding style.
If you’re after a custom designed wedding invitation, when liaising with your wedding stationery provider, provide them with a screenshot of your moodboard or provide examples and explain what you like about the image, such as: particular colours, patterns, decorations, themes, etc. This will help your supplier enormously in coming up with a unique and complementary design.
Many wedding stationery designers provide ‘off the shelf’ template designs. These are fantastic for a quick turn around, slightly cheaper than bespoke and many offer custom colour. The work you did in identifying the style of wedding will make shopping for your wedding stationery easier by seeking designs based on the attributes you defined.
“Keep It Simple...Sweetheart” when it comes to the invitation content.
The wedding invitation should only contain:
From there, you’ll also need cards to inform guests about:
The style of wording / language on the wedding invitation will be dictated by the type of wedding you are having. However, regardless of whether you’re having a formal or casual celebration, there are a couple of etiquette rules to follow - which I'll allow The Spruce to explain. They recently posted on this, and I think it's a fabulous, comprehensive breakdown of how to word your invitation appropriately! They've thought of all possible scenario, especially regarding the delicate situation of priority order of hosts (ie. who's paying for the wedding).
On Monday, we looked at how to create your wedding guest list. Hopefully, you’ve made a start, it’s a big job, but it honestly saves a lot of time in the long run. Read the full article for tips and tricks!
And yesterday, we made decisions on the wedding stationery required for your big day.
Today, and although this might seem backwards, let’s look at your wedding stationery budget.
It’s reported by Bride Magazine’s Cost of Love Survey, that the average wedding costs $90K… Eeek!
I think it is much easier to work out what you should budget for wedding stationery once you know your actual numbers (including a couple extra to buffer for the “Reserve” guests - see Monday's post).
Here’s why...
Most (if not all) stationery supplier price wedding stationery items per unit. And most allow you to order online. So going shopping without knowing the numbers, does not give a true representation of what you should budget.
And let’s be honest, wedding stationery (as seen in yesterday post) is much more than just the wedding invitation.
In our previous posts, we provided a spreadsheet for your Guest List. On tab 3 we have listed all of the stationery items you may require. Now go ahead and place quantities required next to each… now for the fun bit - go shopping and compare providers prices.