discover the system to organize your wedding stationary correctly
Date: Friday February 29, 2008Posted in: Weddings
Of all the things you need to do, in preparation for your wedding, wedding stationery is something that must be planned ahead. After all, you need to let your guests know well in advance of your forthcoming big day.
Understanding how important your wedding invitations and accessories are is crucial. The invitation is the first contact you have with your guests letting them know of your big day. From your invitation, your guests will be able to establish the style and theme of your wedding. Wedding stationery is high on the list of wedding etiquette.
Personalized Stationery
Personalized stationery is a great start to making your wedding unique. It’s so flexible too. You can choose the wording you want, the text color and size and most importantly the typeface.
Complementing the tone of your wedding with your wedding stationery is easier than you might think. With so many styles to choose from, then personalizing the wording, you shouldn’t have a problem blending it in with the theme. An example of some styles: classic embossed religious contemporary floral layered
Selecting A Wedding Theme
Blending in your wedding stationery with your overall theme is very important. As an example, you might want to choose floral stationery accessories if you are holding a garden wedding.
Accessory items such as white doves, ribbons, rings, hearts etc. all help to blend your invitations in with the wedding theme. The color of your invitations is sometimes decided by the color of the bridesmaid dresses.
Stationery Items
There are a vast array of wedding stationery items on offer. With your wedding invitations being the most important, you can follow your invitations with up with stationery accessories:-
Wedding Invitations
Venue Programs
Announcements
Engagement Announcements & Invitations
Save-the-Date Cards
Rehearsal Dinner Invitations
Bridal Shower Invitations
Wedding Accessories (menu cards, thank you notes etc..)
Plan Ahead
Your first official message about your wedding is letting the guests know by invitations. Let’s look at the checklist below to help us plan ahead:-
1. Check, check and check again all the wording on your invitations. Then ask a friend to check, check, check too!
2. Once your venue, date and time of your wedding has been confirmed, you can then order your invitations. Expert wedding planners say to order these about three to six months before the day;
3. A guide to help you count the number of invitations to order, count one invitation per couple, family and single guest.
4. After calculating the number of invitations, add approximately 25 invitations to your order: 10-12 more for keepsakes, plus extras for the last-minute guests. Also, depending on how large your order is, add 25 to 50 additional envelopes in case of mistakes in addressing;
5. Expert planners agree that the wedding invitations need to be mailed out no later than six-weeks before the wedding date. It’s imperative to allow the guests plenty of time to respond;
6. Take one whole assembled invitation down to the post office to get it weighed and the correct postage assigned to it.
Summary
We’ve learnt that wedding stationery, especially the invitations are one of the most important aspects of your wedding. They set the trend rolling for your overall wedding theme. Letting your guests have their invitations well in advance by planning ahead.
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