Wedding stationery is the one item of your wedding that must be planned ahead before anything else. You want your guests to know of your forthcoming wedding well in advance.

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.

Custom-Stationery

It’s only natural that you want your wedding to be unique. By using custom stationery you can make it very unique to you. Custom stationery is quite flexible too as you can choose the type-face, the color and size of the text and use your own words.

No matter what theme you have set for your wedding, you will surely be able to customize your stationery to compliment the tone. Wedding invitations and accessories can be bought in various styles such as classic, contemporary, floral, embossed, layered and religious.

Choosing Your 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.

There are many accessory items available to help you tie your stationery in with the theme of your wedding. For example, ribbons, hearts, rings, white doves etc.. The same applies to the color of your invitations. This is normally decided upon by the color of your bridesmaids dresses.

Stationery Items

Do you know how many items of stationery there are? Without a doubt your invitations are the most important, but you can accompany the invitations with other stationery items such as:-

Wedding Invitations

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. Double-check that the wording in your invitation is correct. Ask a friend or family member to also look through the invitation for you;

2. Order your invitations as soon as your date, time and place have been confirmed. Three to six months before the ceremony is what most expert planners suggest;

3. When calculating the number of wedding invitations to place on order, it is suggested that you count one invitation per family, couple and single guests.

4. Once you have the number of invitations to order, you should then add on a further 25. This is to equate for keepsake invitations and for any last minute guests. The same goes for ordering extra envelopes - you may make an address mistake;

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. Make sure you have one completely assembled invitation weighed at the post office to determine the correct postage.

Let’s Re-cap

Don’t underestimate the importance of your wedding stationery. It sets the tone and style of your wedding and portrays the image you want to set. Wedding stationery should tie in with the overall theme of your wedding. Don’t forget to plan ahead.

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