The wedding invitation is often the first time your guests will hear about the specifics of your wedding and it sets the tone for the kind of celebration you?ll be having. A wedding invitation is a first impression?a sloppy invite with typos, a cheap-looking font, or signs of a rushed job will indicate that the wedding might have that same sense of disorder to it. With this in mind, it?s important to ensure that your wedding invitations make the right impression and that they?re appropriate for the type of wedding you?re having. Here are a few tips to send you off on the right path.
Gather Inspiration for Your Wedding Invites
We recommend couples dive deep into the internet as a first step. Look at a bunch of different invitations and save the ones you like. You can always borrow separate elements from each of them to create your own, like the hand-drawn map of the woods the guests will walk through to reach the ceremony space, or pictures of the couple as kids. This invitation is your oyster, so get creative! Make a list of what you want in your invitation (besides information). Think about color schemes, fonts, glitter, and illustrations. You can always weed out the unrealistic stuff later. Go Paperless With an Electronic Invitation

If you’re inviting people from all over the country or world to your wedding, you may want to consider an electronic wedding invitation, also known as an evite, to save on postage and keep things more streamlined. Done right, these can...