Wedding Flowers

Your wedding invitation will be the first thing that your guests see from your wedding.  It may be displayed for weeks on their mantelpiece, and will probably be one of the things that they keep as a memento of sharing your special day, perhaps even ending up in a frame.   They should reflect your sense of style, personality, and theme of your wedding.

There are endless choices in designs for wedding invitations, from traditional and classic to bold and modern. Although professionally printed, personalized wedding stationery can often be expensive, with a bit of creativity it is easy to make your own wedding and bridal shower invitations.  As well as saving your wedding budget, creating your own wedding invitations can be a fun process to share with your fiancé or bridesmaids. Your design will be unique to you, and your guests will know that their wedding invitation was handmade by you, making it even more special.

Creating your own wedding invitations is a great idea.  You can get your creative juices flowing and come up with a design masterpiece.  But what about the words?

Most importantly, be natural when writing your own wedding invitations. Don’t use overly flowery language and don’t force it.  Remember that the main idea of your wedding invitations is to convey the most important information about your wedding to your guests.   Make a list of essential information to include, for example, the date, time and place of your wedding.   Browse through some invitation catalogues or site for examples of how this information is laid out.  The invitation wording tends to follow a set format, for example:

All numbers and dates are written in full, in a center aligned paragraph, with each piece of information on a separate line.

When creating your own wedding invitations, you can make your text look elegant and stylish by using different fonts.   Experiment with using various script fonts and effects such as bold and italic.  You can also download new fonts from several websites.  These fonts are usually downloaded in a zip file.  To be able to use them in a program such as Microsoft Word, you will need to save them to your computer and then unzip the file to the Fonts folder in the Windows area on your hard drive.  Most of the font websites will have specific and clear instructions about how to install and use the fonts, to help you if you are not familiar with the process.

When choosing different fonts, make sure that all text is readable, and does not look too messy on the page.  Your writing should be in keeping with your theme, so choose a traditional script style of font if you are having a very traditional wedding, or opt for a more modern style of text if you are choosing a contemporary theme of wedding.  Here is the sample above in formatted script:

Simply by changing the font type, the same wording looks very different:

One idea to create a stylish text layout when writing your own wedding invitations is to pick a quote that you like and put this on your invitations in an attractive large font.  This quote can replace or accompany an image.

If you are wondering how to word wedding shower invitations, you can follow much of the same rules as writing your own wedding invitations.   Outline the most important facts such as dates and times, and enhance it with your favourite font.

You can also find fonts made up of small graphics, called ‘dingbats’.  When using these fonts, each key will create a different picture instead of the letter.  There are several dingbat fonts already installed on most Windows computers, and are found at the bottom of the drop down list in Word.  These can be useful for embellishing your text.  For example, typing the letter A with the Wingdings font, creates the following graphic:

Experiment with different fonts, effects and dingbats to create the perfect look for your wedding invitations.

Websites:
www.fonts.com
www.free-fonts.com/wedding_fonts.html
www.weddingclipart.com