Wedding invitations

Invitations

To start with, you will need a completed guest list. The size of the guest
list will mainly depend on your budget. After you have estimated the number of
people you can afford to invite, each of you (and your family) can invite half
of that total to the wedding. You can make up a list of all your close friends
and family members who must positively be invited, and then make up another list
of all your other friends, associates, etc. If cutting is necessary, you can
start the hard decision with the second list of people.

Once you have a final guest list, you can make a decision on what invitation
components you would like, and what kind of wording you should use. With these
things in mind, you can go to a reputable stationer to order. Once you choose,
you should add about twenty-five or thirty extra to the total when ordering or
making your invitations and envelopes. The extras are for the unexpected,
last-minute guests, or possible mistakes that may be made when writing or
printing them up.



It's always a good idea to do things early so there will be less hassles as your
wedding day approaches. Sending your invitations out at least one or two months
before your wedding date will allow your friends and families ample time in
their busy schedules to keep that day marked on their calendars as especially
for you. This should also allow you enough time to receive responses from your
guest list and
coordinate your arrangements with the church, wedding hall, caterers, or
whomever. The good thing about getting early refusals is that you should still
have enough time to immediately send invitations to anyone you may have cut from
your initial list because of budgeting.

Therefore, make sure that if you are having your invitations printed and double
check the wording on all your invitations, allow the printers at least two or three
months before you wish to send them out. This is because printers take time to
fill your order (you may be last on their list!). Timeliness is also important
if you are creating your own invitation cards. Don't wait until the last minute
to make your own cards, envelopes, and then off to printing our invitation

For many people, traditional invitations are very important, but if you know
that your friends and family wouldn't mind a non-traditional invitation (perhaps
something more unique or personal) so long as they get something that gives them
the name, date, time and place, then by all means do as you wish. This is your
wedding after all!

Components

Traditional Invitations

Guest List
Wording
of Invitations

printing