DIY Guide To The Perfect Wedding Invitations 

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Getting Married? The Ultimate DIY Guide To The Perfect Wedding Invitations 

There are 2.4 million weddings happening each year in the country. That is a lot of people attending weddings. Some of those weddings happen without a reception, but for the rest, it’s a big shuffle. 

Wedding invitations are key to getting people that you want to see the most at your wedding. It’s also a good strategy to send a message to those who you do not want to see. If you and your partner have a big circle of families and friends, you have to consider the time and money of sending invitations. 

If you go to the DIY wedding invitations route, you need to plan ahead. Let’s take a look at how to make your invitations stand out. 

Decide on Your Theme 

Ideally, you should start designing your invitations once you have the wedding theme chosen. Then, you can incorporate the style, textures, colors, and tone into your invitation. This can give guests an exciting hint at what they can expect at the wedding. 

Take Care with Colors 

Wedding colors often fall within the same range of whites, creams, matte blacks, blues, and golds. If your wedding theme falls within these colors, try to pair them with metallics on your cards. This helps your invitations stand out without looking out of place. 

DIY gold leafing is a great way to bring elegance to your cards. Carry these metallic highlights into the envelope and packaging designs, too. 

Elegant, Clean, and Professional 

Make sure that when designing your wedding invitations that they are easy to read. Each individual element may look beautiful on their own, but do they work together on paper? Utilize wedding invite templates from Adobe Spark to get a good idea of what works best. 

Avoid silver, yellow, and pastels on white backgrounds. Outline any text placed over photo backgrounds. Don’t write everything in scripted/handwritten fonts. 

Get Help Writing Your Invitation 

You don’t want to sound too casual, but you also don’t want to sound too robotic. Writing personalized invitations are a possible DIY option, but you’ll spend a lot of time writing them. Stick with short, sweet, and concise invitations with a good one-liner or short expression about your love. 

List the “Who? What? When? Where?” information in a clear and easy to read format. People are more likely to forget key pieces of information if it is shoved into a block at the bottom. 

Mailing Your DIY Wedding Invitations 

Don’t let all your effort into designing your DIY wedding invitations go to waste. Protect your hard work by personally seeing them sent off. Take them to your local post office to make sure none of them get lost. 

Also, you’ll want to ask the post office if they can hand count the envelopes. What they usually do is run them through a machine that spits them out into a pile. You don’t want to do that if your invitations or envelopes could get ruined. 

You’ll pay a surcharge for each postage, but it’s well worth the investment. You can bundle the envelope with a little gift box if you’re feeling really nice. As an added bonus, it’s hard to turn down an invitation when it comes to sweets.