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August 22, 2007

Examples of Themed Wedding Invitations




Having a themed wedding provides for a unique wedding experience, one that you, your friends and family are sure to never forget. A themed wedding can also offer you a plethora of choices for your decisions, starting with themed wedding invitations. Let’s look at a few examples of themed wedding invitations.

Classic/Traditional Wedding

A classic / traditional wedding can also be viewed as a themed wedding! If you are thinking about going with an older style, you should choose invitations that match that idea. Beautifully scripted fonts on foil paper or cursive fonts on plain white paper stock with a textured border are both good examples of a classically themed wedding. You may also choose from a pink or purple so you can offset the more traditional white.

Everything is blooming roses

Flowers are a quintessential part of any wedding, and many couples choose roses as their wedding flower. Roses, along with calla lilies and daisies are the three most popular flower choices for weddings today. This common choice doesn’t have to be ordinary by any means. You may want to also think about taking your lilies, roses and daisies and putting them on your wedding invitations. Yes, this may be a common theme, but by choosing these beautiful wedding invitations, embossed, embellished or embedded in a beautiful color of card stock paper, they can provide you with the opening to a beauty inspired wedding.

Autumn weddings

Having an autumn wedding offers plenty of choices for themed wedding invitations. With beautiful and rich colors exploding in the fall, you can choose some of these impressive tones to accent your invitations. Colors of gold, dark red, browns and olive greens can offset each other beautifully. Couple these bold colors with seasonal aspects like leaves, trees, pine cones and the great outdoors and you have a beautiful wedding invitation.

Winter weddings



Winter wedding themes offer the unique clean aspect of crisp white coupled with icy blues. Snow, ice and frost may also be beautiful accents to your winter themed wedding invitations.

Your wedding destination

If you are hosting your wedding at a vacation destination, do not be afraid to use the destination as a theme for your invitations. If you are travelling somewhere warm and sunny for your wedding, use sandy beaches, sunshine and oceanic scenes to accent your invitations. Put together invites that provide a sneak peek at the rolling ocean encroaching on a sandy beach with the palm trees blowing in the warm breeze. Invite your guests to have some fun in the sun while celebrating your special day.

Western themes



Are you a western couple? Cowboy and cowgirl meet and ride off in the dusty sunset on a pair of magnificent horses? The couple is fully equipped with cowboy boots and hats. Use this theme in your wedding invitations to invite your friends to a western inspired wedding. Accents such as cowboy boots, cowboy and cowgirl silhouettes, spurs, cowboy hats and more can provide an interesting embellishment for your wedding invitation theme. Horses, corrals and ropes can also be used to accent your western theme.

Love is in the air

Of course, many couples are going to choose love as the underlying theme of their wedding. It makes perfect sense; their love for each other is what makes this wedding possible. Love as a theme does not have to be boring. The first thing most people think of when they think “love” is hearts. Heart themed wedding invitations can range from intricate scripted hearts to chunky pink hearts and everything in between. Hearts with flower petals embossed on a high quality paper stock will give you an interesting love-inspired themed wedding invitation.

Another choice for love-inspired invitations is interlocked rings. While this is common, it is no more ordinary than you are. Use interlocking rings as an accent in a deep shade of purple or blue to offset your other colors. This is where you can really get creative.

Your wedding should be your fairy tale romance, so choose something interesting like horse drawn carriages or a surprising castle for the background of your invitations.

Clip art of couples and wedding parties is also a standard in the wedding invitation industry. However, you can mix this up and make it unique to your own wedding by using your own silhouettes as the background for your invitation.

Make your invitation your own

Regardless of the theme of your wedding, you can create a unique, individual wedding invitation that couples the theme of your wedding with your own personal style. Even if the overall theme of your wedding is love or romance, take your own personal ideas of what this means to you and find an invitation that speaks from the heart. Hearts, flowers, rings, silhouettes and more can all be used to embellish your day.

Choose textures and layers

Even ‘standard’ wedding invitations can be embellished and really ‘pop’ when you add some texture to the paper. You can also try layers of different textures and physical embellishments. Ribbons, rings and paper trimmings can add depth to any wedding invitation.



August 1, 2007

Beautiful Wedding Invitation Styles for a Summer Weddings




Your wonderful wedding memories begin well before the day you walk down the aisle. The entire planning process, including sending out those beautiful wedding invitations to your family and friends, is a time you will never forget. Your wedding invitation is important because it is one of the first accessories of your wedding that your guests get to see. Many people agree that your wedding invitations are the signature of your wedding, setting the tone of how your special day is going to be. Because of this, it is important to be sure that your wedding invitations are unique and special. For a summer wedding, it is important to start perusing the selections early since there are hundreds of options that you can choose from regarding your wedding invite.

It is important to remember that guests should receive your wedding invitations at least five or six weeks before your big day. It is crucial to get your invitations out early so that guests can make any necessary travel arrangements in order to attend. Therefore, you will need to have your wedding invitations decided upon, written, ordered, and picked up well in advance. This might very well mean that you are huddled over a computer in January, trying to decide on wedding invitations for your August wedding. When you are creating your wedding invitations, try not to let the current season drag you down, or influence you too much. There are plenty of great styles of wedding invitations for a summer wedding, no matter when you order them.

When you start to look at designs for your summer wedding invitations, there are a few elements that can influence your decision. Many brides like to coordinate the summer seasons colors and themes into their invitation. It is important to also try to incorporate your wedding’s colors, themes, and ideas into the invitation as well. The last component that should influence your wedding invitation decision is your own personal preference. Make sure you are extremely satisfied with your final selection of wedding invitations.

As stated above, it is important to coordinate the summer season’s themes and colors into your summer wedding invitation. There are many components that most people automatically associate with summer. You might use ideas such as sunlight or sunsets, or even fresh cut grass. You also might use elements such as beaches, a summertime boardwalk, or even trips and traveling, other popular summer time activities. When having a summer wedding, try to add slight touches of summer themes to your invitation. Trees that are full of leaves, bright sunlight, and clear water are all ideas that you might want to use in this type of wedding invitation. The entire theme of summer can be beautifully tied together in your wedding through your invitations.

When planning your summer wedding, you should also try to look at the colors of the summer season to see how you can incorporate those colors into your wedding invitations. There are many colors that remind people of the warm summer months. Vibrantly bright colors such as shades of red, blue, green, and yellow are all great colors for summer. In the early spring and summer months, people refer to pastels and lighter colors. As the summer wears on the colors have a tendency to get bolder and brighter. Depending on when your wedding takes place, you might want to consider using those colors and color schemes for your wedding invitation.

You will also want to incorporate the rest of your wedding themes, colors, and ideas into your invitation. Many people prefer to include the colors that they are using in their wedding ceremony and bridal party in their invitations. If you already have a color scheme picked out, then you want your summertime wedding invitations to follow that color scheme. If there are other design elements that you plan on including in your wedding, or specific styles you want, then you should try to include those in your wedding invitations as well, in attempts to have a cohesively designed summer wedding.

Try to remember that the final, and most important, part of choosing your wedding invitations, is to think about which wedding invitations will make you and your soon-to-be-spouse the happiest. If you have several options to choose from that all look great and fit well with your summer wedding theme and ideas, you might need to sit down together and choose which ones you both like the best. After all, the most important part of your wedding, no matter what month it is in, is that you are completely happy with the results.