Tuesday, 22 March 2011

Diary of a Greek Bride - Choosing your Invites


Your invitations are the first real hint to guests as to what kind of wedding you're planning to have. With this is mind, we wanted ours to reflect the fact that we are having an informal destination wedding so we started thinking about the design and how it will fit into our budget quite early on. 


Images from sarahanks.com

Image from weddingpaperdivas.com


There are literally hundreds of options to chose from -  you might want beautiful hand crafted invitations such as thesehttp://www.slatersparke.com  or elegant modern designs like these http://www.weddingpaperdivas.com/shop/wedding_invitations.htm#all=1&papers=2,5&. Or perhaps with a destination wedding in mind you might go for this designer  http://sarahanks.com/wed_chenghalliday.html . If you're feeling crafty, there's also the DIY option. Whatever your budget, there are so many wonderful creative ideas out there, you really are spoilt for choice!


Image from uniquityinvitations.com

Image from uniquityinvitations.com


We decided to go for a half-way-house option of getting our invitations professionally designed but getting them printed ourselves. We found Tammy from Uniquity Invitations http://www.uniquityinvitations.com/ to do this for us. You can choose a design and for $75 she will email you a digital file template set including editable save the date, invitation, RSVP cards, table numbers, place names etc… what a brilliant idea and great value!

For a little bit extra ($99) Tammy will create a custom template with your own unique design which is the option we went for. After briefing Tammy on what we wanted, a few days later she emailed over a design concept which we revised and developed together. We decided to ask a local printers to do the printing as we wanted a professional look and our printer just wasn't up to the job.  I am pleased to say how glad we are we made this decision because not only do we have unique and professional looking invitations to send but a beautiful memento of our wedding too!

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