Creative Wedding Invitations - Do You Scrapbook?

Creative wedding invitations can be easy if you are already the type of person that combines pictures with a scrap booking hobby. Even if you don't scrap book you can get some great ideas for being creative with your invitations from what you already have. Almost everyone takes pictures these days and either makes a photo album in hard copy, or they keep their pictures in a file on their computer.

This is a goldmine of possibilities for you for your invitations. Search through your pictures and find some that include both you and your future spouse doing something uniquely you. Surely you have vacation photos, or pictures from your special outings together. Use the pictures to make something special.

When searching through the photos, find pictures that peak your interest as a fun and special time. These are what you are looking for. These bring out...

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Elegant Wedding Invitations - Choosing the Right Details

Elegant wedding invitations doesn't have to mean expensive. Just spending five dollars per invitation alone doesn't make them elegant, although chances are at that cost they will be. Many times simplicity in your invitations can lead to true elegance. If you subscribe to the old cliché "beauty is in the eye of the beholder", you will recognize that having elegant wedding invitations comes down to the details. By paying attention to detail, and using your own opinion as to the class and elegance, your guests will see what you see.

If you use each of the details that are required for your stationary to their full potential, it is easy to quickly see the beauty come to the surface. Each of the details can be used to accentuate the other to take your invitations from boring to dazzling. Something that seems boring at first will quickly take on a new look as you add each little part.

You can choose from many different colors available for your stationary as a start. Don't look past traditional white as an option, remember the additions you make will make these take on a different look. The paper itself is also made...

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Elegant Wedding Invitations Using a Monogram

For elegant wedding invitations you can transform an ordinary invitation into something that exudes class and formality simply by choosing to add a monogram to your stationary. A monogram is basically a design composed of one or more letters, usually the initials of a name are used to be an identifying mark. For example if your name is John William Smith, you would usually choose either the "S" by itself as the monogram, or you could choose to include the first and last initials, or all three initials. The most common way is either just one initial, or all three initials. For your wedding invitations you could also choose to use the last initial of the groom and the last initial of the bride, separated only by an ampersand (&).

The monogram has been used widely by monarchs, artists, and socialites to draw attention to the formality that is to be associated with the name, or monogram. This tells you right from the get go by the class of individuals that typically use it that this choice will be beautiful and high class. Of course any one can use this method to dress up any stationary they might want, it is not just exclusive to upper class individuals though it does give that feel, and it will certainly dress up your stationary as elegant wedding invitations.

One of the keys to dressing up the monogram even further to truly portray the elegant feel is choosing...

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Custom Wedding Invitations Made Easy With Unique Choices

Custom wedding invitations really come down to how far you want to go. Today's invitations afford you many options that you can easily add in order to make them your own unique stationary. You can add and change many different features of the invitations so that they truly become your own. The whole reason you want custom wedding invitations is so that your guests don't receive something they've seen before, maybe even many times before. It's actually quite simple now with the current technology available.

Specific fonts, sizes, borders, images, ribbons, pocket cards, colors, and most any little detail is available to make them different. What you can't find as an option, you can easily buy from your local craft store and add yourself once you get the invitations. Usually, most of these are at no additional cost, like fonts and colors (anything to do with the text). The extras like ribbons, pocket cards, and different styles of paper and packaging may cost a little extra.

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Handmade Wedding Invitations Text - What Should Be Included

Your handmade wedding invitations text is the most important part of the invitation. Of course you want to take in to account making them nice for presentation to your guests, but in all reality that is secondary to having the details of your wedding day correct for your guests. The primary function of the wedding invitation is to inform guests of the date, time, place and hosts of the wedding ceremony, and it will often also contain the location and time of the reception.

All of your guest's plans for the days leading up to your wedding will be based on the information you provide here. This includes their hotel reservations, car rentals, airplane flights to your town, and of course where they will need to go and at what time. It is of utmost importance to have the details of your handmade wedding invitations text correct. Proofread it several times, and ask others close to you to proofread it as well.

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Handmade Wedding Invitations Text - Using Formal Wording For Elegance

Handmade wedding invitations text in itself provides many options for how you can design it for the final result. First things first though, prior to making choices on how your invitations will look, you must pay attention to the wording you will put on the paper. In all reality providing the correct details to your guests is absolutely the most important part of sending wedding invitations out to your guests. Your guests will plan their entire trip around what you provide in your handmade wedding invitations text so you must have the details right for them.

Look through your notes and make sure you are taking the information from here instead of just relying on memory. I'm sure you know when your wedding date is, but it will also put you a little more at ease if you take the time to make an extra phone call to your venue and make sure that your details jive. These details are nothing to take for granted so don't. When you think you have everything right, proofread it again. Now have someone else proofread it for you. The reason for this is that you have a lot on your mind during your wedding planning process so you don't want to confuse yourself.

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Make Your Own Wedding Invitations With Minimal Effort

There are many ways to make your own wedding invitations and provide your guests with something uniquely you. Many brides choose to get blank wedding invitations to decorate and print themselves at home. Still other brides choose to get a do it yourself kit to save themselves some precious time during their wedding planning process. Both of these are great choices for individual brides, and will provide something special they can be proud of.

There is another option available to make your own wedding invitations that many brides don't even know about, and it can save even more time than a do it yourself kit while providing your guests with the special invitations you want. This method is considered "do it yourself" because you have many options available to you that you need to make decisions on. With this option we are going for the make your own wedding invitations "look", without the work. This can be a great choice for brides who have relatively little extra time to work on all the details of their wedding planning. This method can free up some of your time to devote to other areas of your planning.

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