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Wedding Invitations & Stationery Ideas
Virtual Planner
Instead of stuffing your invitations with costly enclosures, create a wedding Web site to inform your guests of logistics such as parking, accommodations, and directions.
Stylish Send-outs
Send an elegant message with couture invitations featuring French silk ribbons, handcrafted jeweled brooches, and heady essential oils (The Mea Collection by Clementine, clementineinvitations.com).
Special Delivery
Forget envelopes. Instead, mail your invitations in theme-revealing vessels, such as sand-filled glass bottles for beach affairs and Mylar bags for mod events.
Country Chic
Perch a name tag on an apple for a twist on the classic place card.
Map It Out
Include a personalized map that highlights your favorite spots in the wedding locale. Your stationer may be able to create one for less than a custom company charges.
Love Letters
Set out a selection of self-addressed and stamped postcards at your reception and ask guests to fill one out during the night. Have a family member collect them and mail a few to you each week.Sunny Days
Don't send your invitations out on a rainy day, especially if you plan to use a public mailbox. All that rain and dampness may damage the paper and cause the ink to run.Raw Materials
Think beyond paper. Consider having your invitations printed on squares of colored glass, ceramic tile or pretty fabric.Save the Save-the-Date
Unless you're marrying at a popular time like a holiday or in a faraway place, you don't have to send save-the-dates.Bottled Up
Roll your invites, place them in tiny, sand-filled bottles and send them in cylindrical cardboard mailers or in small, padded, wooden crates.
Stay Posted
Seal your invitations with a special stamp tailored to your stationery theme. Order an antique print for a vintage-inspired affair, for example, or create your own design at zazzle.com.
Scent the Dates
Spritz your invitations with a hint of your favorite fragrance.
Invitation Estimate
To cover last-minute additions to the guest list, order 10% more invites than you think you'll need - and 25% more envelopes, in case you or your calligrapher make a mistake in the addressing.
Sunny Days
Don't send your invitations out on a rainy day, especially if you plan to use a public mailbox. All that rain and dampness may damage the paper and cause the ink to run.
Spell Check
You receive your invitations from the printer and there is a typo! The smart solution is to get new invites—either blank ones you can print yourself or offset invites that can be delivered in a few days. It's better to send new ones a bit late than to send the old ones with a DIY correction.
