All About Ordering Wedding Invitations

Even though invitation suppliers offer a large variety of types of cards, most future brides and grooms prefer to opt for the three standard ones: main invitation, response card and thank you card. The type of cards you will need is one of many aspects to consider while shopping for your wedding invitations. Here are six other important ones.

Look: It is preferable to match your wedding invitations with your wedding scheme. For a garden wedding, as an example, you can choose invitations with flowers and green writing. You can also match your invitations with your color scheme.

Size: To avoid extra postage costs, make sure you have standard size invitations. Keep in mind that envelopes that exceed 5 7/8'' by 9 5/8'' require extra postage.

Extra Invitations: Most invitation suppliers have different prices for orders of 25, 50, 75 and 100 cards. They have a special price for each additional 25 cards. Since the difference of cost between each quantity is usually only a few dollars, make sure you order more invitations than needed. The extra invitations will allow you to keep some as souvenirs, to put in your wedding album for example, and to use the others as backups for mistakes. Remember to send one invitation per household.

Proof: It is preferable to ask your supplier for a proof before printing your invitations. The proof will allow you to correct some last minute mistakes and even change some aspects of the invitation (drawing, style of text, text etc.).

Bilingual Invitations: For bilingual invitations, it is preferable to order cards that can open. You can then write the text in the language understood by most people in the inside right and the other text in the inside left of the card. For the response card, you can easily write both texts on the same card. As for the thank you cards, since they are usually written by hand, only the cover must be bilingual. You have three options: leave the cover blank, have your names printed or print "thank you" in both languages.

Delays: You should order your invitations 6 months before your wedding day and send them 2 months before your big event. Ask for the RSVP 30 days before your wedding day.

Keep one thing in mind; your wedding day invitations are the first impression your guests will have of your wedding. Make sure they are up to it. For more information, ask your invitation supplier.