Marriage planning and wedding. A blog on different aspects on weddings and wedding planning. Ideas on items such as wedding invitations, cake, photography, website, vow and gown is discussed. The blog also has information on Chinese wedding.
To add more meaning to your wedding invitation, it is a good idea to DIY your wedding invitation. But it does not mean you have to have a image and get it print out in full color.
The idea from the frist pet they raise together. Therefore, they design their wedding invitation with a lovely rabbit with heart glued on top of it. To give more three dimensional sense to the invitation.
Think of something which mean a lot to both of you so that your wedding invitation would be so unique and special to you and also to your guests.
When you making your decision on your wedding invitation, you should bear in mind the quantity of invitation cards you need and also your budget. Would you need postage the invitation to your friends & relatives? Size and weight would make you a lot different on postage fee.
For example, in US the size excess 6″ x 6″ would greatly increase your postage fee.
And also plan at least six months before your wedding if you wish to make something nice for your wedding invitation. Time makes thing perfect!
Instead of buying a place card stand, there are always alternatives for you to make the place card special - wedding butterfly place card is one of your options.
It is like spring blossom, butterflies dancing on the glass to create the most cheerful atmosphere. Of course wedding butterflies should not be your only choice, you can think of interesting creations to be your wedding icon. The bottom line is that it should match the theme of your wedding!
Instead of sending your guest an invitation card to invite them to be presented in your wedding day, there are still plenty of other funny and interesting ways to invite your guest.
The video wedding invitation of Laura and Kev is really interesting. Some may think that it is insane but I do not think so. It is really a special and good way to invite the guest to the wedding. Of course some people may not be accustomed to the idea of video wedding invitations. A invitation card may still be needed. But the card can also be very interesting, capturing some of the shots in the video will be one of the most excellent ways to create the card!
Linda and Kai have lots of friends who working in bank. Therefore, they have a sudden thought of having a special wedding invitation design - credit card design.
A visa card (just look like the real one) with your wedding day information printing on it and with the date in emboss print on the plastic card. So real and special, I guess most of the guests would keep the card as a souvenir of your wedding.
It is always a good idea to have your wedding theme based on your own personal situation. Because it would be just for your wedding. Of course, in this case for example, I think the couple might not have thought about if there will be any copyright infringement by using the Logo of VISA. But I think this are always ways to sort out this problem by tweaking the design!
I was talking about some wedding logo designs a few months ago and this time I would like to introduce some other design options.
Class, Contmporary and so on
From the website of TrueLove Logo, you can find many different design style of wedding logo. You can find classice, contemporary, monogram etc. It is good to see so many different styles so that they can match your wedding theme better.
How to Use the Logo
Besides the logo designs, you can also find ideas of using the logos. Some of the examples will be:
wedding invitations (of course)
shower invitations
magnets
stamps
wedding favors
stage backdrop for your reception
bottled water (if you are obsessed enough)
There are a lot more suggestions from the website of TrueLove logo and you may find it useful.
Again, I have no connection with this company. However, it will still be good for you to gather more ideas from this website if you would like to make a logo of your own for your wedding.
You may want to get some interesting and elegant materials to make your wedding invitation. In fact, these materials will probably be paper. You can of course buy blank paper to print your cards. However, you may also buy paper with patterns. You can create beautiful wedding invitations with this paper.
The Paper Studio
I would like to introduce The Paper Studio when paper is concerned. You can find beautiful paper from them. They also arrange class for making paper. You may even create your own paper to make your wedding invitation!
There are sometimes clients asking me that if there is discount when the quantity of order for the invitation is larger. In fact, this is a common misconception for clients in Hong Kong. This is mainly due to the practices of other wedding invitation vendors. They will tell the clients there will be discounts when they order more. And indeed the discounts they refer to is a lower unit price.
A Simple Law of Economics
In fact we should not treat the lower unit price a discount. As a matter of fact, it is only a simple law of economics. The cost of a business is the total cost of fixed cost and variable cost. When we are printing the wedding cards, there is a fixed cost for printing, and the variable cost is the material (most probably paper). As a result the unit price will be lower when a larger quantity is ordered.
I hope this can help couples to understand more about wedding invitation production!
You may want to put some graphics in your wedding website or wedding invitation. Unless you are a illustartor yourself, it is not easy to “draw” the images in your website or invitation.
Paid or free services
In this case I will suggest you to search for some wedding cliparts. Some website will charge you a small fee (something like USD29 per month) and you can download the cliparts without any limit.
You can also find some websites which offer free wedding cliparts. Of course the quality will not be as high as the cliparts from a paid site but it will be good enough if do not want to spend any extra on wedding cliparts.
Examples of wedding clipart websites
Below are some websites which provide these free resources:
Are you now sourcing for special wedding invitation for your wedding? It would be special and unique if you decide to make DIY wedding invitation cards. Instead of doing computer work with Photoshop on your computer, you can try to do some art work with your hands. Stick a “gem” on a card and stamp your names on it would be glamorous and impressive.
A special envelope made by Japanese Origami
If you can fold your own invitation envelope (link Japanese Origami), your guests will certainly be impressed.
Today I found an interesting wedding card on the web. It is a wedding card with the couple’s portrait on it. The portrait is in the style of a cartoon drawing.
In fact it is quite common to use a cartoon drawing to make a wedding card nowadays. What is interesting about this card is that it is very Chinese.
A “mix and match” approach of design
As a designer myself, I find this kind of “mix and match” design quite interesting. It is very Chinese because the main color theme is red. And on the other hand it is very modern, with the cartoon drawing on it.
When you are designing your wedding invitation, you can also take this approach to make a collage of different styles and elements.
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