It is always lovely to include a romantic poem on your invitations to hightlight your love for one another.  Here are a couple that we use all the time, when we are making invitations for our customers.

 ’ Together we have walked hand in hand, heart to heart we have shared with each other, one heart, one dream, one love and with love on our side we should never part.’  If space is an issue with your invitation it also sounds lovely if you finish it after ‘one love’

or

‘This day I will marry my best friend, the one I laugh with, live for, and love.’

Hope this helps

Dress codes can be tricky as there are many different interpretations of what they mean.  Many of our wedding invitations have the dress code “Semi Formal” which is usually taken to mean, that the women wear a lovely dress or skirt, not full length, and the men wear a suit and tie. 

Many people do not know this however. To combat this confusion we have been doing a lot of invitations lately that have a more funky dress code option, which we think spells out the dress requirements more clearly and sounds great. 

We have used the following and all our brides have loved it.  How about,

SHARP SUITS AND FABULOUS FROCKS or SNAPPY SUITS AND DREAMY DRESSES

Just a thought.

Hope this helps

Lynn

If you are having a wishing well at your wedding, many brides include a wishing well card with their invitation, to let their guests know that they can give a gift of money.  Something Fabulous has  pre printed wishing well cards available on line with a lovely verse that can be easily slotted in with your invitations. Follow this link  http://www.somethingfabulous.com.au/categories.asp?cID=71 

We have also found a verse that you might like to use if you want to let your guests know that if they prefer to purchase a gift it is fine as well.

If you were thinking of giving a gift to help us on our way
A gift of cash towards our new life would really make our day
However, if you prefer to purchase a gift
feel free to surprise us in your own way

Hope this helps

Lynn

When checking your printed details for your invitations make sure that you get another pair of eyes (or maybe 2 or three) to read and check your spelling and grammar.  Sometimes you can get too close to your own work and cannot see your errors. A fresh pair of eyes always helps.

Also make sure that you check all venue address details and spelling to make sure that your guests find you on the day.

Hope this Helps

Lynn

Invitation paper is expensive so make sure that before you print your wording onto your decorative paper that you do a test on a plain A4 white sheet first.  This way you can check that you have your margins correct for cutting. 

Also check your wedding details, spelling and grammer.  Although you can do this on screen, it always amazes me how many errors you still pick up on the printed page.

Hope this helps

Regards

Lynn

Making your own invitations is heaps of fun but don’t leave it to the last minute or try to do it all in one sitting.  After you have made your template, make a list of all the tasks that you have to do to bring your design together en masse.  Make this list in order, from start of invitation making process to finishing touches. Your list might look like this, cut backing paperlayer, cut paper embellishment, cut ribbon, thread buckle, glue paper embellishment to backing paper etc etc.

Do one job at a time, over a period of days or even weeks.  This way you can make sure that everthing is ready to put together and you will not get too tired or stressed.  Remember the old riddle?

How do you eat an Elephant?  One bite at a time!!!

Have Fun!!

Lynn

The biggest part of making your own invitations is the repetitive cutting of paper or embellishments. I you are individually measuring each page or item for cutting, it is easy to get tired or lose concentration and make a mistake.

An easy way around this is to make a separate paper or card template for a particular repetitive cut, that way you only have to correctly measure once.  You can use the mark on the template to measure and cut your paper or ribbon each time. 

Happy Times!

Making your own invitations? Here is a tip from the experts.

When you make your prototype, pop it in your chosen envelope and post it to yourself.  This way you can see how it stands up the the rigours of the postal system.  This is particularly important if you are using embellishments made of a breakable material.

We heard of one bride, who used a clay shell for her beach theme invitations.  Unfortunately, these disintegrated in the mail and most of the guests received sand in the bottom of their envelope.  It still fit with the theme, but was not the look she was after!

Hope this helps.

Happy invitation making!

Lynn

I just had a customer in the showroom here at Something Fabulous who has a Norwegian son in law to be.  She informed me that it is an old Norwegian tradition for the bride to make her invitations by hand to invoke good luck and good attendance at the wedding.

I wonder if it is OK the get the groom to do the glueing!!

Just an interesting tidbit!

Lynn