Paper Products
By Lauren Parran - CTW Features | posted on December 06, 2011 at 8:44am
Set the write tone for your wedding celebration
Well before the wedding, your save-the-date and invitation give your guests the first impressions of your big day. Here’s how to set the write tone and carry it all the way through to your wedding-day stationery.
Save-the-Dates
Contrary to belief, the design of the save-the-dates does not need to mesh perfectly with invitations to come later, says Candice Dowling Coppola, owner and creative director of Jubilee Events in Cheshire, Conn. “Have fun with the save-the-dates, and then really develop the invitation over several months,” she says.
Coppola suggests who couples be sure to use a fun picture of themselves and not be afraid take some risks with them. Since these can be sent out about a year in advance of the wedding, there’s room for design change. “People shouldn’t feel like their stuck with the same design,” she adds.
Invites
Invitations typically go out around two months before the wedding. Let your wedding’s location and theme dictate the design, and carry it through to all your stationery. “You want your paper to ultimately be similar from invitation to wedding day,” says Coppola. This means have a similar design for invites, programs, menus and even table place cards – and the post-wedding thank-you cards, too. But don’t fall into the trap of making it predictable by using the exact same design for everything. Add minor but noticeable changes. “Be inspired by the paper of the invitation,” she says.
Don’t be afraid to step outside of the box with your invitations, too. Invitations can burst in color, be three-dimensional, have ribbon or fabric wraps, or even be hand sewn. “People can really let their imaginations go wild,” Coppola says.
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