Category Archive

invitations

This is our massive archive of wedding invitation posts — but we’ve also got more specific archives like Invitation Porn orInvitation DIY tutorials, as well as archives dedicated to custom invitations, diy invitations, eco-friendly invitations, email invitations, invitation packages, AND our most popular archive: invitation wording.

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5 common mistakes when addressing & mailing wedding invitations

At one point, I spent about a year working on improvements to the code for postal address recognition (in a couple different countries; it’s customized a lot for each country, but the basic ideas and system are the same).  Based on that experience, here’s my advice to help your letters get where you want them to as quickly as possible…

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How to tell your family that your wedding will be adults-only

I want to send an email to our family members letting them know that the wedding will be adults only. While I still can’t control the way anybody interprets the message, doing it this way at least allows us to control the words that they see/hear. This was really difficult to write, but here’s what I’ve come up with…

21 wedding invitations to kick your imagination into high gear

There are, I believe, as many different creative paths you can take for your wedding invitations as there are weddings. What am I saying — there are undoubtedly MORE. I’ve gathered about 21 of my favorites from across the spectrum from our wedding invitations archives so you can see just a bit of what’s out there!

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5 tips when it comes to DIY wedding invitations – including the oldest trick in the book

DIYing your invitations is a great way to save money and it is much easier than you may think to get jaw-dropping, one-of-a-kind pieces. However you approach your invitations the following five tips will save you from a hand-made disaster and lift you into invitation folklore…

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DIY splatter paint Tasmanian wedding invitations

I’m an artist and I wanted the invitations to reflect our personalities as well as the casual party vibe we want to set for our New Year’s Eve wedding. I printed all the invitations on our standard home printer, and set to work spattering them (and myself) with watered down acrylics in the backyard.

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Jane Austen-themed wedding invitations with personalized library catalog RSVP cards

When it came time to design our wedding invitations I wanted to keep the literary, Jane Austen, vintage themes going (future librarian here). I found several awesome ideas for literary invitations and RSVP cards and combined them all together…