Wedding Invitation Strategies

Someone has rightly said, "Marriage is a door which looks out upon a beautiful view. As that door is opened and the horizon unfolds before you, know that nothing is sweeter than the warmth of one hand within another." With weddings being so important for a person, every one likes that he shares his happiness with others and hence, wedding invitations are of great importance. Wedding invitations are the first glance your guests will get of your wedding. Wedding invitations offer the ideal opportunity to set the style and attitude for your nuptials. Today people are trying out different ideas for wedding invitations and each one wants his or her wedding invitation to be unique and exclusive.

One of the best ideas for your wedding invitations is making your own wedding invitation at home. If your chief precedence is cost, regular invitations can be purchased online from many websites and can be delivered to you within one week. However, more and more brides and grooms are designing their own wedding invitations and making them at home. This will make your wedding invitation unique. With the effortless accessibility of home computers and printers, creating your own invitations is quite simple and you can make specially designed invitations according to your taste. Invitations can take their flash from items found in nature, like acorns, shells, or leaves with raffia bows as accents. Hand-made papers are best suited and they look very elegant. To add a special touch, you can include pressed flowers, poems, confetti, CD's, photos or ribbons to your invitation.

Once you have determined the theme and the tone for your exclusive wedding invitation card, you can go out and shop for the best hand made paper available near you. Heavy paper stock that is off white in color looks great on invitations. No matter how huge the event you plan to have for your nuptials, an elegant wedding invitation adds to the grandeur of the ceremony.

In a wedding invitation, the wording is of great importance. Usually use a script font for the heading and a traditional font may be used for writing the body. While writing the wording of the invitation, you should remember that you should use full names and not nick names. Do not use abbreviations for writing the dates, addresses and time of the wedding ceremony.

The wedding invitation wording can be in the following format. If the bride's family is the host, you can start with:

Mr. and Mrs....request the honor of your presence at the marriage of

Bride's name
to
Groom's name.

If both bride and groom's parents are hosts for the wedding, the wordings can be:

Mr. and Mrs. ...
and
Mr. and Mrs....

request the pleasure of your company at the marriage of their children

Bride's Name
and
Groom's Name

If the bride and the groom are the hosts for the marriage, they can write:

The honor of your presence is requested at the marriage of

Ms. Bride's Name
to
Mr. Groom's Name

Finally, use these guidelines to help you plan your wedding invitation strategy. Most of all, try not to get too stressed out and you will find that planning your wedding can be fun!.