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Tuesday, July 29, 2025

Make first impressions with invitations

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Whether you want to make a bold state­ment or be se­date and de­mure, in­vi­ta­tions are the way to make the first im­pres­sions about your nup­tials. The cook­ie-cut­ter in­vi­ta­tions of days gone by, now pale in com­par­i­son to the in­no­v­a­tive in­vi­ta­tions we see to­day.

Here are some trends:

Em­bell­ish­ments: make your in­vi­ta­tion stand out by adding tiny pearls, fab­ric flow­ers, pressed flow­ers, crys­tals, charms, glass or wood­en beads, seashells or any thing to give it a three-di­men­sion­al ef­fect. Em­bell­ish­ments can be added to the bor­der, one cor­ner of the in­vi­ta­tion or to the en­ve­lope alone.

Colour

Shades of pur­ple are the rage right now, as well as un­usu­al colours such as coral, wine reds, av­o­ca­do green and turquoise.

Be-rib­boned

If you think adding em­bell­ish­ments will make your in­vi­ta­tion look too bulky or too over­done, you can add a band of fab­ric rib­bon or even coloured raf­fia on­to en­velopes or on­to the in­vi­ta­tion it­self.

Mono­grams

Adding a mono­gram in a fan­cy script to your in­vi­ta­tion is a sure way to cre­ate a unique look. Typ­i­cal­ly, mono­grams start with the first let­ter of the bride's name, fol­lowed by the first let­ter of the groom's last name and then by the first let­ter of the groom's first name. For ex­am­ple, if Melanie is mar­ry­ing Chris Brown, their mono­gram would be "MBC"

Pat­terns ga­lore

For a dif­fer­ent look, try in­cor­po­rat­ing retro de­signs, such as pais­leys, pol­ka dots, plaids, vin­tage flo­ral mo­tifs or pin­stripes on­to your in­vi­ta­tion. You can even in­ter-mix them, for ex­am­ple a pin­stripe pat­tern with a flo­ral mo­tif, would add a con­tem­po­rary touch.

A dif­fer­ent for­mat?

If the cou­ple wants to be tru­ly orig­i­nal, I've heard of in­vi­ta­tions sewn on­to tex­tiles, in­vi­ta­tions on CD, cook­ie in­vi­ta­tions (yes, they are ed­i­ble!), scroll in­vi­ta­tions and in­vi­ta­tions in minia­ture glass bot­tles or in hand­made box­es.


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