How to make wedding invitations that would scream that you are planning a gorgeous and really fun party? Why are these small business cards so important, why do some brides cease to control themselves when choosing the right and suitable design? In this article we will tell you how to stop tormented in torment and make wedding invitations with your own hands.
Standard
The most popular do-it- yourself wedding invitations, those made in the simplest graphic editors. People in the printing industry do the same, processing frames, choosing a font and colors in professional programs. For those who know and know how, the creation of such invitations is not difficult.
Features:
- Anyone can do it. All that is needed is a computer, a fantasy and a color printer.
- It does not take a lot of time, the acquisition of glue or expensive markers is not required.
- You can do it in the simplest graphic editors. The most popular are Adobe Photoshop, GIMP, Movavi Photo Editor. Of course, to create a decent wedding invitation template, you will have to spend a little time studying computer programs.
Bonbonnieres: unusual, original, creative
In France, it is customary to give small cardboard boxes with sweets. They look both cute and elegant at the same time. Therefore, anyone can present bonbonnieres. The main feature of the boxes is that they can be made with your own hands, using only cardboard, a stencil and scissors.
Just imagine how the courier delivers to the future guest an unusual bonbonniere that looks like a small chest. If you pull the rope, it opens. Inside, a person will find a beautiful note, candy or flower. And all this charm will invite you to visit the most important celebration - your wedding.
The difficulty of creating:
- Firstly, you have to choose the best design.
- Secondly, it will be very difficult to make such boxes alone, if their number exceeds 20-30 pieces. On average, one simple bonbonniere takes 10-15 minutes. During this time, you can decorate it with a ribbon, add a note, glue sparkles.
- Thirdly, sending a box by mail will not work, since there are no guarantees that it will reach the addressee intact.
Simple postcard
Another way to create a wedding invitation with your own hands is to make a simple card, decorate it with lace or satin ribbon, add a beautiful inscription.
Send by courier or deliver in person - it's up to you.
How to do (instructions for 1 postcard):
- Take colored sheets of thick paper (a picture and a shade are chosen based on personal preferences), double-sided tape, tape in the tone of paper, a stationery knife. To make the card really beautiful, it is better to print the text using a printer.
- To make a wedding invitation with your own hands, you need to fold a sheet of paper so that it turns out a book. You can divide it conditionally into three flat parts to get a kind of envelope.
- We print out the inscription and glue it on a double-sided tape or glue inside the card.
- We make a ready-made wedding invitation with beautiful ribbons. And to make the card even more spectacular, it can be covered with brilliant spray paint, decorated with beads or scented with fragrant perfume.
Parchment Scrolls
Remember the time when a messenger brought his king rolled paper, fixed with a wax seal. Then such scrolls meant one thing - they sent something important. We offer to make an original wedding invitation using original paper, wax and printing. The main feature is an easy process and a minimum of costs.
To issue a wedding invitation, you need to purchase original and beautiful paper. You can take parchment or scrapbooking sheets, which differ in the original pattern and density.
Useful Tips:
- Wedding invitation template: prepare an A4 or A5 sheet, beautiful ink or marker, twine, wax and print.
- To speed up the manufacturing process, it is recommended to print the necessary words, date and place of the celebration on thin paper, which is subsequently glued to the main parchment.
- Do not take paper that is too thick, otherwise the scroll will look messy.
- Do not take sheets that are too thin, as they will show through the contents. It is necessary to preserve the sacrament of triumph.
- If you do not want to bother with wax, then you can make red circles from cardboard that are strung on twine during folding of the scroll.
And tasty and nice
Another original way to invite guests to a family’s birthday is to give them a chocolate wedding invitation. To make such a promise is not difficult, but at the same time costly.
Remove the chocolate from the packaging, leaving only the foil. Print a beautiful inscription on thick paper, and then gently wrap the tile with an invitation. To keep the new original packaging firmly and firmly, the ends can be neatly fixed with stationery glue in the form of a stick, or you can use small pieces of transparent or colored tape. No less interesting will be a wedding invitation with a photo of the bride and groom.
Logical riddle
If there are many intellectuals among your guests, then such a wedding invitation will be to their taste. Create an interesting postcard that you need to assemble from many parts. Such an invitation is a jigsaw puzzle, and they are not difficult to prepare.
Making wedding invitations will take you not so much time, because for this you just need to pick up a template that turns with the help of scissors into many small pieces. For greater convenience, the coveted letter can be printed. But it will be even more original if guests will have to go to the wedding by presenting the assembled invitation-puzzle.
On the Japanese motive
Of course, it will be difficult to find a wooden base for a real fan, especially for a large number of guests. But we suggest creating simpler wedding invitations. The text is written on the fan itself, either with ordinary ink, or markers, or with colored pens.
Take a beautiful thick paper, cut out three identical triangles. Put them together, make a small notch so that you can fix them with a tape or bead. The designer reminds such a wedding invitation, which can be disassembled and assembled.
Lovely bouquet
Such an invitation will definitely surprise your guests, because it is a miniature floral bouquet in which a small note with the names of the bride and groom, the date and place of the celebration will be hidden.
To make a message, you will need: openwork dense fabric, a beautiful satin ribbon, buds on short stems and green jewelry. Consider the rose example:
- Take a red flower, remove the thorns and leaves, and shorten the stem so that its length is not more than 10 centimeters.
- Cut a neat rectangle from lace fabric to wrap our mini-bouquet in it.
- Put the rose on a cloth, decorate the bouquet with green branches such as spruce branches, hypericum. Plants for decoration also need to be shortened to 10-12 centimeters.
- Wrap the bouquet, securing the lace fabric with a satin ribbon.
- Take a rectangular sheet of paper, write on it the place of celebration and the names of future spouses.
- Fold the invitation into a small tube, and then place it in a mini-bouquet, as carefully as possible.
Ready template
It is important to observe all the nuances in order to get not only a pretty, but also a readable wedding invitation. Text, image, font size - all this must be selected carefully, corresponding to the theme of the celebration.
We bring to your attention a number of useful tips that will tell you how to create a really interesting invitation to one of the main events in life:
- Do not use too large an image showing the bride and groom. Now such patterns are no longer popular and are considered the "last century".
- If you still decide to use the photo, then make its edges blurry so that the contours smoothly pass into the main canvas, where the text is applied.
- The color of the letters should not be too faded, especially if the main background is not light, but with a pattern. In the worst case scenario, guests will have to use a magnifying glass to make out a wedding venue.
- Do not write in ink or felt-tip pens by hand unless you have beautiful calligraphic handwriting.
- Do not spare money on choosing a solid and thick paper. Firstly, because on such sheets the text will look elegant and soundly. Secondly, this way you will definitely protect yourself from the fact that the invitation will be forgotten during delivery.
- Place the basic information in the center of a postcard or scroll, while all letters should be clearly distinguishable and readable. The main mistake of the bride and groom is that they do not always care about their guests, choosing a font that, in their opinion, is ideally suited to the theme of the celebration. But often such images are very difficult to understand, because in the Russian language many letters are similar to each other if they are written in capital letters. For example, "w" and "and", "g" and "l". This also applies to numbers.
Color spectrum
Follow the combination of colors to make the invitation look harmonious and complete. As a rule, lighter shades are used for the wedding (white, cream, purple, blue, peach). Fonts are applied in dark blue, black or brown ink. In this case, you need to pay attention to whether it is worth making the letters larger in size, highlight them in bold or italics. But if you are a real rebel and want to make your wedding invitations truly creative, then it is not forbidden to use absolutely any shades (red, blue, green). It all depends on individual preferences, because this is your holiday. But at the same time, remember that on a saturated red background, the black font will be barely distinguishable.
To summarize
Wedding invitation - a business card of the bride and groom, the face of the celebration, the mood of the main holiday of life. That is why the creation of low-quality postcards will mean that the guests will not be inspired by the idea of the event and will celebrate it without much enthusiasm. The wedding invitation should entice, not scare away, and force you to study the text for hours to find out the exact date and time of the celebration.
Recently, postcards in the style of minimalism are popular, where only beautiful paper, a nice font and a light pattern are used to create them. And, as already mentioned above, your invitation should leave a pleasant fragrant train, which can be achieved with the help of toilet water or essential oils.