The wedding invitation is the first herald, an element creating a festive mood, which informs the wedding guests of the beautiful things to come event. In the digital age, couples often have a question - what will be the perfect herald for our wedding - electronic invitations or traditional paper invitations ?

When to send?

• save the date cards – sent 3-12 months before the wedding; if guests live in foreign countries, informative cards should be sent as soon as possible;
• wedding invitations are sent or delivered 1-3 months before the wedding.

What information should be in the text of the invitation?

It is no longer the era when the invitation should meet certain standards to be guided by. The freer planned your wedding style, for example a bohemian barn wedding or a barefoot meadow wedding, the more relaxed, friendly and the invitation text is also more open. For a wedding, instead of a more formal ceremony or celebration, a traditional one will be more appropriate exact invitation text. However, in both cases, there are things that an invitation must have in order to serve as an informative source for your guests and they would feel as knowledgeable as possible about where to be, how to dress and what to bring.

The text of the invitation should contain:

• who sends,
• to whom,
• what's going on
• where happens,
• when and at what time,
• how to contact you,
• RSVP (from French please RSVP if you will come)

The invitation may optionally include:

• dress code,
• wishes for gifts and flowers (sometimes instead of flowers they are asked to bring something else, for example food for an animal shelter, wine bottles or books),
• about the presence of children at the wedding,
• accommodation options,
• road signs.

Digital or paper wedding invitations?

Decide in favor of elegant and aesthetically pleasing and tactile paper invitations or the very comfortable ones for digital invitations, you can, starting from both your feelings and the prevailing idea of what an invitation should be, directly to for your wedding, as well as for completely practical reasons:

• you can mix it up - send by post or hand over beautifully designed paper invitations directly to your friends, but before that, send electronic save the date cards, which will be especially relevant if some of the guests live abroad;
• paper wedding invitations are a beautiful gesture and the first newsletter about your wedding; they contain not only what, where, when information, but also provide the first an impression of the wedding concept, style, color range;
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• paper invitation is both a souvenir and a beautiful memory from your wedding;
• for those who like handicrafts and creating beauties from paper, making wedding invitations will be like a sweet treat; if not - cooperation with an artist, choosing colors and materials is one of the most beautiful parts of wedding planning stages;
• digital invitations will cost much less or nothing at all, unless you count the consumption electricity, time and internet to prepare them;
You can create
• digital invitations quickly in the versions offered online, where all you have to do is combine the selected colors, sizes of pictures and texts , – this can be achieved even at the last moment, and it does not require special artistic talents or skills;
• digital invitations are more environmentally friendly because they do not consume material resources.

More about digital wedding invitations here: DIGITAL WEDDING INVITATIONS – WHALE FOR YOUR CREATIVE SPARK

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Author of the article: IEVA KRASTIņA

Photo: ILZE OSE , MIKS SCHELS

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