Guide to Design A Wedding Invitation Card From Scratch

Congratulations if your wedding date has been announced. In this exciting wedding planning phase, you will need help finding the best way to design a wedding invitation card.

Wedding invitations are not just a medium to invite your guests to your wedding; they go beyond that. A well-written, well-designed wedding invitation sets the tone, conveys essential information, and reflects your style and wedding theme.

Here’s a complete guide on “How to design a wedding invitation card.” Read the entire blog to understand how every element plays a crucial role.

Step-by-Step Guide to Design Wedding Invites


1. Deciding on a theme: Your invitation card should match your wedding theme. If you have chosen a theme, stick to it while designing your invites. Whether your wedding theme is Bollywood, rustic, fairytale, or Rajasthani, ensure your invitation card design matches. 

2. Choosing a Graphic Designer: The best way to design a wedding invitation card is to hire an expert graphic designer. He will understand your wedding theme, tone, personal style and preferences and share some of the best samples for your wedding invitation based on these factors. 

However, you can also contact a printing company to print your cards. The printing company will show you some readymade card samples. You can finalise one, give them the wedding matter, proofread the content and get the cards printed. This process is simple but limits creativity, personal elements and your style.

3. Deciding on a Language: Before finalising the designs, decide on the language of your invitation cards. You should tell your designer beforehand whether the card will be in English, Hindi, Marathi, or any other language.  

4. Choose the Right Color and Fonts: There is no limit to creativity, whether you’re self-designing your wedding invitation or taking a graphic designer's help. You can work closely with him to choose the colours and fonts that complement the wedding theme and reflect your style.

5. Adding Personal Elements: The wedding is a special day, and many emotions are attached. You can add personal elements to the card to give a unique touch to your wedding invitations, like couple doodles/illustrations, wedding hashtags, or a wedding logo. This makes your wedding invitation cards look unique and personalised. 

6. Writing Card Matters: The next important step in designing a wedding invitation card is deciding the wording, such as the opening statement, date, place, venue, RSVP details, etc. These details are crucial, and hence, they should be error-free. Make sure every little detail is clear and concise before the copy goes for printing. Here are some examples of wedding invitation card matter in English.

7. Finalize the Layout: Once your designer shares the first sample of your wedding, make sure the layout is balanced, the colours and design align with the theme, the details are clear and correct, and there is ample negative space to make the card look uncluttered. 

8. Proofread Until Perfection: Before sending your cards for printing, read the card matter multiple times until no errors are present. Even a tiny error can create confusion or hurt someone’s sentiment, so ensuring everything is correct and precise is essential.

9. Choosing Envelopes: Wedding card envelopes are the first thing your guests will see, so make sure they’re worth it. The printing house mainly provides individual envelopes with every card that complements the card’s theme, colour, and font. However, if you want different, creative envelopes for your card, your designer can customise them. These envelopes will have the same color palette, theme, and font style to match the cards.

10. Finalise, Print, and Send: Once completely satisfied with the card, you can choose the paper texture you want your cards printed on: gloss, matte, textured, etc. Once you are done, you can send the cards for printing, write your guests' names on them, and invite them to be a part of your special day!

Conclusion

Wedding Invites can be as creative as you want. There is no limit to creativity and much scope to reflect your wedding theme, relationship, personal elements, and style. The traditional and most common process to design a wedding invitation card is to contact a Card Dealer in your city.

They have multiple samples in different styles, colours, themes and budgets. You get good wedding card options starting from as low as 5-10 rs per card. Once you like a design, give them the wedding card matter on paper, wait for the first sample to be printed, proofread it and give a green signal to print all cards.

This traditional process is easy but lacks creativity and personal touches. To add personal elements to your card, you have to design it from scratch, whether on your own or by an expert. However, regardless of your chosen process, ensure the card is clear, concise and pretty!

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