A wedding invitation is far more than a piece of card or paper that officially gives you permission to attend the wedding ceremony and/or reception. Customised personalised wedding invitations offer an opportunity to present a visual portrayal of your unique love story. 

Whether you’re getting hitched in a traditional and formal manner, or are tying the knot in a more relaxed and informal affair, you’ll need to let your family and friends know where to go, if you want them to be in attendance. Personalised wedding invitations provide you with all of the style and design flexibility that you need to create a beautiful and bespoke invite to the wedding of the year.

Whilst you can buy ready made invitations for your wedding, choosing to design your own (with or without the help of a professional printing service) ensures that your wedding invitations have the all important wow factor. 

If you want to create stunning wedding invitations that guests will enthusiastically reply to, and treasure as a keepsake, it’s essential that you pull out all the stops and convey your personality through your personalised wedding invites and wedding logos.

Do you love the idea but are not sure how to do this? Keep reading…

Consider What’s Meaningful To You

Before you start looking at colour wheels and charts, and different grades of high quality paper, you need to focus on the basics. Think about what matters the most to you as a couple, and also as individuals. What do you love? What are you passionate about? What do you value in life? What’s your favourite book or movie?

Spend a romantic night together and create a list of prompts that inspire conversation. Explore a variety of topics and allow your imagination and creativity to work their magic. If you and/or your beloved are artistically minded consider visual elements that you can associate with your answers to the questions above. This could be a symbol, emblem or icon that represents your love, happiness, and relationship, which you can use to decorate and customise your personalised wedding invitations and other wedding stationery staples.

Think Out Of The Box

To make your personalised wedding invitations really stand out, it’s important that they convey your unique personality. Aside from the standard information that a wedding invitation needs to relay to your guest, the invite should also be a piece of art that can be openly displayed, rather than something that is just left on the pile of general household correspondence. 

To create a beautifully bespoke and personalised wedding invitation it’s a good idea to think out of the box. During the height of the wedding season, your wedding invitation may have to compete with the invites sent to your friends and acquaintances by other couples. To make your wedding invite the centre of attention, think of ways in which you can embellish your ideas with a stunning design that reflects your individual personalities and styles.

Pick a style – vintage, modern, traditional, floral, rustic or quirky – and run with it. Add extras like a custom wedding map to your personalised wedding invitation envelope, and an information card with details of local places where guests can stay overnight. 

Show Off Your Personalities

Personalised wedding invitations provide the perfect format for showing off your dazzling personalities. You have the freedom to design a wedding invitation that seamlessly blends with every aspect of your special day, or that completely contrasts with it. It is possible to flaunt your personality even if your dream wedding is traditional and formal. Your personalities can shine through the style and design of the personalised wedding invites, without the need for too much compromise.

Choose a wedding invitation design that you and your future spouse both like, and customise it with a photograph that captures the romance of your relationship. If you prefer, you can express this through carefully chosen words or elegant hand-painted illustrations.

Use Colours You Love

Wedding invitations don’t have to be muted in colour and conventional in style. It’s highly fashionable to embellish personalised wedding invitations with a pop of funky colour. When selecting the palette of colours for your wedding invitations, choose a primary tone and up to two accent shades that you absolutely love. The wedding colours that you feature on your wedding invitations can also be used to unify the décor at the ceremony and reception. 

Choose a subtle and traditional colour for the luxury personalised invitation and convey your personality by complementing it with metallic ink script or calligraphy, and a coloured liner inserted into the envelope. 

Add Some Decorative Details

To truly infuse your personality into your personalised wedding invitations it’s essential that you don’t scrimp on the decorative details. If you’re arty and creative, don’t be afraid to express your personality and originality through artwork or words. You can combine a traditional wording format with tone and language that is more personalised. You can also add your favourite romantic quotes or meaningful song lyrics to the personalised message that you send to family and friends along with the formal wedding invitations.

You can tailor the wording on your wedding invitations for a particular type of guest – formal and traditional for family and guests of an older generation – and quirky and fun for close friends. Play around with font styles and sizes to create an aesthetically pleasing and eye-catching personalised wedding invitation design.