Wedding invitations are very, very special, whether you have them designed or make them yourself or buy them ready-made.
However, it is true that they are generally made of the highest-quality paper and soon thrown away by 90% of your guests. This means that wedding invitations are rather eco-unfriendly.
What to do? Naturally we've got the solution (would we've asked if we didn't?!) Have your wedding invitation on the web, on your personal wedding website.
We know, we know many wedding guru's say it is 'not etiquette'. Here we beg to differ with all due respect: we've moved on to an age that saving the planet is the absolute etiquette. We have to find ways towards a personal eco-responsible lifestyle ... and web wedding invitations certainly qualify.
However, the old-style etiquetists do have a point: wedding ivitations is about niceties and MOST of all about style. Doing a bad job of these two is never nice. We totally agree. Getting a proper web graphic designer is the way to get a beautiful wedding invitation on your personal wedding website.
Professional graphic designers can really create wonderful virtual wedding invitation designs, with lovely text effects, wording, any visual texture and any designs you may have in mind.
The design is then loaded onto your wedding website ... an eco-friendly and stunning invitation.
This is not a cheapie option (it could be, if you do it yourself). Costing will depend on how complex a card you need. The more complex, the more time-consuming (you'll be paying for design time). We suggest
(1) Ask to see examples before requesting a quote Designers can e-mail you examples or may refer you to website examples.
(2) Get an all-inclusive quote Rather get a quote for the job than a quote of x amount per hour. This means you know what you will be paying for.
(3) Arrange to print a small number of wedding invitations for yourself and for for your nearest and dearest who are really going to treat your invitation as a keepsake. You'll probably be printing around 10-50, instead of 100-500 ... which means you'll still be doing your bit for the planet. Printing can be done by downloading your invitation on a memory stick and taking it to a print shop who does small runs. You'll normally have a huge range of papers, or ask your designer to assist you.
(4) Please also ask your graphic designer to visit our website (http://www.ourweddingpage.co.za/) and your personal wedding website with us to see what the set-up is. It simply makes sense and usually more elegant and visually satisfying when the theme and colour scheme of your website design ties in with your wedding invitation. Your graphic designer needs to know what is available.
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