Finding The Perfect Wedding Invitation
May 16th, 2010
This is the first post in a series on wedding invitations. I must confess, I LOVE paper! I am the person who saved every wedding invitation I ever received as well as the collateral from the actual wedding. When my husband and I began to plan our wedding, I made a special trip to our New Jersey storage unit, not to be confused with our New York storage unit (yes, we have storage units in New Jersey and New York – that’s life in the Big Apple!), to find my box of saved wedding invitations.
We got home and I neatly laid out each invitation along with the printed collateral from each wedding I’d attended so that he could begin to see all of our various options. Most women spend lots of time day dreaming about their engagement rings and wedding dresses; my day dreams, as weird as it may seem, were about my wedding stationery suite. From the time I was a little girl, I loved opening the heavy envelopes that arrived in our mailbox with our names in beautiful calligraphy on them announcing the marriage of this family friend or that relative.
Without a doubt, from the time I was very young, I knew that my wedding invitations would either be engraved or letterpressed. But, about 8 months before we started planning our wedding we received an invitation to our friend V’s wedding. Her invitations were absolutely stunning! Like nothing I’d ever seen before. My world was turned upside down as I grappled with what I’d always thought I wanted and with what I knew I was going to have to have.
There are soooo many wedding invitations to choose from. The task can be daunting if unlike me, you’ve never really focused on paper before. I truly believe that your wedding stationery, from your Save the Dates forward can set the tone for your wedding. To help simplify the wedding invitation process a bit, I sat down with two wedding invitation designers who agreed to share some of their insight on wedding invitation design. In the upcoming weeks, we’ll be talking to Jennifer Hill of JHill Design and Vaishali Shah the creative force behind the bespoke wedding invitation line Ananya.
Thanks for the shout out Kalyn! We were really pleased with our wedding invitations and have had so many complements. They have also been featured in a number of magazines and some wedding blogs. We are really glad that we went with Ananya’s bespoke service.
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