Wedding Invitations

Traditionally, a wedding invitation was a letter or a card that was sent to a person, asking the recipient to attend a wedding ceremony. Today however, hours of planning and deliberation goes into designing wedding invitations. Wedding invites are typically mailed or distributed personally, 6 weeks before the wedding date. These cards are specially designed by wedding card designers, who use fancy and stylish methods and techniques to create these invites. Wedding cards today are a way of expressing the kind or type of wedding one can expect by using unique and rich fonts, ribbons, pictures of angels and techniques like thermography, engraving, letterpress printing and also sometimes blind embossing. It has become a symbol of status and fashion to pay huge sums of money in order to have handcrafted illuminated and drawn wedding invitations for the special day, which has also made the wedding invitation business a very lucrative one, with designers going to great lengths to offer various paper and cloth cards with satin, lace, and even gold embellishments. Wedding cards are generally mailed in double envelopes, with the inner one matching the color of the card and glued to fit in the outer envelope. The outer envelope is used for sealing and addressing. The cards can also include a separate reception card or folder, accommodation card, and a map or direction card. The reception card lists the addresses and time of any post-wedding events, like cocktail hour, dance or dinner. In the United States and many other countries, love stamps are issued each year specifically denominated to cover the invitation and reply. More lavish wedding invitations may also be accompanied by a box of chocolates, a gift box or a bottle of wine.