Ultimate Guide to Wedding Invitations
From when to send to what to put in it, different types and personalisation, here’s all your questions about wedding invitations answered.
What are wedding invitations for?
Wedding invitations are super-important because they allow you to send wedding guests all the information they need about your wedding celebration.
Acting as a taster of things to come whilst ensuring guests are fully informed of what to expect, your wedding invitation will ensure you have full attendance on the day and aren’t bombarded by confused friends and family in the days, weeks and months before your wedding.
Choose a beautiful design in keeping with your wedding theme and you’ll have a special invite that doubles as a keepsake. In years to come you’ll want to be able to look back on your wedding invite and still find it special.
Here at Design By Lyft you’ll find elegant luxury designs that will stand the test of time so you can be sure you’ll still adore your wedding invitation in years to come. See wedding invitations
When do you send wedding invitations?
As your wedding invitations contain all the information about your wedding, you want to ensure your wedding details get your guests’ full attention. For that reason, it’s best to send your wedding invitations about 3 months before your big day. If sent too early they’ll just be forgotten.
For earlier communication with guests use our wedding save the date cards to let loved ones know your wedding date and rough location as early as you choose.
By the time suppliers and finer details are all settled, 3 months will give you plenty of time to collect rsvps and firm up menu choices.
Personalised Wedding Invitations
Personalised wedding invitations enable you to create a custom design that’s unique, giving you truly memorable wedding invite that fully reflects your celebration.
In most cases, personalised wedding invitations can be customised in any way you choose so you can change the font, colour and more.
Here at Design By Lyft we offer a full range of personalisation options, including finishes so you can choose from: wax seals, velvet ribbons and belly bands.
What should the wedding invitation include?
The main wedding invitation should include yours and your partner’s name, possibly your parents too if they are hosting the celebration and you want super-formal wording.
You will also have information about the wedding:
date
time
ceremony location
dress code
reception location.
There is limited space on the actual invitation so lots of couples use guest information cards to share further information.
Guest Information Cards
In line with the range of locations so many contemporary weddings use, all of our designs have the option to add guest information cards. Guest information cards let you share details like the wedding menu and directions in an organised, neat way. They are particularly useful for destination, multi-day or multi-site weddings.
Wedding Invitation Types and Styles
Like all aspects of weddings, wedding invitations do have a certain look but the options for contemporary wedding invitation design are many.
The main wedding invitation styles are:
Pretty Floral Designs
Refined Minamalist Designs
Bold Maximalist Designs
Uncomplicated Modern Designs
Unique Vintage Designs
The main wedding invitation types are:
Simple flat wedding invitations: a single sheet wedding invite with the option to add a rsvp card and guest information cards to create a wedding invitation suite. These are the most affordable and popular type of wedding invitation.
Here at Design By Lyft all our wedding invitations come with free RSVPs. Our flat invitations are luxurious mounted desigbs made from fine-quality card so you get a thick, luxury, affordable wedding invite.
Folded wedding invitations: a classic folded design with the wedding invite and guest information inside. At Design By Lyft we don’t have any lose guest information cards. We uniquely assemble all our guest info cards together so none of them get lost and everything is neatly organised for your guests.
PocketFold wedding invitations: a contemporary block colour cover with the formal wedding invite inside and a pocket for all the guest information cards. The block colour jacket makes pocketfolds one of the most expensive types of wedding invitation. Vellum jackets are often used instead, these are a translucent jacket that can be used in place of the colour pocketfold jacket, giving you a cheaper option.
Boxed wedding invitations: with the invitation and guest information cards assembled in a box, these are the most expensive type of wedding invitation.
Z-Fold or Concertina wedding invitations: a single sheet folded into a concertina with all your wedding information printed on it.
Gate fold wedding invitations: two door-like flaps open to reveal the wedding invitation inside.
Laser-cut: a jacket with intricate cut-out reminiscent of lace.
Wallet or Loop wedding invitations: single cards held together by looped material or other device.
Cheque Book: Layered invite and guest information so it’s like a flick book
Wedding Invitation Costs
The type of wedding invitation you choose will greatly affect how much it costs. Prices start with flat invitations from £1 going all the way up to £5+ for pocketfold, concertina and boxed wedding invitations.
Prices listed on first sight are often only for the invite itself. Many wedding invitation companies charge per piece so once you start adding the rsvp and guest information cards the prices shoot up. We don’t do this, at Design By Lyft, the price you see is the price you pay.
Fast Delivery & Ordering
At Design By Lyft ordering is quick and easy with fast delivery within a couple of weeks.
We don’t take customisation details at the point if ordering so you don’t have zillons of questions to answer. Instead, we email you to collect your personalisation details so you can do it at your leisure.
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