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Wedding Invitation Design Etiquette
What to Include and When to Exclude

Wednesday, August 4th, 2010

Words, Etiquette and Reminders in Wedding Invitations

Now more than ever wedding rules are being bent and broken as modern brides make their way into the wedding arena. While this oftentimes makes for exciting and innovative wedding themes and styles, when it comes to wedding invitations there are a couple proper procedures and levels of etiquette that are recommended.

When it comes to wedding invitation designs and themes, the sky is the limit. But straying from the proper wedding invitation etiquette may end up embarrassing you or make your guests feel rather awkward.

To help us all feel as comfortable and excited as possible, I have come up with a short list of wedding invitation etiquette dos and don’ts:

Don’t mention specific gift ideas on the wedding invitation, this is only acceptable on a bridal shower invite.

Do direct wedding guests to your online blog, wedding website, or wedding registry to further gift information.

Don’t ask for specific his or her gifts, the wedding gifts are supposed to be for both of you. Again, the bridal shower is the place where you can gifts just for you.

Do use word of mouth or a personal wedding website if you are asking for cash gifts specifically.

Don’t mention on your invitation that you only want cash gifts

Do mention if it is a black tie event or children are not allowed.

Don’t get charged a premium for letterpress wedding invitations, look for discounts on affordable letterpress wedding invitation printing.

If you have any wedding invitation etiquette questions, please feel free to ask.

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Non-Traditional Wedding Invitation Designs
Destination, Bilingual and Foil Stamping

Wednesday, July 28th, 2010

Affordable Custom Letterpress Wedding Invitation Ideas

If you are like most brides, you have probably been planning your dream wedding for far longer than you might like to admit. You probably have everything figured out from potential destination wedding plans, catering, dresses, your bridesmaids outfits and the perfect moments all leading up to “I Do.” If you also want your letterpress wedding invitation designs to be unique and personalized, there are several different ways to do this.

Destination Weddings

Destination weddings are best announced with destination wedding invitations designs. There are many unique styles and ways to make custom letterpress destination wedding invitations. By incorporating an aspect of the venue, the destination location or a unique landmark, your destination wedding invitations can be as amazing as your wedding celebration.

Destination Wedding Invitation Design

Bilingual Wedding Invitations

Bilingual letterpress wedding invitation designs can be as beautiful as they are beneficial. If some of your wedding guests require a different language for their wedding invitations, then consider a bilingual letterpress wedding invitation design. This is a unique and personalized idea that is sure to impress your guests.

Bilingual Wedding Invitations

Foil Stamping

Foil stamping for letterpress wedding invitations is a growing trend among modern brides. With recent advances in foil stamping technologies, the costs have lowered considerable making foil stamping an elegant yet affordable option for letterpress wedding invitation designs.

Foil Stamping Letterpress Wedding Invitation Design

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Santa Rosa Wedding Invitations
Local Letterpress Wedding Invitations

Tuesday, July 27th, 2010

Bay Area Wedding Invitation Printers

As a family owned and operated Santa Rosa letterpress wedding invitation printing business, we especially love to serve our local community. While we do print for brides throughout the world, we enjoy working with couples from San Francisco to Santa Rosa and everywhere in between, to custom design your wedding invitations.

Santa Rosa Wedding Invitations <br/ > Local Letterpress Wedding Invitations Photoclick here to request free samples

To help serve our local Bay Area and Santa Rosa bridal community with their wedding invitation needs, we have teamed up with Google to offer you the most up to date information, services and specials on local letterpress wedding invitations. So if you live in Sebastopol, Rohnert Park, Petaluma, Calistoga, Santa Rosa, Napa or Sonoma County, you now have a friend in the wedding invitation business.

Local Santa Rosa Letterpress Wedding Invitation Printing

Check us out on the web, send us an email, give us a call or visit our friendly Santa Rosa location and we will be more than happy to help you with your wedding invitation needs.

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Wedding Invitation Wording Ideas
How to Word Your Wedding Invitation

Monday, July 26th, 2010

Wording your Wedding Invitation Designs

One of your first steps in choosing your wedding invitation design is deciding on how to word your wedding invitations. There are many different styles, themes and traditions when it comes to wording your wedding invitation, which is why it is so important for brides to understand their options when it comes to wedding invitation wording.

One the most important things to remember when wording your wedding invitation is to maintain the same style and format throughout your wedding invitation set. Whatever font, color scheme or design aesthetic your decide to use to word your wedding invitation, make sure to follow that same pattern throughout your wedding invitation set.

Rana 1 Letterpress Wedding Invitation Designsclick here to request free samples

When wording your wedding invitation, make sure to consider the venue, wedding theme and style. Depending on the level of formality, there are many different levels of conventional wedding invitation wording that might be best suited for your invitation set.

South Beach Letterpress Wedding Invitaiton Design

If you are planning a fun, non-traditional wedding celebration, this should be reflected in how you word your wedding invitation. Choose a whimsical text, use unconventional language and consider unique colors for your wording. Likewise, if your wedding ceremony is going to follow religious or ethnic customs, this should be communicated in the manner in which you word your wedding invitation.

One of the most frequent mistakes that brides (and careless printers) make is forgetting to maintain a consistent pronoun usage throughout the wedding invitation set. When developing the wording for your wedding invitation, make sure the ‘you’ ‘we’ ‘us’ and ‘them’ match in a grammatically correct manner.

One of the reasons it is so important to work with professionals when designing and wording your wedding invitations is they can help you through this sometimes confusing process. But remember, no matter what the conventions, this is your wedding invitation and should look, feel and be worded the way you want.

After custom ordering her wedding invitations from us, Lauren said:

“I absolutely love the invitations! They’re the perfect introduction to our elegant, rain forest/beach wedding.

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3 Secrets to Finding Letterpress Printers for Less
Affordable Letterpress Wedding Invitations

Sunday, July 25th, 2010

Affordable Letterpress Wedding Invitation Are HERE!

In these tough economic times the thing that is on every bride’s mind is finding ways to save money on their wedding plans. With everything from wedding planners to wedding favors, bride’s are becoming more savvy at finding sophisticated ways to cut their costs. To help you find the most affordable letterpress wedding invitations, I am going to share three little secrets to finding affordable letterpress wedding invitations.

Shop Shop Shop

While many brides may already be doing this (you got here right?) it is important to do some investigative comparison price shopping. Not every letterpress wedding invitation printer charges the same price for the same style of wedding invitation. Sometimes it helps to start taking notes about each site and make sure to indicate the standard prices that each vendor charges.

Discounts or Specials

Part of the shopping process should be looking for letterpress printers that offer specials on letterpress wedding invitations. Finding package deal, discounts or seasonal specials on letterpress wedding invitation designs can end up saving you hundreds of dollars.

Affordable Letterpress Wedding Invitation Special

RSVP Postcard

Instead of having a separate RSVP card and envelope, think about choosing an RSVP postcard. No matter if you are having your invitations printed with letterpress, digital or traditional offset, printing an RSVP postcard saves big because you don’t need added envelopes and additional postage.

RSVP postcard

Do you know of any other simple ways to save money and find affordable letterpress wedding invitations?

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Helping Indian Brides Save Money
On Letterpress Wedding Invitations

Saturday, July 24th, 2010

Affordable Indian Letterpress Wedding Invitation Cards

As many of you probably already know, Indian letterpress wedding invitation cards can be expensive. But that does not mean that Indian brides should sacrifice the wedding invitations of their dreams. The best part of my job here at Invitations by Ajalon is helping brides find the wedding card of that they simply cannot get married without, at price that their wallets are happy about.

Indian letterpress Wedding Invitation Card Design Sindhuclick here to request free samples

To do this, I have come up with two simple steps that any bride can follow that will allow you to have a magical letterpress wedding card without an extraordinary price.

Look online for Discounts

Some professional Indian letterpress wedding invitation printers offer affordable specials on Indian wedding card discounts online. Before you commit to a specific wedding card printer, make sure to ask if they have any discounts, specials or seasonal markdowns on their designs.

RSVP Postcards

When sending 200+ wedding invitations in the mail, postage can become an expensive addition to the whole wedding invitation suite. Ordering letterpress wedding RSVP postcards can greatly reduce the costs of not only postage, but added printing and envelopes for a traditional RSVP card.

Indian Letterpress Wedding Invitation Design RSVP card

After ordering her Indian wedding cards from us, Sindhu said:

“”The invitations came out AMAZING, a million times more beautiful than I ever have imagined them. The colors all turned out to be a perfect match and the gold foil is absolutely stunning. I am speechless.”

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Alternatives to Double Envelopes for Your Wedding Invitation

Friday, July 23rd, 2010

Beautiful New Envelope Ideas

Using double envelopes for your wedding invitations has been a very tradition way to assemble your wedding invitation and enclosures. While there are a million and one different styles, sizes, colors, and paper choices for the traditional wedding invitation envelopments, today I would like to show you some non-traditional ideas that brides are incorporating into letterpress wedding invitation sets.

Unique Envelope Wrap

Designed to give your wedding invitations an extra special appeal, using unconventional materials to wrap your letterpress wedding invitations into your envelopes is always sure to impress your guests.

Letterpress Wedding Invitation Envelope

Diamond Enclosure Fold

Using enclosures that have a diamond style fold instead of the traditional single flap displays a level of sophistication and charm that is unattainable by any other method.

Roco Letterpress Wedding Invitation Design Envelope

Elegant Envelope Box

If you have a smaller wedding party, most of your guests live in your local area or you just want to have the coolest wedding invitation enclosure, consider packing your letterpress wedding invitation set into a small but dignified box.

letterpress Wedding INvitation Design envelope

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The Perfect Wedding Invitation Design
Elegant, Affordable, and Custom

Thursday, July 22nd, 2010

Affordable Letterpress Wedding invitations and a Bit of DIY

When it comes to finding elegant, affordable, and customizable wedding invitations sometimes the search can seem endless. With so many different online wedding invitation printers, brides can be overwhelmed with all the options. You want something that is beautiful, wont break the bank but also has a little custom personality that is unique for your wedding. To help you on your affordable, elegant and custom wedding invitation search, I have compiled a list of three important reminders that should help you on your journey.

Nothing satisfies the desire for elegant wedding invitations quite like letterpress printing. Letterpress wedding invitations designs hold an understated aesthetic that is par excellence in the wedding invitation arena. The deep impressions and bold designs make letterpress wedding invitations a must have if you want elegant, beautiful or unique wedding invitations.

Indian Letterpress Wedding Invitation Card Design

Some brides steer away from letterpress printing because of the perceived added costs that they might incur. But it is very possible to find affordable letterpress wedding invitations by looking for specials or discounts from online printers. Make sure to ask the printers you are thinking of working with if they have any specials on letterpress wedding invitations before ordering, this could save you hundreds of dollars.

Affordable Letterpress Wedding invitation Special

If you are looking to add a little custom flavor to your letterpress wedding invitation design, consider doing a little post production DIY to your envelopes and add an envelope liner. This gives your wedding invitations an added feel of personalization and uniqueness that is hard to achieve any other way. It is not that hard or time consuming, and we even have a short instructional video that explains in a step by step process exactly how to cut and insert your envelope liners.

Rana 1 letterpress wedding invitation design with envelope liner

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International Letterpress Wedding Invitations
We Ship Wedding Invitations Overseas

Monday, July 19th, 2010

Wedding Invitations in Canada, Australia, New Zealand
and the United Kingdom

We love sending our letterpress wedding invitations around the world. We have worked with brides from Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom on developing their wedding invitation dreams into beautiful wedding invitation realities.

Letterpress Wedding Invitation Designs in Canada New Zealand United Kingdom and Australia

If you are a bride in Canada, Australia, New Zealand or the United Kingdom and want the unbeatable quality and aesthetic value of letterpress wedding invitations, do not feel constrained by the wedding invitation printers in your own country. With websites, UPS, Fedex and email, the beauty of letterpress wedding invitations is at your fingertips.

Letterpress Wedding Invitations in Canada England Australia New ZealandClick here to request free samples

While some brides from other countries may shy away from ordering their invitations from another country, finding specials on affordable letterpress wedding invitations from international printers can actually save you money overall. So if you live in Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia or New Zealand, please do not hesitate to contact us and we will show you just how much you can save by working with us.

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Unique Wedding Themes
Come with Unique Wedding Invitations

Saturday, July 10th, 2010

Themed Letterpress Wedding Invitations for Unique Couples

I was recently surfing around the online wedding invitation arena when I stumbled upon a really adorable story. A couple from Wales decided to take their wedding theme to the next level. Recreating their favorite movie (the movie they saw on their first date), Vivian and Tracey Williams dressed themselves in costumes and body paint so that they would resemble Fiona and Shrek from the Shrek movies.

Unique Wedding Theme with Unique Letterpress Wedding Invitations

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This is quite possibly one of the most unique wedding themes I have ever heard of. The bride’s father and mother dressed up as Lord Farquaad and the Fairy Godmother, while the maid of honor resembled Snow White. Just in time for Shrek 4 to arrive on the big screen, this wedding theme was one for the record books.

While wedding themes are becoming more popular at home and abroad, it is important to think about the letterpress wedding invitations that can properly herald the good news. Finding or creating an elegant, custom letterpress wedding invitation design that fits your unique wedding theme should not be a difficult task.

All you have to do is ask.

After ordering her custom letterpress wedding invitation design, Sindhu said:

“”The invitations came out AMAZING, a million times more beautiful than I ever have imagined them. The colors all turned out to be a perfect match and the gold foil is absolutely stunning. I am speechless.”

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