Luxurious invitations for your Bat Mitzvah!

A Bat Mitzvah is one of the most important events in a young girl’s life, so be sure you are prepared for that awesome celebration with an amazing invitation!

Announcing your Bat Mitzvah in style is easily done with Invitations by Ajalon’s Bat Mitzvah designs. Choose from any of the designs in our invitation gallery, or we can create a custom design especially for you!

What is your Bat Mitzvah theme and what will your invitation be like?

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Written by Katie

Hint: Discounts, Comparison Shopping and a Little Extra Time

Every bride is forced to make difficult decisions when it comes to their weddings. What caterers to choose, where to have the celebration and which guests to invite. When it comes to planning the wedding of your dreams, there are plenty of ways to save money and still have an elegant celebration. With everything from letterpress wedding invitation designs to reception cocktails, you shouldn’t need to sacrifice quality because of your budget.

Here are 4 simple ways to reduce the cost of your wedding without giving up the elegance and charm you have been waiting for:

The Guest List

The easiest and most obvious place to start is the guest list. I can understand that on your big day you really want every aunt, cousin and friend that has ever known you to share in your celebration, but if you are operating on a tight budget, minimizing your guest list is the easiest way to drastically reduce overall wedding costs.

Letterpress Wedding Invitations

Not something people usually think about when they are discussing budget weddings, but if you do a little shopping around, you can have the letterpress wedding invitation designs of your dreams and they do not have to cost that much. Look for printers that offer package deals or specials on letterpress invitation cards. While everyone does not offer this service, the ones that do can end up saving you hundreds of dollars on your invitation cards.

Reception Entrees

A significant cost in every wedding celebration is the dinner after the ceremony. While feeding your guests is important, consider having delicious hor d’oevres or a buffet style meal in lieu of a full course meal. Oftentimes this requires fewer servers, the food is less expensive and can greatly reduce the cost of your wedding.

Details Details Details

Remember to comparison shop for everything that you are doing. Look online for deals and make sure to ask every vendor if they have any kind of seasonal discounts or if they are willing to negotiate their price. In this economy many businesses in the wedding industry are offering specials or are willing to lower their prices, all you have to do is ask.

Do you have any other ideas on how to reduce the costs of weddings while maintaining the level of beauty and elegance that you have wanted all your life?

Written by Nick

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Add-ins, Letterpress, and Fun Styles

For modern brides there are many options when it comes to wedding invitations. Everything is customizable. From letterpress wedding invitation sets to personalized add-ins and unique designs, I am here to make sure you are well versed when it comes to what is possible and what your choices can be.

Add-ins make the traditional wedding invitation set that much more amazing. The wedding invitation addition that compliments the set very well and usually is the most helpful for the guests is a beautiful map of the ceremony and celebration locations.

Lucky Bamboo Map & Directions Card

Instead of the traditional offset or flat digital printing, try having your wedding invitation set printed with letterpress. When you find package deals for letterpress wedding invitation designs it can be quite reasonable and the aesthetic is impossible to beat.

Devi Letterpress Wedding Invitation Design

Consider the added elegance of a stylish wedding invitation set folder. These additions greatly increase the quality and presentation of your wedding invitation set.

Lucky Bamboo Letterpress Wedding Invitation Design

Remember when thinking about your wedding invitation, make sure to ask for what you want. If you are working with professional designers and printers, I am quite certain your request will become their priority.

Written by Nick

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Nothing says love like personalized letterpress…

Spring is about to give way to summer and for many young people across the country that can only mean one thing, graduation time! Your children are growing into adults and have worked hard over the past several years to finally arrive at this point. Graduation from college, trade school or high school is a momentous event that deserves to be celebrated in the height of fashion.

There is no better way to announce your soon to be graduated child’s achievements than by inviting all your family and friends over for a celebration. And what better way to sound the celebratory tune than by heralding the news with a custom letterpress graduation invitation.

Available in many different fun and formal shapes and sizes, letterpress graduation announcements can be customized to fit your child’s educational interests, school colors or mascots and can even be foil stamped!

Letterpress graduation announcements are a growing trend that many families have begun to utilize to differentiate their event and their child’s achievements. Their aesthetic, design capabilities and bold impressions cannot be matched by any other printing method. So if you want to make a strong statement and celebrate your grad with passion, think about letterpress when ordering your invites.

After receiving his graduation invites in the mail, see what this graduate had to say:

“My new invitation cards – ROCK! My mom is very impressed! Thank you once again for such wonderful work!”
~ Patrick M.

Written by Nick

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Wedding invitation fonts are an important aspect of the overall wedding invitation design. Beyond the color, word choice and overall theme of your invitation, the font that you choose speaks volumes about your celebration and really sets the tone for your guests’ expectations.

Many online wedding invitation printers have only a couple stock font  samples to view or choose from which can be limiting at best and frustrating at worst. That is why I decided to show you some of my favorite wedding invitation font possibilities that are all totally amazing:

This font comes from the Avani invitation set and is shown letterpress printed with foil:

Another Indian wedding invitation card, this font is comes from the Devi collection:

A much simpler yet appealing font design comes from the Beginnings invitation set:

Displayed with a red foil, this font belongs to the Lalita 2 , Indian invitation card:

Part of a whimsical yet classic invitation design, this font style belongs to Chopin:

Another great contemporary font choice, this Cape Cod design holds a special elegance and ease:

If you have any questions about these fonts, letterpress wedding invitation designs or would just like to know more, please feel free to contact us! Click here to request free samples

Written by Nick

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Every year for Christmas I typically am gifted a word-of-the-day calendar that has a lot of interesting content. Of course, by the time I rip off each day’s word, I have already forgotten the previous day’s word and definition, but that is beside the point. Every once in a while I find a word that I really like, and I save it for future reference.

This morning I stumbled upon the word prothalamion, which I might add, is a mouthful just to sound out.

pro-tha-la-mi-on (n) : a song in celebration of a marriage.

Stemming from the 1596 poem written by Edmund Spenser entitled Prothalamion, today this word is reserved for the most special of circumstances and is used by only a small portion of the population.

So the next time you are celebrating the marriage of your son, daughter, friend or relative, you can impress the guests with your knowledge of classic wedding celebration words.

Do you know of any awesome words or phrases to describe a wedding ceremony or celebration?

Written by Nick

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What Exactly Does “Tying The Knot” Mean?

I was thinking about this question the other day when I was in a pensive mood. Where does this term originate from geographically, and what types of knots were being tied to finalize marriage? Who does the tying and what did it signify? Of course, as with most things, there are several different cultural meanings that may or may not be related.

After a couple searches on Google, I found that the first place this term was used was in ancient Rome. Brides from this era typically wore plain cotton gowns that would be held up by an intricate and ornately tied knot that was meant to both tease the groom and test his patience on the wedding night. Tying the knot around the wedding gown signified the final act a maiden would perform before her marriage.

A couple miles to the west in the Celtic region, tying newly married couples hands to each other with ribbon was seen as a completion of the wedding contract. During roughly the 15-18th centuries, this practice was known as “handfasting” and officially ended the nuptial process for most marriages in the region. Couples around the world sometimes still engage in this cultural tradition, though the “binding” legal nature of this practice no longer stands. Now we sign a piece of paper.

Where ever you are and no matter what your traditions are, weddings should be a celebration of mutual commitment and love.

Written by Nick

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