Today, the demands of customers at times surpasses the imagination of manufacturers. And if ten years ago no one doubted that inviting guests to a wedding was necessary with the help of postcards bought in the store, today this fact is a big question. After all, you can order original postcards from a designer or craftsman who will make a unique masterpiece in accordance with all your wishes.
However, there is an even bolder option. Create DIY wedding invitations. In this case, there will certainly not be a problem with the fact that something did not work out as requested. Indeed, with this approach, all the freedom of creativity is in the hands of the bride and groom, who can decorate invitations with their own photos and everything else, which is their personal “belongings” in the spiritual and material plane.
If you are original but lazy
Try this option. Get ready-made invitations in the store, and then decorate them with original details so that they become individual. Believe me, this variant of the approach is quite capable of captivating the imagination with a certain amount of imagination and soul invested. It’s not the store ones, but the wedding invitations that you get yourself. But here, of course, you will have to try so that the template base does not outweigh the extravagant accessories.
If you are eager to create 100% copyright invitations
This, of course, will require more time, but it also ensures that the invitations will be unique. Most likely, guests will leave them as a keepsake of your wedding and will even keep them for more than one year. It’s worth it to spend several hours creating postcards. Especially so pleasant and rich in creativity.
It’s not only designers who are called by vocation to take up making home-made invitations. Do not hesitate, it is available to everyone. The main thing is desire, time and patience. Otherwise, professional advice will help.
Since the main thing in invitations is uniqueness and originality, then indisputable templates for their manufacture simply should not exist. Copying other people's ideas is not worth it at all. But learning and borrowing the best is a must. DIY wedding invitations can be “composed” on the basis of samples of the same store cards or just from paintings, photographs or collages that impressed you.
DIY Invitations : Highlights
Evaluate your abilities and indicators of patience. Do not tackle very complex options for which you may not have enough strength. Everything ingenious is simple, so do not chase countless "bells and whistles".
Classics of the genre - invitation cards in an envelope
A good solution is a drop-down card with a designer cover and text inside. You can print the text on tracing paper and put it in the middle, and also decorate the inside with a picture or applique.
The most straightforward and fairly easy to implement embodiment of decoration is as follows. Cut a square or rectangle from texture paper with curly scissors, tighten it with lace with beads sewn in advance. At the edges you can stick roses or decorate with ribbons.
It is desirable that the color of the background and the decorative square differ in tone or even contrast. However, keep the entire postcard in a dim range. Wedding traditionally requires light colors. Although if you have a dress of completely unconventional color, then postcards can be created in a completely free style. Thank God, today we have already gone far from stereotypes.
The shape of the card does not have to be rectangular. It can be a heart shape, a triangle, a hexagon, an abstract figure - in general, what the soul will require.
Original scroll wedding invitations
This is also a perfectly feasible option for beginners in the hand-made business.
In this case, you have to figure out what to make a print from, but this is not a particular problem. There are familiar and simply responsive people working at the post office who may well share a piece of sealing wax. However, printing can also be replaced with a satin ribbon drawing on a scroll.
Pictures for decorating scrolls can be created independently in Photoshop using templates. You can process a joint photo of the newlyweds, “fitting” an interesting frame to it.
You can decorate the scroll with applique: he will only benefit from this. As a complement, sequins, ribbons and even fur are perfect.
Do not forget about the content
In postcards, text is no less important than design. It must also be original. Finding something on the Internet is hard. Therefore, consider writing the text yourself or ask for help from poets-relatives. Sincere personal words will never replace beautiful, but patterns.
Well, if something still doesn’t work out, don’t be upset anyway. Shopping cards will always come to the rescue. However, everything will be in order, the main thing is not to doubt the success - and your own wedding invitations will be appreciated by your guests.