When future brides and grooms think of "wedding stationery", they often think of "invitations" and then that's it. Think again! The visual identity created for your wedding announcement can also be used for many other items of stationery: save the date, RSVP cards, escort cards... Stationery also has a role to play in the atmosphere you wish to create for your event. Here are some tips from Sea, Bride & Sun to help you make sense of your wedding stationery choices.
The invitation, an essential piece of wedding stationery
The invitation is one of the essential elements of your high-end wedding. It sets the tone for the whole event. It allows the wedding guests to understand the atmosphere that awaits them. In order to design your wedding announcement, it is important to have a global vision of what you want your wedding to be like and the atmosphere you want for this day: a high-end wedding in Provence, a chic and romantic wedding in Majorca, a luxury wedding in Portugal...
Your invitation should include the information that guests will need: the date of the wedding, the times and places of the various events (ceremony, cocktail party, reception), but also the date by which you expect confirmation of their presence.
The most important thing when designing your wedding stationery is to stick to your personality and your values: choose top-of-the-range paper, modern and refined writing, an elegant style...
The boxes that accompany the announcement
To accompany your invitation, you can also provide secondary cards to specify particular invitations...
To avoid overloading your invitation with information, you can also add other cards such as: RSVP card, save the date, programme, access map, practical information, etc.
Decorative stationery
Wedding stationery is an integral part of your wedding decoration. To put it simply, we can distinguish between correspondence stationery(Save the date, invitations, RSVP, thank you notes...) and decorative stationery.
Decorative stationery is all those decorative elements that will add to the atmosphere of your event:
- place card
- menus
- table plans
- table numbers
- labels (for guest gifts or for cutlery presentation)
The ideal, to bring a maximum of coherence to your event, is therefore to match the decorative stationery to the decoration of your wedding. When you call on our wedding planner agency in Provence, you choose to entrust us with your wedding but also with its decoration, the colours and the atmosphere that you would like for your big day.
