Wedding Ideas – DreamDay Wedding ideas

Destination weddings are becoming more and more popular whether you opt for domestic or international wedding locales. With that fact in mind, the trend for boarding pass wedding invitations styled in various forms of boarding tickets. It’s a great way to put a fun twist on your theme for a destination wedding. Let’s find out more about these great wedding invitations, shall we?

These types of weddings are usually considered a ‘destination wedding’ if the venue is 80 kilometres or so away from your residences or where the invited guests will be required to stay overnight to attend your beautiful wedding. In such cases, destination weddings can be classified as beach, vineyard, mountain or even a tropical island getaway wedding. Depending on the venue of your choice and the theme that you have picked out for your big day, you can find yourself with boarding pass wedding invitations that are beautiful, fun and memorable.

There are various styles of boarding pass wedding invitations out there, the most popular one being the airplane ticket style and variety. Most commonly styled on paper that holds measurements of 196mm x 60mm, you can style your wedding day invitation in a way that matches your wedding theme with designs that takes after the ever-trending boarding pass design. The elements of the design and layout is essentially a horizontal card invite that is separated vertically into three areas one being the purpose of the invite (as in to denote whether it’s a wedding invitation, a save the date card, or even a caption to go with your theme), the wedding invitation wording, and not forgetting the reply card section which can actually be removed/ripped/cut off so that your invitees can confirm their attendance for your big day.

Figuring out what you would like mentioned or included in the boarding pass wedding invitations is up to you. Some brides and grooms prefer to just use one side of their invite card to carry all their information with the other either side either having a design relating to your wedding theme and overall invitation style or even leaving it plain, whilst some want to add more information such as wishing well verse, maybe even include a photograph of the happy couple to be wed, or anything that you wish to include.  It’s always lovely when you neatly put things together in a package, and like so you can have a boarding pass wedding invite cover for your invitations too. They can be bi-folded or even pocket styled depending on your liking.

One way to add design elements that are unique to your wedding could be with photographic items, illustrations and silhouette designs, monograms and motifs and even watercolour and pencil drawings that are beautifully done up. Find the right look for your wedding with delightful boarding pass wedding invitations that are trendy, stylish and fun, and make your big day a hit!

Capturing the perfect blend of rustic charm and woodsy elegance, country wedding invitations are the ideal complement for a variety of different wedding themes ranging from a fun country and western wedding to a more unique barnyard or southern wedding. Depending on the style and mood you’ve decided on, you can opt to customise your wedding invitations with elegant country elements and rustic touches that epitomises the beautiful surroundings of the countryside and gives your guests a brief glimpse at what you have in store for them.

Country Flowers

Floral prints and designs are a great way to give your wedding invitations an instant touch of country! Be inspired by common favourites like sunflowers and daisies or for something a little different, weave  in sprigs of blueberries, blackberries or mint with the overall invitation design. From a single flower as a highlight element to a collection of wild country flowers, experiment and combine florals with other design elements till you create the ideal look for your country wedding invitations.

Invitation Shapes

Instead of a traditional square or rectangular wedding invitation, consider shaping your wedding invitations after a popular country element such as a boot, horseshoe or even a simple mason jar that just screams rustic elegance. When opting to use unique shaped country wedding invitations, it’s important to purchase envelopes that are a good fit.

Country Inspired Embellishments

There are a variety of different unique country inspired patterns, textures and elements to consider using when designing your country wedding invitations. The aged brown of parchment paper lends itself well to the overall country look and its  versatile nature allows it to be used for  elegant country chic wedding invitations featuring monograms  or a  more fun “Wanted” poster style wedding invitation.

Patterns and textures like burlap, lace and gingham are great elements that can either serve as inspiration for a laser cut design or can be added as DIY envelope liners or country addons to give standard wedding invitations some country flair.

Customise your country wedding invitations by wrapping  an adorable love knot around the wedding invitation card made using pieces of raffia in a colour that suits the rest of your wedding colour palette and invitation. For a truly personal look, seal the envelopes of your wedding invitations  with a cattle brand styled stamp complete with an old fashioned wax seal that really epitomises the rustic country look you’re after.

There’s a great sense of uniqueness and personality, when you and your fiancé put your heads together to finally discuss and plan all those little wedding details for the biggest and most important day of your lives. The best place for you to make your mark for a truly unique and personal wedding would be with your beautiful wedding invitations.

A great trend you’ll find nowadays is sending out wedding invitations with initials featured in beautiful ways, from the likes of a monogram to a motif design surrounding the initials itself.  You can truly own your wedding invitations and make it come alive and be sure to have a memorable and fun wedding day with great details such as this put in place. A wedding invitation is crucial to your wedding, as you can jumpstart all your design elements from this point onwards based on it, and with it creating the right tone to a memorable wedding day. By adding your initials to your wedding invites and making it a monogram wedding invitations, you are opting for a classy and elegant option for a truly great day. The way you pair the wedding invitation and initials together is based on the wedding style or theme you have chosen, but it can also depend on your likes and design aesthetic.

There are a few ways in which you can transform your monogram wedding invitations with initials, and this depends on how many letters you are using. From whether it’s one or more letters, and how you put them together to also if you are complimenting the monogram design with an ‘ampersand’ or ‘&’, as well as whether the initials are going to be embedded into a motif design and so forth. This style has been greatly used my monarchs over centuries and eras, as well as artists who want to stand out and nowadays, celebrities in marking their brands. But, there is one thing about using wedding invitations and initials together; you are definitely creating a unique look to your wedding stationery.

When deciding on the look of your monogram wedding invitations using initials, there are number of ways in which you can do so. One way would be to use the groom’s surname initial as that will be the common denominator, with the bride taking his last name, thereby giving precedence to it in the wedding invitations. Another way would be to use the initials of the bride’s and groom’s first names itself, in a type face or font of your liking, with scripted fonts being a clear favourite. Some bridal couples opt to include the ampersand to tie the two together, while others opt to include the initial of the groom’s last name in between the two first name initials too.

With a variety of ways in which you can truly add a unique and personal touch to your wedding invitations, initials can really make its mark in the category of monogram wedding invitations. Style your design today and be well on your way to a keepsake wedding invitation and stationery with your vision and personality clearly making a statement.

Whether you’re paying tribute to your Chinese ancestry or just looking for something different, opting for Chinese wedding invitations and an Asian inspired wedding theme is a great way to add an unique flair to your big day. For someone who doesn’t know much about the Chinese culture, selecting traditional Chinese wedding invitations may seem a little daunting, so we’ve put together some helpful tips and info to help you get started.

Traditional Chinese Wedding Invitation Colours

In the Chinese culture, superstitions and symbols have played an important role in  wedding planning and since the Han dynasty auspicious colours were always integrated into the different areas of traditional Chinese weddings from the wedding invites through to the decor.

A colour palette featuring red with either gold or yellow accents is the most popular for Chinese wedding invitations. While red symbolises love, happiness and luck, it is also thought to bring prosperity to a couple and thus traditional Chinese wedding gifts are usually money placed in red envelopes. Gold which symbolises wealth, joy and luck is not used as a primary colour, but instead as an accent colour on wedding invitations and decor, as it is associated with the royal family since only they were allowed to wear this colour in ancient times.

While modern brides have adapted their Chinese wedding invitations to include variations of these colours with pinks, magentas and oranges, taboo colours  that are considered negative and should be avoided are white, blue, black and grey.

Chinese Wedding Invitation Design Elements

The images of  dragons and phoenixes are popularly used as design elements for Chinese wedding invitations as  these mythological creatures are used to signify  the balance of power between a male and female in a relationship.

Other elements that are popularly featured in Chinese wedding invites are bamboo and the Chinese calligraphic symbol for double happiness. While bamboo is used to signify long life and luck, the double happiness motif which originates from the Tang dynasty is believed to help the couple and their families live together harmoniously and is thus popularly used in traditional wedding invitations, wedding decor etc.

Delivery of Chinese Wedding Invites

While traditionally the bride and grooms parents would distribute the wedding invites by hand to  wedding guests, this is a tradition that most modern brides have opted to skip and it’s now common to post Chinese wedding invitations to guests in order to save time.