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If you have a lot of information to include, layered wedding invitations are the ideal choice to keep things organised and compact. A popular trend, this wedding invitation style comprises of different sheets containing information on both the ceremony, reception and other wedding related events arranged in a beautiful, sequential and elegant manner.

Black Layered Wedding Invitations

Suitable for either a simple chic wedding or even a luxurious wedding theme, layered wedding invitations bring an innovative look to your wedding no matter what the season or the overall wedding style you’re after. Ensure your layered wedding invites are unique by choosing a coloured backing, overlays in different textures and a ribbon that’s complementary to your personalities and the wedding theme. For a clean and polished look, keep the different layers in place using a few dots of glue and then place a ribbon around the wedding invitation for decorative purposes. Read on to find out about the different styles of layered wedding invitations available.

 

Contemporary Layered Wedding Invitations

Add an unique flair of contemporary style to your wedding with layered wedding invitations that include a pop of colour and modern design elements. Experiment with today’s hottest  wedding invitation styles to create an invitation design that’s perfect for a trendsetting couple. From vibrant colour palettes and modern chevron  & ombre designs to the contemporary elegance of typography and photo designs, channel your creativity to build a design that captures your style and personalities.

 Ribbon layered wedding invitations

Traditional Layered Wedding Invitations

For a more formal and traditional wedding, give your layered wedding invitations an elegant touch that honours a timeless sophisticated style. Featuring luxurious designs that are resplendent of a classic era,  work with  damask, royal and other traditional patterns complemented by ornate scroll borders, script fonts and monograms to create a traditional invitation design style that suits your unique wedding theme..

 Foil Layered Wedding Invitations

DIY Layered Wedding Invitations

Give your wedding a personal touch by channeling your creativity with DIY layered wedding invitations. Dress up your favourite wedding invitation by either adding a vellum overlay with wording printed on it or a pocket fold to hold your inserts topped off by a monogrammed ribbon for the ultimate custom look! For an added unique flair, print a photograph of the couple on the vellum overlay.

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.

Boarding Pass Wedding Invitations

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.

Destination  Boarding Pass Wedding Invitations

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 Wedding Invitations

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.

Merlot  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 Wedding Invitations

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.

Monogram Wedding Invitations

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.

Royal Navy Monogram Wedding Invitations

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.

Black Monogram Wedding Invitations

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.

All about the glitz and glam of the 1920s, art deco wedding invitations have become a popular choice amongst brides looking for wedding invitations with an unique flair. Originating from France, the art deco design concept is a form of elaborate ornamentation that uses geometric patterns, luxe designs, bold colours and stylised forms to create a distinctive art style that makes a striking wedding invitation motif.

Your wedding invitations are the first glimpse your guests get at your wedding and while it should set the tone of your wedding day by reflecting your art deco wedding theme, it shouldn’t give away too much in order to retain the ‘wow’ factor on the big day.

With this in mind, design your art deco wedding invitations around a signature element or pattern from the era and carry that design element throughout your entire wedding stationery line, as well as your wedding decor and other areas of your wedding.

Popular art deco inspired  invitation design elements stem from geometric inspired shapes such as spheres, polygons, rectangles, trapezoids, zigzags, chevrons, sunburst motifs etc and should be ideally arranged in a symmetrical pattern. Remember to opt for a bright and high-contrast colour palette for  your art deco wedding invitations to keep with the vivid and bold colours used with this particular design concept.

Represent the opulence and decadence of the art deco era, by opting to use foiled wedding invitations in a brilliant gold and silver finish to give your art deco wedding invitations a  spectacular edge!

Spend some time experimenting  with different fonts before choosing one for the wording of your art deco wedding  invitations. Distinctive font styles that feature both the roundness of letters and sharp detail are popular and fonts such as  Parisian, Kingsbury, Helvetica or Revlon are good examples of this.

If geometric art deco designs are not your cup of tea, you can alternatively use images of famous art deco buildings such as Sydney’s ANZAC War Memorial and the theatres in St Kilda, Victoria, the Palais and Astor,  which are considered to be some of the finest surviving art deco buildings in Australia.

Art deco inspired artwork by artists such as Louis Icart, Paul Colin and Jean Carlu are great imagery to use in art deco wedding invitations in order to really evoke the essence of the period and create wedding invitations that are a true reflection of the art deco era.

All about the glitz and glam of the 1920s, art deco wedding invitations have become a popular choice amongst brides looking for wedding invitations with an unique flair. Originating from France, the art deco design concept is a form of elaborate ornamentation that uses geometric patterns, luxe designs, bold colours and stylised forms to create a distinctive art style that makes a striking wedding invitation motif.

Your wedding invitations are the first glimpse your guests get at your wedding and while it should set the tone of your wedding day by reflecting your art deco wedding theme, it shouldn’t give away too much in order to retain the ‘wow’ factor on the big day.

With this in mind, design your art deco wedding invitations around a signature element or pattern from the era and carry that design element throughout your entire wedding stationery line, as well as your wedding decor and other areas of your wedding.

Popular art deco inspired  invitation design elements stem from geometric inspired shapes such as spheres, polygons, rectangles, trapezoids, zigzags, chevrons, sunburst motifs etc and should be ideally arranged in a symmetrical pattern. Remember to opt for a bright and high-contrast colour palette for  your art deco wedding invitations to keep with the vivid and bold colours used with this particular design concept.


Represent the opulence and decadence of the art deco era, by opting to use foiled wedding invitations in a brilliant gold and silver finish to give your art deco wedding invitations a  spectacular edge!

Spend some time experimenting  with different fonts before choosing one for the wording of your art deco wedding  invitations. Distinctive font styles that feature both the roundness of letters and sharp detail are popular and fonts such as  Parisian, Kingsbury, Helvetica or Revlon are good examples of this.

If geometric art deco designs are not your cup of tea, you can alternatively use images of famous art deco buildings such as Sydney’s ANZAC War Memorial and the theatres in St Kilda, Victoria, the Palais and Astor,  which are considered to be some of the finest surviving art deco buildings in Australia.

Art deco inspired artwork by artists such as Louis Icart, Paul Colin and Jean Carlu are great imagery to use in art deco wedding invitations in order to really evoke the essence of the period and create wedding invitations that are a true reflection of the art deco era.

Making an impression goes a long way, whether it’s day-to-day or your wedding day! Why not make such an impression with your wedding invitations as well? They are after all, a representation of the love you and your fiancé have for one another as well as the day you officially become united in holy matrimony.  Go for something timeless and unique, definitely that represents you both, such as an elegant monogram for the wedding invitation design.

Many of us have already seen monograms being used by the likes of royal families or more commonly in the corporate world, and it’s definitely a way of making a statement to what it is all about. That could very well be what you want to convey as well, a customised design to say that “hey, this is our special day and we are making our mark“. A monogram is defined as a motif that utilises two or more letters in an overlapping or combined design of your choosing and styling to form a single symbol. The shape of your monogram can be anything from round to square or even rectangular. Also, it can even be shaped according to the outline of the symbol that you have formed. There is no doubting that this process is fun and exciting, because you are creating a custom representation of your new life together and one that will be featured first on your elegant monogrammed wedding invitations.

There are many ways in which you can come about a design that is elegant and personalised, but first you will need to define your style and colours, as well as the wedding theme you are hoping to use. Depending on these factors, the design of your monogram wedding invites could very well differ. Start out by deciding the styles and themes that you are comfortable with using for your big day, they could be anything from vintage, retro, contemporary or modern. Depending on what you have chosen, you can make a lovely and elegant monogram wedding invitations accordingly to these different styles and design, and not forgetting colour themes as well.

Some options for you to consider in terms of using monogram wedding invitations that are elegant, would include the likes of using your initials with the use of an ampersand sign, or what we know as this symbol – “&”.  The font face, typography or calligraphy that you have chosen to design your monogram can define the look of it all. Other options could include interweaving or intertwining letters, the initials placed alongside another symbol such as the infinity symbol, and much more. Play around with your options while drafting to come up with an elegant monogram for an equally elegant wedding invitations that fits well into the vision for your special day.

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.

Chinese Wedding Invitations

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.

Styles and trends come and go, but elegance in weddings stem from the wedding invitations that you meticulously envision. That is a common factor in many weddings, where the invitations and stationery leaves a lasting impression when it comes down to the style and design choices. Like so, one such design includes elegant typography for your wedding invitations and stationery. Over the years, typography has made an impact in the wedding industry, and bridal couples tend to raise the bar in terms of making their own statement.

Beau Typography Wedding Invitations

Beau Typography Wedding Invitations

Typography essentially refers to the arrangement of the typeface or font whilst using sizing and styling techniques, and is considered an art form. What it simply is would be the arrangement of words in a creative manner, which could very well be unique to your wedding. For a beautifully done up wedding invite to come about, you will need to hone in on your creativity and imagination, and then put your ideas into motion with the help of a wedding invitations and stationery designer, or even an artist. For those couples who have the skills to do it yourself, then kudos to you! For those who prefer to use professionals for their wedding services such as the invites and stationery, there are many options of designs and styles of elegant typography wedding invitations available at your fingertips.

 

Della Typography Wedding Invitations

Della Typography Wedding Invitations

One goal of these typography wedding invitations is to make a memorable impact in the minds of your invitees and guests and for them to be impressed with the look and feel of your message of love, because, let’s face it, that is what a wedding invitation is. It’s a carrier of information pertaining to your upcoming nuptials and it should leave a fond memory in your hearts and well as the hearts and minds of your guests.

Mystical beach typography wedding invitations

Choose between the different themes, styles, and colours to come up with the best possible look for your invitations for your dream day. When it comes to elegant wedding invitations, you can choose from the many styles of type or font that can complement the look, depending on the colours you choose, to the illustrations or photography you may opt to accompany the typography as well. Elegant wedding styles include the likes of traditional designs using flourishes, sleek lines, or choice patterns, but that does not mean that you can’t go down the modern design route.

Entwined Typography Wedding Invitations

Pick a wedding theme that complements not only the look of your wedding invitations and stationery but also that of the decor, and other elements to make your special day one that your family, friends and other guests will rave about.

A timeless and chic colour combination, black and ivory wedding invitations have remained a trendy choice over the years for the simple, but stunning elegance it can bring to a wedding. Commonly used for formal black tie or traditional weddings, black and ivory wedding invites can also be adapted and transformed to suit a variety of more contemporary wedding themes. Read on to find out about some popular ways to use black and ivory in your wedding invitations.


Formal Black and Ivory Wedding Invitations

The epitome of elegance and class, formal black and ivory wedding invitations are popularly used for traditional weddings. A cursive, raised font in black printed on an ivory cardstock is a common choice for a traditional look and is usually carried through to the rest of the wedding stationery such as the RSVP, Direction and Thank You cards for cohesion.

Give your traditional black and ivory wedding invitations a contemporary look by opting for a classic, embossed monogram at the top of the invite along with a  satin finish border.


Black and Ivory Wedding Invites with a Splash of Modern

Add a contemporary edge to basic black and ivory wedding invitations  by trying out something different with the layout and size of your wedding invite. While a rectangular or  square shaped wedding invitation is the standard shape, channel a modern vibe by experimenting with a circular wedding invite or  even just adding on scalloped edges to an otherwise run of the mill wedding invitation. However, while you’re free to get as creative as you like, remember that  bulky wedding invites may cost more for postage.


Typography is a great modern design concept to add use for your black and ivory wedding invitations. Get inspired and try out different fonts and text sizes to create a stunning, high impact wedding invitation. Remember to ensure the font you choose reflects the right mood and your chosen wedding theme.


DIY Black and Ivory Wedding Invitations

Customise your wedding invitations by opting for DIY black and ivory wedding invitations that  can be easily personalised online to reflect the couple’s personalities and the specific wedding theme.

Either order a DIY wedding invitation kit from a trusted online supplier or order standard black and ivory wedding invites and add on a personal touch by decorating them yourself. Ribbon, glitter, lace edging, fabric bands, intricate buckles, buttons and just about anything else can be are fabulous DIY elements for your wedding invites.

Black and Ivory Wedding Invitations

Weddings are made better with themes, colour, styling, and designs that reflect a time period, a much loved attraction or idea. There are many great wedding themes out there, but when you take inspiration from literature or an era, there is much wonder to be seen. The Great Gatsby is perfect for your wedding, the decor, and not forgetting an important item, the wedding invitations, with inspiration to be had from this beautiful piece of literature by F. Scott Fitzgerald, as well the swinging 1920s era.

You might ask yourself what The Great Gatsby is all about, and what it entails, and how it can be transcended into your wedding theme. This literary genius looks into the ways and the styles of the 1920s decade, the lifestyles, and the personas that lived during that time. Jazz was very popular during the time, and with it, the glamour, culture, fashion, art and music was quite the ‘scene’. That could be something you and your fiancé can capture and instil into your wedding.

Baroque  Love Great Gatsby Wedding Invitations

Ways in which this theme could be put to use would be with your great gatsby wedding invitations, the attire, and decor you choose. Whilst brainstorming on the perfect look for your special day with your fiancé, you could take the best of this era, with its lifestyle, the beauty, and mystery of it all. With it, you could very well take all those details and put it into a cohesive design to form your wedding invitations and stationery, and thereafter use that as the stepping-stone to set the tone of your wedding theme.

Wedding Invitations Inspired by The Great Gatsby

Take in the charm of the roaring and swinging Twenties, with its vintage flavour and art deco scene, dazzling flapper fashion with beads and feathers, top hats and more. There are many designs and styles to choose from that are essentially from this time, and a set of colour themes that are considered perfect.
Patterns are very important when doing up a Great Gatsby wedding, and if you are putting it to use, the wedding invitation should make a feature out of it. Whether it’s an elegant and intricate baroque pattern, to filigree swirls and not forgetting signature frames, chevron and stripes that are ever-so popular teamed up with black and white, rich emerald greens, sandy gold, dashing magentas and so on. The type of font you use also plays a great role as this time period had its own font face. You could use a similar one to tie it all in. Otherwise, you would also use serif type fonts to mimic it.
With such pointers, you are well on your way to a beautiful and dazzling wedding that reminiscence The Great Gatsby of the 1920s era.

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