Wedding Invitations That Look Really Great

So when I was in a position of having to plan my own marriage, it wasn't at all easy for me. I knew it was important to my relatives to have professional looking invitation cards on quality stationery - invite cards they could be proud of.

I looked at do-it-yourself wedding invitations. I had figured that I could make my own quirky, handmade wedding party invitations with personalized message invitation cards for each person. I thought it was a pretty good idea, and to my surprise, so did the relatives I talked to. My mother was all for a simple invite plan, as was my mother-in-law.

I didn't realize how much work I was getting myself into with all the "getting married" stuff, however. Planning, executing, and customizing a couple of hundred wedding invitations, along with all the ceremony and reception plans, was just beyond my means. I didn't want to spend that much money on wedding cards.

Nonetheless, I wanted to be involved in planning the invitation cards and designing them. Leaving it to the groom, the bridesmaid or bestman was not for me. I looked at several wedding invitations samples on the Internet to get some ideas. I looked in stores at the kind of quality stationery they used.

Most of them were not very good. I think people are way too sentimental with their invitations for weddings in general. They use fancy, embossed printing, tacky gold foil - the works. I didn't want a wedding invite to look like that, but I didn't want them to look cheap and shabby either. I wanted down to earth, attractive, but simple wedding invitations.

Finally, I did the sensible thing that I should have done all along. I went to a wedding invitation printer. I was trying too hard to be unconventional, when I could have saved a lot of time going conventional and moved on to something that I cared about.

I picked out some tasteful wedding invitations on good stationery, sent them out, and was done with it. It is really much easier than I had been making it. I did learn something about wedding invites from all of this, however. I learned that I did care about matters of taste and wedding etiquette.