We’ve all see the stuffy classic wedding invitations. White paper, black ink, and an embossed border. While these invitations may work for some weddings, I, personally, consider them boring. Many companies have started designing beautiful nontraditional invitations. Companies that sell wedding invitations have started designing invitations with great illustrations, bow, and die cuts. The new trend is to send your guest a wedding invitation kit with the invitation, reception information, and travel arrangements all slid into a beautifully designed envelope.

If you have access to design software or are really great at scrapbooking, you could design your wedding invitations. Inkscape is a really great program for design that is available free. If you’ve got access to Microsoft Publisher, and a creative streak, you could layout your invitations in Publisher. Adobe Photoshop is my personal favorite when it come to design software, but it is not cheap. If you are new to design or just laying out your wedding invitations, don’t waste your time with Photoshop. It is a huge piece of software, and takes months (if not years) to learn how to use.



Let’s be honest ladies, no one wants Microsoft’s tacky clip art on their wedding invitations. That’s okay; you don’t have to settle for the clip art and fonts that came on your computer. Istock has a huge collection of images (photos and illustrations) for cheap. Your local bookstores also carry “Clip Art Books” that come with CDs full of clip art.

Change the Font! Please don’t use Times New Roman and Lucida’s Calligraphy, just because they came on your computer. Every middle school student and cheap resturant uses the default fonts, and nothing says “We couldn’t afford real invitations” quite like them. The internet is full of free fonts and you don’t have to be a computer geek to install new fonts on your computer. DaFont and UrbanFonts are great places to start your quest for wedding invitation fonts. DaFont also has really great instructions for installing fonts on your computer. For your brides that are scared of breaking the computer.

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