Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Affordable Wedding Invitation 101

Wedding used to be grand, elegant and really expensive. Most of the time, almost the entire earnings of the couple for the past few years or so would all be spent on a one memorable night when they would start a new chapter in life, together. It is that one magical night when they would declare their love for each other in front of the people they love and tie the knot of marriage. With all of these being said about this wonderful occasion, do you think spending that much money is all worth it?

Truth be told, I don’t think so. I have attended so many weddings in the past and I could say that the true worth of the wedding is neither measured in the elite wedding venue that you rented nor in the high class wedding caterer that you got for your big day. It’s a little more than that. I have attended low-budget weddings. The ones that is simple and a little less extravagant. But equally, they are all memorable and something that is really romantic.

With that, I think it is just right that couple would now go low and slow for the wedding and save the money for their future instead. Rather than spending lots of money to your big day, having a simple wedding is wiser and more practical that way. The best way to start your practical yet equally memorable and romantic wedding is through the wedding invitations.

The wedding invitation is the soul of your big day. Could you imagine your wedding without the special people in your life would show up and and share with you this momentous occasion with you? Of course not, right? Wedding invitations are often the first thing that a couple who are planning to get married should plan and settle. It is advisable that these invitations should be send out early to make sure that the special people in your lives would be properly notified and they would reserve that day for you.

But then again, since we are in the process of reducing the cost of our wedding day, we would need some tips on an affordable wedding invitation. The secret to a beautiful and classy-looking wedding invitation lies in choosing the right paper and investing on the design that you would use.

It is also important that you also consider the printing quality of your printer when conceptualizing a design. If your printer is not capable of printing high quality colored images, then you might want to go sophisticated in black and white. Check too, if the paper that you would be using is compatible to the printer. You may have a good output when you have it printed in a bond paper but printing it on a specialized paper with a different texture may be a lot different.