A beautifully designed wedding invitation is your friends and family’s introduction to your wedding. Your invite builds anticipation and shares all the important details.

It’s often one of the most exciting parts of the wedding-planning process: mailing out your invitations. After securing your venue and finalising who will be invited, it’s time to inform your loved ones of all of the details surrounding your big day. Regardless of whether you decide to send out save the date cards, there are a number of essential pieces of information you’ll need to include in your invitations. In addition to noting the date, time, and location of the celebration, you’ll want to identify the dress code, inform your invitees how to RSVP, and, depending on your venue, potentially write out directions. Your invitation suite serves as a window into your celebration, which is why it’s so important to include all of the essential details.

You don’t want to overlook the design of your wedding stationery. While the primary purpose of these paper products is to inform your invitees about the date & time of the wedding, they also give your guests a preview of the wedding style. Since your invites are the very-first element your friends and family will see, thereby setting the tone for your celebration, it’s important to choose a suitable design that corresponds to the look and feel of your upcoming wedding. Though you can certainly opt for traditional invitations with white card stock and an elegant black font, there are endless ways to show your creativity.

Here are a few ideas:

• If flowers are a focal point of your wedding, especially if you’re hosting your affair in a garden, deck out your invitations in floral illustrations.
• Instead of a plain-paper backdrop, incorporate texture into your unique wedding invitations.
• Will your venue be the focal point of your big day? If so, a unique wedding invitation design idea is showcasing the setting.
• While a rectangular-shaped piece of paper is the norm, why not switch things up with other abstract shapes?
• Couples often include custom crests into their wedding décor, especially their stationery suite. To spotlight your personalized logo, opt for an oversized design on the back of your invites. Then, to reinforce the monogrammed illustration, stamp it on the top of your invitations.
• If you’re throwing a retro wedding, be sure to include elements of your chosen decade into your stationery suite.
• Monochromatic shades can make your wedding invitations one-of-a-kind, especially if the hue is bright and bold.
• Overloading your friends and family with a lot of information right off the bat can be overwhelming. Instead, add a few key details to your invitations and direct guests to your wedding website for the rest.
• A neutral-toned invitation suite is a great way to welcome guests to an earthy, bohemian celebration.
• Is there a certain design detail that will be a recurring part of your big day? Introduce the visual concept through unique wedding invitations.
• Planning a vintage-inspired wedding? Turn back the clock by conceptualising an invitation suite with hand-torn edges, gold print, and old-world calligraphy.
• If you’re getting hitched in a surreal place, you’ll definitely want to integrate the site into your destination wedding invitations. A watercolor-painted map of the spot is one way to showcase the local colors of your affair in an aesthetically pleasing and functional way. You can also add a custom envelope liner that establishes a sense of place.
• For a multicolored suite with a combination of colors, instead of mixing all of the hues together, consider color-blocking your paper products.

Smith Print has printed hundreds of wedding invitations for dozens of happy customers over more than 30 years. Our focus is on achieving amazing wedding stationery without breaking the bank. Abby will be your point of contact so you can be rest assured that you’ll be ‘talking’ to a real person during the whole process. We custom-design your stationery to meet your individual requirements. We can either work from your brief or make suggestions to match the theme of your wedding.

We are able to print on a variety of stocks, from smooth to textured, up to 400gsm. Our digital press is able to print in full colour as well as gold, silver & white. Abby will be able to make suggestions so you can achieve the maximum ‘bang for your buck’.

We can do a full wedding stationery package – see our detailed page here