My Bridal Blog Chapter eleven:
Lucy Jane Gonzalez
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Wedding Stationery: Designs & Details
I never really considered invitations to cost much – how wrong
I was! Invitations and stationery can often be one of the biggest
costs involved in planning a wedding, not forgetting the postage.
While there are ways to save a considerable amount of money, such
as email invites, we are doing everything in the traditional way.
Step one is Save the Date cards. We found some lovely ones from a
tiny gift shop when we weren’t even looking. They were white and silver
and decorated with hearts, and at £1 for 10 cards we
couldn’t say no! We hand wrote these and the whole
experience was fairly quick and easy.
A Google search will instantly bring up thousands
of different websites offering thousands of different
styles and designs of invitations that can be
personalised to suit you. There’s something about
handmade invitations though that really appealed
to us and so we made an appointment with a local
company to view their collection. It was like a treasure
trove – ribbons, pearls, jewels and every colour
imaginable. It was actually a really special experience
designing our invitations together.
In the same meeting we also chose our ‘on the day’
stationery – table plan, table numbers, menu cards,
and name place cards – all tying in to the same
theme.
Of course, and as with everything wedding-related,
there are ways to keep things really simple and cut
costs. As mentioned, some co \\