Make Your Wedding Invitations Unique: Simple Ideas that Don’t Cost a Fortune

Use the invitations as a way to tell a story. You can do them on the computer and print them yourself or send the design to an affordable printing company. This is something that only your wedding invites will include since no-one has the same story. Tell people how you met or how the groom proposed. You could even tell the story of your children if you have them.

Your wedding is all about you so prove that with the wedding invitations. Make them all about you with these personal stories. This can be developed further with the thank you cards by telling a story from the honeymoon or your favourite parts from your wedding day.

Avoid making the story too long. Just six small squares with cartoon figures is enough. It allows your guests to get the idea of your time together and gives them something to talk about at the wedding. If you do too much, it makes the invites look crowded and will take away from the whole purpose of them—to tell your guests they are invited to your wedding and when/where it is!

Why put the details of the wedding in words? Use photos to give everything away. This is great if you want to include the place you are getting married into your invitations. You could stand outside the church, pointing at the name of it on the sign, or do the same outside the hotel. You could use a clock to give the time of the wedding and a calendar to mark the date. You could also have a series of photos with you holding a sign on a beach telling the location, date and time.

Avoid using too many photos. This will depend on the size of your wedding invitations and whether it is just one card or a full booklet. Too many photos will see the message lost and will make everything look crowded. If you use this type of photo wedding invitation, you will also need to think about the information you are including.

It is possible to turn this into a type of clue that people have to work out. However, you will need to make sure the answer is on the back! The last thing you want is for people to constantly ring you to find out the answer or just not turn up at all because they got it wrong!