A wedding is a thrilling event. It makes everyone feel elated,
enchanted, and young at heart and the first item to symbolize
this blissful spirit is the wedding invitation.
After so many years of marriage and so many memories, most of
them blurred by time and an aging brain, my wedding day still
shines as one prominent remembrance with most of its details
intact. It was a happy day; a Friday I'll never forgot. I still
keep the white stiletto shoes I wore, although they are now
curved in an infantile position on top of an off-the-way closet
shelf with some of the other memorabilia, like one little box of
sugared almonds that was given to each guest as a wedding favor.
In those days being the practical me, I had refused to have a
wedding. Eloping would be so romantic, I had thought. How wrong
I was! Luckily, my mother put her foot down and made me agree to
a halfway decent wedding.
Looking through my memorabilia, I see that our wedding
invitation is the only one that stands below par; however, in
those olden days that was probably the best that could be done.
A printer printed the words on heavy sand-colored paper in
raised block letters with matching envelopes. Today's
sophisticated varieties and personalized choices were
non-existent then.
Such a pity it was, because after the marriage license, the
invitations are the most important historical documents to
recapture a couple's special day. Besides being an announcement
of their future, the invitation enlightens and informs, stating
who's who in the wedding party, when and where the wedding will
take place and the dress code required.
Thanks to more aesthetic expectations of today, if you want to
spend the money, and believe me you should, you can send out
spectacular invitations highlighting your wedding theme. They
are definitely the most indispensable element of your wedding.
Wedding invitations glimmer like colorful dreams to divine the
way to what is to come, and after the bouquet is thrown and the
last dance is danced, these distinguished items will be the ones
chosen to be preserved. Beyond any doubt, you should indulge
yourself where your wedding invitations are concerned, so when
you look back, say in fifteen or twenty years, you will not
regret having skimped, even if it meant you ate less or rented a
smaller apartment for your first few years of marriage.
If I were to do it all over again, I would insist on artistic,
spectacular invitations. I would choose handcrafted and
custom-designed aesthetic creations that would echo my vision of
the specific, poignant theme for my wedding.
For a formal or even an informal wedding, a very talented artist
I know, Sarah Prye from
http://www.prye.com/, customizes and
handcrafts colors, themes, and contents to fit any couple's
needs. She also designs, if asked, monograms for couples based
on their first and last names, and the keepsake boxes. This
makes any wedding elegant, exclusive, tasteful, and so
unforgettable.
If you are a bride to be, can you dare think how fortunate it
would be if the same unique and memorable design on the
invitations could greet your guests with table numbers,
reception menus, wedding favors, escort cards, and place cards
with matching thank-you notes to be sent later?
Designed by a true artist, your wedding invitation is
unquestionably the forerunning ambassador of your special day.
After its message is received, your wedding invitation will be
framed for you as a keepsake to represent your happiness, and
your family and friends, too, will cherish it inside their
albums forever.
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