How to Make Personalized Wedding Photo Invitations

If you want a unique way of bringing your family and friends together for your special day, consider using personalized photo wedding invitations. With photo invitations, you'll be giving guests more than an invite. You'll be giving them a keepsake.

Benefits of Using Photo Invites

When you're getting married, you want every aspect to be unique and special. Ordinary wedding invitations just will not do. Adding a photo to the invitation can make the wedding invite stand out from the many, many boring and plain invites. The recipient can keep the card as a reminder of the event that has even greater sentimental value courtesy of the photo.

Personalized photo wedding invitations are also an effective alternative to the formal invites used for weddings which sometimes seem a little plain. They give the cards a little more personality so you can share with guests more of who you are as a couple than what they might see on an ivory or off-white piece of stationery.

What if you're having trouble deciding on whether or not it's safe to show too much of your personality to your loved ones? Well, that's why you carefully consider what types of photos you might want to include.

Ideas for Choosing Photos

If you are interested in creating a photo wedding invite but you don't want to be too shocking, there are some choices to consider. And not those "private" photos you took of one another that would definitely send your grandparents over the edge. Here are a few ideas you might want to consider.

One idea is to use your engagement photo. Many couples opt to have this professional photo taken right after their engagement so the news can be published in their local newspaper. They make a good choice, especially if you have digital copies. Digital copies are easier to use when ordering your wedding invitations.

Another idea is to combine baby pictures of both of you. Most parents have tons of choices available. The images can be scanned using a home scanner or at one of your local copying or office supply stores so they become digital or so copies can be made of them.

If you have a fabulous sense of humor, why not have caricatures of the two of you drawn by a professional and used on your invitations. Nothing would quite capture your personality better or the quirky uniqueness of your wedding better.

Another fun idea is to head to your local zoo or amusement park and find one of those photo opportunities where you place your head through a hole so it appears that you have the body of a gorilla, sea lion, or some other creature. Pay one of the tourists a dollar (asking politely might not be sufficient given the current economy) to snap the picture and you've captured a perfect moment for your personalized wedding photo invitations.

If you don't want to include photos of yourself on the front of your wedding photo invitations, there are other options. Some couples use a photo of the ceremony location. This idea works well if the location is particularly beautiful or interesting, such as an old church or a botanical garden. By adding the location photo, you'll also be giving guests some assistance in recognizing the location on the day of the big event.

Here are more creative wedding invitations that you can always jazz things up with and help your favorite snapshot shine!