Your Wedding Invitation - You Must Know All These Issues

You will need to make your wedding invitation card unless you are planning to send them with emails. You will most probably hire a wedding invitation vendor to make the cards for you. On the contrary, you may also choose to buy some materials to print them yourselves. However, you will certainly need to know the following points no matter you are going to order from shops or print it yourself.

Order according to your guest list

There is no doubt that you will try to create a guest list first in order to count both the number of guests to be invited and the quantity of wedding cards to be made. You can in fact divide your guest list into four parts. The first two are for the parents of you and your fiance and the other two are for you two. Firstly you will need to ask the parents of you and your fiance who they would like to invite and you will then get an idea of number of guests of the first two parts.

For the last two parts, each of you and your fiance are going to create a guest list. There will certainly be guests that are good friends of both of you two. You need to spot out all this duplicated guests from the two lists otherwise the estimation of number of guests, and the quantity of wedding invitations to be made, will be wrong. Lastly, you will combine all the four parts and you will then get a whole picture of the number of sets of invitations you are going to make.

Order some extra sets

You should never order the number of sets of wedding cards exactly the same as the number of guests you are going to invite. It is always a good idea to order a 20% extra so that there will not be any problem if you want to invite more guests later. You have to bear in mind that you will be constantly adjusting your wedding plan and it will be certainly a mess if you find that you need one or two more sets of invitations later on.

Avoid the problem of insufficient postage

You should never estimate the postage fee at home. You have to bring a set of invitation to the post office and ask for the exact postage fee. If you do not pay sufficient postage, the post office may put stamps of "insufficient postage" on the envelopes. This will certainly ruin the perfect wedding invitation which you have been searching for months.

Get the addresses on envelopes hand written

Couples always ask if it is alright to type all the addresses on the computer and then print them on labels or directly on the envelopes of the wedding cards. Of course you can always have an option to do that. However, you will prefer to get the addresses hand written if you are a person who thinks that etiquette is important for your wedding. Even if you are not planning to hire a calligrapher, you should try to write the addresses by your hand so that your guests can feel your sincere.

Jerry Leung is a wedding invitation designer with great interest in Chinese Style Wedding cards. He designs unique Personalized Wedding Invitations. Besides, he runs a blog on weddings to share his ideas on items such as Funny Wedding Cakes.