Top 10 tips for your wedding stationery

1)    First impressions count!! Your invitations will set the scene of the wedding and will get your guests excited about your wedding! High quality doesn’t mean high cost and your wedding stationer will be able to advise you on the right style of your stationery to fit your event and budget.
   
2)    Ask your wedding stationer to add a note onto the bottom of the RSVP cards asking each guest to name 1 of their favourite party songs. Your guests will love hearing their favourite songs at your wedding.

3)    Make sure you leave plenty of time to get your invitations designed and printed. Any good stationer will send you out a proof of the design for you to check and sign to say that it is ready for print. This combined with the time it takes to print, design and assemble the stationery could total about 6 weeks from ordering to delivery.

4)    Make sure that you allow one invitation per family or couple including a courtesy one for your parents and their partners. Include family and friends who may already have informed that they can’t attend, but who would appreciate receiving an invitation, for example grandparents or long distance relatives. Allow a few spare for additional guests to be added at a later date and for mistakes should you be adding names on afterwards.
   
   
5)    Make sure that you specify whether or not children are invited. You don’t want your guests to presume and bring along their 5 children under the age of 8 if you’re having a small and child-free wedding! That gives the guests who are parents the opportunity to make arrangements and ensures no awkward and costly mistakes when they bring the brood along unless you want them there.
   
6)    Find a stationer who can provide the whole package if colour co-ordination is important to you. By using co-ordinating stationery such as menus, placecards, table numbers and favour boxes you will find that this will help to dress your tables beautifully!

7)    Make sure that you include a reply date! Check with your venue to see when they need final numbers by and allow 3 weeks after the reply date for the late replies. This will give you time to call and confirm the guests attendance.
   
8)    If you need to get your invitations ordered but haven’t decided on a theme for your wedding then go white and simple. Not only will they look elegant and classy but also you’ll be able to dress that design up with some coloured ribbon to match your theme if you do change your mind.

9)    If you, like many modern couples, are short on time find a stationer who also offers a postal service then all you have to do is sit back and wait for the RSVPs to start rolling in!

10)    Make sure that you include all the information in your invitations that you think your guests need to know such as venue dress code, whether there will be an evening reception, who exactly is invited, maps or hotel information. Find a stationer who can include this information in co-ordinating inserts. (Table Planning shop sells co-ordinating invitation inserts for just 20p each!