Designing Your Wedding Invitations? Here’s What You Should Include

There are few events more special than your very own wedding day, and it’s a day that ought to be filled with joy and anticipation. Of course, planning a wedding is usually quite a big task – even for smaller weddings – but one of the most important things to consider is who’s invited.

Nowadays, wedding invitations come in all sorts of styles and quite often they fit certain themes, but there are a few things that belong on just about every wedding invitation and here’s what you need to get started with yours:

Essential Information Every Wedding Invitation Needs

Let’s start off with the basics. Every wedding invitation should always contain the following information:

• Names: who’s getting married? Optionally, you could tailor some invitations to include the name of the recipient for a really personal touch.
• Date & time: when is the wedding taking place? Make sure you’ve decided on a time and date with the event venue first!
• Venue: where is the wedding taking place? Whether in a church, garden, on a beach, in another state or country, make sure you specify where invited guests need to show up. You could be specific and mention things like “arrive early at this door or foyer,” if necessary.
• Dress code: how should attendees dress? It’s not always safe to assume everyone will be on the same page about dress code! Specify whether men need to wear a suit, if there’s one or more colours, or if there’s a theme.
• RSVP details: how does the recipient notify you whether or not they will attend? Make sure to address how to respond, who to respond to, and when the deadline is to respond.

Extra Notes on RSVP

For the RSVP details, you can knock out all three of the aforementioned criteria with one short little sentence like:

“We [who? Implied] kindly anticipate your response no later than 15 October 2026 [when?] at (07) 1234 5678 or andrew@email.com [how?]”

When putting together your wedding invitation, you might even want to ask them to give additional information depending on what you’ve planned. For example, a meal preference (e.g. “please select either seafood, meat, or vegetarian”), plus one (if applicable), or even directing invited guests to fill out an online form with all of this information.

Simple Design Considerations for Your Wedding Invitations

Now with all of the essentials out of the way, the rest is pretty much up to your own creativity. When it comes to wedding invitation printing design ideas, the sky’s the limit.

Think about matching the invitations’ colour scheme to whatever you have selected for the wedding, fonts, use of photos or graphics (or none at all!), and use of white space are all important to think about.

Do a Final Check Before Getting the Invitations Printed

As with any sort of batch printing, it’s always good to follow the old carpenter’s rule of “measure twice, cut once.” Give your invitation design a thorough final check and make sure there are no typos, there’s no missing RSVP information like a deadline, and don’t leave the whole process to the last minute. Lastly, don’t order too few invitations; a few extras could always come in handy and it’s best to get them all printed in one go.

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