Every bride wants that one importantday in her life was unique, memorable, unusual. But preparing for a wedding is a rather troublesome and expensive matter. You have to spend family savings, and then, except for the ransom and the registration, you can’t even remember anything. Over time, the photo album is looked through less and less often, and the video disc gathers dust somewhere in the closet. Agree, most weddings are as similar as two peas in a pod. Only the brides and grooms are different. Surely you want your celebration to be remembered for decades to come? In fact, it’s not that difficult to do, if you have the desire. The best thing, of course, is to arrange a theme wedding, where all the guests will be dressed in unusual outfits. Plus, you should take care of various little things that help set the right mood from the very beginning. And in this case, we will talk about invitations.
How to invite guests to a wedding
It is customary to invite guests at least three hours in advance.months before the celebration, so that they have time to prepare, buy gifts, outfits, tickets, etc. At the same time, the people whom the future newlyweds want to see at the wedding are most often sent postcards or letters, which indicate important information: date, full name, location. But you shouldn't do this simply by phone or text message! Such negligence is not welcomed. Two months before the wedding, you should call everyone to clarify whether they received an invitation, and whether they will be able to come.
We take care of invitations
Of course, you can buy regular postcards inpassage, specialized stores or order from a printing house. It will take you at least half an hour for everything. But such invitations have no soul - that very zest that will make your guests and you plunge into the fabulous atmosphere of the holiday. Therefore, it is still better to try to make the cards yourself. But how to make wedding invitations with your own hands if you are, to put it mildly, no artist? No problem! There are many ideas and options for which artistic abilities and talent for handicrafts are not so important. The main thing is creativity and desire.
Mini-film: try yourself in the role of director and actress
So, you will need an operator (1 pc), a camera(preferably digital, not a mobile phone) and an idea. Think through the script in advance. For example, at the beginning you can depict scenes of your acquaintance, the development of the relationship, the proposal itself, and at the end - an invitation to the wedding. The second option is to shoot a video, taking the idea from your favorite movie. Someone does it based on an Indian movie, where the hero saves the bride from captivity, others take Cinderella or Snow White as a basis. It all depends on the type of your couple. Perhaps the cartoon "The Bremen Town Musicians" or "Little Red Riding Hood" will suit you better. On average, everything should take no more than 5 minutes, otherwise the people watching the video will simply become uninteresting. Do not rely on chance! Be sure to prepare an action plan, think about where and how everything will be filmed. Ask someone you know to process and edit the film so that the video is beautiful. Do not forget about the packaging in which the disc will be. You can put a photo of you together on it and make some kind of introduction, briefly telling what the film will be about. You can make envelopes yourself by first printing an image on paper, then cutting out the corners and gluing them together.
Scrolls: the most simple invitations
Do you know how to use Photoshop?If you know how to change the background color, write text and print a picture, that's something. You can also download a ready-made sample from the Internet, where you will only need to fill in the information by hand. Roll the finished invitations into a tube, tie them with a ribbon or string (it all depends on the theme of the wedding). And send them to the guests. If people live far away, you should also take care of the packaging so that the invitation does not get wrinkled or torn during shipment. You can either buy ready-made tubes or make them from thick paper. No time to mess around with this? Well, the post office has small boxes that will fit these scrolls.
Invitations in the bottle: marine motifs
If the wedding ceremony will take place inin a marine style, you can send the invitation to the guests in ordinary bottles. Again, consider not only the theme of the event, but also the location. This will help to immediately tune in to the right mood, but at the same time the intrigue of the celebration will be preserved. Will the painting and party take place on the sea coast? Take an ordinary piece of paper (size A4) and write a message on it with your own hand. Roll it into a tube, put it in a bottle and close it with an ordinary wooden cork. That's it, the invitation, fished out of the sea, is ready. The second option is a treasure map. Here you will have to show ingenuity and dexterity. Draw a map on a yellow "scroll" (by hand or in a special program - it depends on your talents), lightly burn the edges of the paper with matches. Indicate the place, date and time of the event, the name of the groom and the bride. Inside the bottle we place the invitation, sea pebbles, ordinary glass candies-lollipops (play the role of jewelry), if any - fill it with sand.
Invitation on photos
We take some professional photosa good camera. We process them, retouch, remove all unnecessary things. You can make a black and white photo in a retro style or a yellow one, as if the card had been stored for several decades. We print all this beauty on a printer. It is better, of course, to use special paper. It costs a little more, but the quality of the photos will be better. It is thick, glossy and durable. You can make either a regular folded postcard or a single-sided one. The advantage of this option is that you can send the invitation in regular envelopes without fear that it will be damaged during transportation.
We make a little book: unusual invitations for original people
This is perhaps the most difficult option.invitations. To implement it, you will have to involve all your girlfriends. So, take a sheet of paper, fold it in half. Put another layer inside and sew them together (you can use gold threads or a stapler with colored fasteners). You get something like a book. Make appliques inside. For example, glue hearts cut out of fabric or paper, write poems, funny jokes, pictures. Decorate the outside with everything your heart desires, from beads and seed beads to flower petals, photographs, etc. You can also pre-type a message on the computer, formatting it like in a newspaper (in columns, slightly darkening the background). Carelessly cut it out and place it on one of the pages. You can even make one end of the newspaper article protrude above the main sheets of the invitation. You get a homemade book or magazine that you are unlikely to want to throw away even after a year and a half. The advantage is that few people undertake to implement such ideas. This is a very troublesome matter for the bride, who is already busy preparing for the celebration. Therefore, you are unlikely to find a similar option.
The basic rules for creating invitations
The first thing you should remember when creatingInvitation – each person has their own taste. And what seems funny and interesting to some, is a complete failure for others. Therefore, be sure to consult with relatives and friends so that they appreciate your creativity. Secondly, send only high-quality messages. If the video is amateur and unprocessed, the paper is thin, and the photos are taken on an old mobile phone, no matter how original you are, it is unlikely that any of the guests will like it. The next point is the delivery method. If you decide to make voluminous invitations, be sure to think about how you will send them out later. If the message is in a bottle, you will have to look for a filler for the boxes that will not allow the glass to break during transportation. Discs also need protection. Consider the availability of material. Do you have enough paper, containers, decorations, ink in the printer to create at least 100 identical options? Agree, if you send the groom's mother a regular card, and your cousin a treasure map, there will be offense. Invitations should be identical.
What else should the bride take care of?
When preparing a themed wedding, a girl shouldtake care of the bouquet, the boutonniere, and the wedding cake. You must admit that if the celebration is held in a pirate style, and the bride is holding roses, and there is a cute cake with flowers on the table, then the picture will not be complete. Therefore, we must control these details as well.
- The bride's bouquet
The bride's wedding bouquet is her calling card,reflecting the mood and general theme of the holiday. Naturally, it should match the girl's dress and harmonize perfectly with the groom's suit. Today, there is such a huge variety of all possible options that some people even get dizzy. There is even a kind of fashion for certain types of bouquets, which, by the way, is not going to stand still. More and more original solutions are being invented to ensure a long "life" for this accessory. As an example, I would like to cite a bouquet made of brooches. Its first "version" was invented about 10 years ago by florist Amanda Heer. And since then, the popularity of her know-how has only grown.
- Boutonniere of the bride
The bride's boutonniere is a small bouquet of flowers,decorated in a certain style. Beads, nets, twigs, berries are usually used for decoration. Today it is fashionable to make a bracelet out of a boutonniere and put it on the hand, but in the past it was attached to the corset of the wedding dress. Please note: it is not an important accessory, but is ordered at the request of the bride.
- Boutonniere groom
Once upon a time it all started with a simple flower,pinned to a man's clothing by a loving woman. It was a symbol of their high and true feelings. Today, it is an almost obligatory element of the groom's suit. The boutonniere was first used at the wedding of Prince Albert, who became the founder of a peculiar fashion for this accessory. Today, boutonnieres emphasize the special status of not only the groom, but also his friend, fathers and close relatives of the couple. Do not forget that a man's boutonniere should be in harmony and match the woman's (if there is one), as well as the bride's bouquet.
- Bonbonniere
A bonbonniere simply has to be spectacular,after all, it is a kind of expression of gratitude to the guests, experienced by the newlyweds for the fact that dear people came to their wedding. In general, bonbonnieres can be presented both at the beginning of the celebration and at the end. There is no single tradition, it is only important to choose the right moment. It is best if these boxes are accompanied by cards with words of gratitude.
- A wedding cake
The cake is a bright and final chorda magnificent celebration, so it needs to be a real work of art. It should be an exclusive product, the production of which should involve only experienced pastry chefs. Multi-tiered cakes are still in fashion in our country, but European and American weddings are now held with towers of cupcakes - they are no larger than a teacup. It is worth saying right away that both can be bright, spectacular, memorable and, of course, very tasty. Do not forget about all these nuances during the preparation for the wedding celebration, and then it will be held at the highest level. And after 10-15 years, you will definitely have something to tell your children, and then your grandchildren. The main thing is not to be afraid to take risks and do everything in your own way, and not according to the established pattern, like other brides.
