It does not matter if you're making your wedding invites yourself or through a vendor, there are a few mistakes you need to watch out for. From typos to design flops here are the top 7 wedding invite mistakes you do not want to make.
1. Typos
Like we said it does not matter if your making your own invites or having them professionally made you need to watch out for typos. Whoever is printing your invitations will print them just as you have everything spelled so make sure you look over them two and three times. Ask your most grammatically inclined friend to proof read your invitations; please do not just rely on spell check. Double check to make sure all names are spelled correctly, there's nothing worse than getting someones name wrong. A good idea is catch errors is to read over your material from right to left; instead of left to right.
2. Incorporating everything into the wedding invites
We all agree that your stationary should be personalized in some way, but expecting too many elements of you wedding on the invitations is just going to make it look kitschy. Remember, the more specific and detail oriented you are the more expensive your wedding invites are going to be. So try to keep them simple and choose stationary that your vendor has already available.
3. Be careful with the use of color
Make sure when choosing the color of your wedding invites you are not going completely off the wedding colors. Sometimes colors do not print well on one another so be sure to pair bright colors with neutral ones. This will ensure the text is readable, and does not hurt your eyes to look at it.
4. Do not over order
Well all know it's important to order extra of your wedding invites, but before you go ordering way too many sit down and look at your list. Keep in mind if you have a guest list of 100, your not going to need 100 invitations. Add up the number of guests from households and go from there. You will have a more accurate number of invites your going to send and how many extra you should accommodate for mistakes. This absolutely will ensure that you do not end up short and have to order more a couple days before your mail out your invitations.
5. Allow your guests too much time to reply
We know your anxious to get those wedding invites out, but do not 'send them out too early or their bound to get lost in your guests endless sea of ​​mail on the coffee table. Plan for reply date to be no more than four weeks after they've received the invitation. Any longer than that and your guests are sure to have misplaced them.
6. Do not forget to add stamps to the reply card envelope
This obvious detail is many times overlooked; and even the most organized bride can make this wedding invite mistake. It's nearly impossible to get an already sealed envelope opened, so make sure you remember to put the stamps on the reply card envelopes before you seal the invite envelope itself.
7. Buying postage without weighing your invoices
No one wants to deal with invitations being returned to sender because of an insufficient amount of postage. So be sure to take a finished invoice to the post office to be weighed for proper amount of postage. This will save you from a possible head later.