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Friday, April 4, 2008

Personalize your Wedding

How to Personalize Your Wedding

from wikiHow - The How to Manual That You Can Edit

Instead of letting a wedding planner or catering consultant turn your wedding into another cookie cutter event, use your imagination to make the event one-of-a-kind. Creativity can help to make any wedding look like it cost a million dollars.

Steps

Consider all your invitation options. Don't limit yourself to the conservative engraved variety. How about one that's folded -- origami style -- into a crane? Why not use a delicate blue or shell pink paper stock instead of white? Simple is always better for a bride. Engraved is nice, but a small wedding might use calligraphy -- or even your own personally handwritten invitation. Did you fall in love while on vacation? How about printing the invitation on a postcard from the site of your meeting?
Choose interesting mood music. "Here Comes the Bride" is traditional but boring. No one will call a halt to the proceedings if you choose the Toreador song from "Carmen" or "Love Will Keep Us Together" by the Captain & Tennille. Pick a song that has real meaning for you both.
Instead of rounding up the usual catering suspects, call on your favorite restaurant and see if they can provide the wedding goodies. And it doesn't have to be a dinner. An early wedding brunch after a sunrise ceremony or an intimate supper following a late afternoon wedding are more glamourous than the usual reception. Pick foods you love, not run of the mill chicken-or-fish. Can you serve chili and beer? Why not? Mushroom risotto and a 100% vegan menu? Absolutely.
Make it your celebration. And don't forget dessert. The wedding cake can be the usual bridal delight, or you can let your fantasy take sweet flight...cakes come in virtually any shape, size or configuration. They can be covered with real flowers, or dripping in edible pearls. The happy couple can be displayed in icing, or the cake can pay homage to the hobby that brought you together. It's your choice to make.
Don't forget the personalized M&Ms. Yes, it's true. You can pick your own M&M colors and have them monogrammed or printed with your name (short names work best...this is an M&M we're talking about). You get two lines of 8 letters/spaces. Enough for an I Love You, or your wedding date, and a choice of 13 colors, including silver. An 8 oz. bag is 8.50.

Tips

Use personalized postage stamps for your invitations. You select a photo, go to photostamps.com, zazzle, stamps.com or similar, upload the picture, pick out a stamp you like and place your order. Voila, about a week or so later, you've got personalized postage stamps.
Your favorite "couples" picture is perfect for wedding invitations...and think long term: This could be the start of a family tradition, with babies, anniversaries, all the milestones marked by your own family stamps.
Include your special pet in your wedding, and be sure to dress them up in a dog tuxedo or dress! Some pets can be excitable, though, so to save your dress, be sure to visit the groomer and have vinyl nail caps applied to your pet's nails. They are made for cats as well as dogs, and they come in several colors.
Consider a dress of another color! Or order a custom corset with matching skirt. It can be cheaper than many wedding dresses from local retailers.

Warnings

Remember to check with the post office about any possible rate increases in postage. If you don't it could cost you a lot more that you budgeted for.

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Thursday, April 3, 2008

Make inexspensive Wedding Invitations

How to Make Cheap Homemade Wedding Invitations

from wikiHow - The How to Manual That You Can Edit

Would you like to save money on your wedding invitations and
still have lovely invites that will impress everybody who
receives one? Of course you would! Why not make them yourself? You are probably thinking that you have no idea of how to make cheap homemade wedding invitations. It isn’t difficult, saves you quite a bit of money and can be great fun.

Steps

Decide on the level of formality your wedding will have. This will have an effect on your design and wording choices.
Browse the web, looking for, do it yourself wedding invitation ideas. Many sites offer free templates with or without designs and wording samples. They allow you to download templates to use as is or to adapt to suit your needs. Some sites only allow you to download free templates if you purchase your wedding stationary from them.
Decide on your design, or graphic image and the wording that you will use.
Pick a font that goes with the theme and style of your invitations.
Buy your wedding invitation stationery, including cards for any enclosures, such as RSVPs, Thank You cards and programs. You may want to use your stationery blanks which are available in a wide variety of sizes and colors, purchase a few extra in case of a printing mishap, such as an ink smear or paper jam.
Purchase extra ink cartridges, so that you don’t run out in the middle of this important project.
Schedule an afternoon or evening to create your invitations and then print them. The whole thing shouldn’t take more than a couple of hours to complete.
Before telling the printer to begin making X number of copies, print one copy of each piece on plain paper cut to the sizes of your stationery, to make sure that everything is lined up properly, and to check for typographical errors.
Make sure that the printer you plan on using adjusts to the different sizes of your stationary.
Enlist family and friends with nice handwriting to help you address your invitations.
Have fun while learning how to make cheap homemade wedding invitations.
If you're printing on vellum or other specialty paper and find it smears, you might google "The Perfect Printing Pouch"--by ScraPerfect Here's a and typical comment from the website:
"If I had to describe this product in 2 words, they would be, 'Like Magic!'
Seriously, this saved me further frustrations. I was printing Wedding
invitations with vellum and no matter what I did (that I researched on the
inter-net) it still would eventually bleed! When I came across your product,
for the price, "I thought what do I have to lose?" Your service was
top-notch and within 2 days, I was printing invitations that were keepers!
Thank you! You may print my comments, although it seems you have plenty of
very satisfied customers!
Christina H. from Winfield, KS"

Tips

Are you feeling overwhelmed, by trying to choose a design for your invitations? What is your theme? If you are having a destination wedding use clip art, photos or original art work that represent your destination, such as a beach scene, flip flops, palm trees, sunsets, or mountains.
Here, are some design ideas, that you may want to use on your invitations. For a western wedding a WANTED poster is at present very popular. Cowboy boots, and hats are often seen on western invitations. Couples often use fonts that look like logs or rope on this type of invitations.
Disney weddings are also extremely popular, and you can download free clip art of Cinderella and Prince Charming to use on your invitations, as well as other Disney icons like Lady and the Tramp.
Many couples are choosing to honor their religious or ethnic roots, for example, a Celtic Cross might be chosen by an Irish Catholic couple, and a Star of David or a rolled Torah scroll by a Jewish couple. A native American bride and groom might use a dream catcher on theirs. Consider honoring your heritage on this special day. Photos of landmarks from your ancestral homeland, also make great images for wedding invitations.
Where to find wording examples? How about using a quote from your favorite love song or poem or the Bible. We hope these tips on how to make cheap homemade wedding invitations, have inspired you to give it a try.

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Make Your Own Wedding Invitations

Article provided by wikiHow, a collaborative writing project to build the world's largest, highest quality how-to manual. Please edit this article and find author credits at the original wikiHow article on How to Make Cheap Homemade Wedding Invitations. All content on wikiHow can be shared under a Creative Commons license.

Tuesday, March 4, 2008

How to Make Inexpensive Quality Homemade Wedding Invitations

How to Make Cheap Homemade Wedding Invitations

Steps

Decide on the level of formality your wedding will have. This will have an effect on your design and wording choices.
Browse the web, looking for, do it yourself wedding invitation ideas. Many sites offer free templates with or without designs and wording samples. They allow you to download templates to use as is or to adapt to suit your needs. Some sites only allow you to download free templates if you purchase your wedding stationary from them.
Decide on your design, or graphic image and the wording that you will use.
Pick a font that goes with the theme and style of your invitations.
Buy your wedding invitation stationery, including cards for any enclosures, such as RSVPs, Thank You cards and programs. You may want to use your stationery blanks which are available in a wide variety of sizes and colors, purchase a few extra in case of a printing mishap, such as an ink smear or paper jam.
Purchase extra ink cartridges, so that you don’t run out in the middle of this important project.
Schedule an afternoon or evening to create your invitations and then print them. The whole thing shouldn’t take more than a couple of hours to complete.
Before telling the printer to begin making X number of copies, print one copy of each piece on plain paper cut to the sizes of your stationery, to make sure that everything is lined up properly, and to check for typographical errors.
Make sure that the printer you plan on using adjusts to the different sizes of your stationary.
Enlist family and friends with nice handwriting to help you address your invitations.
Have fun while learning how to make cheap homemade wedding invitations.
If you're printing on vellum or other specialty paper and find it smears, you might google "The Perfect Printing Pouch"--by ScraPerfect Here's a and typical comment from the website:
"If I had to describe this product in 2 words, they would be, 'Like Magic!'
Seriously, this saved me further frustrations. I was printing Wedding
invitations with vellum and no matter what I did (that I researched on the
inter-net) it still would eventually bleed! When I came across your product,
for the price, "I thought what do I have to lose?" Your service was
top-notch and within 2 days, I was printing invitations that were keepers!
Thank you! You may print my comments, although it seems you have plenty of
very satisfied customers!
Christina H. from Winfield, KS"

Tips

Are you feeling overwhelmed, by trying to choose a design for your invitations? What is your theme? If you are having a destination wedding use clip art, photos or original art work that represent your destination, such as a beach scene, flip flops, palm trees, sunsets, or mountains.
Here, are some design ideas, that you may want to use on your invitations. For a western wedding a WANTED poster is at present very popular. Cowboy boots, and hats are often seen on western invitations. Couples often use fonts that look like logs or rope on this type of invitations.
Disney weddings are also extremely popular, and you can download free clip art of Cinderella and Prince Charming to use on your invitations, as well as other Disney icons like Lady and the Tramp.
Many couples are choosing to honor their religious or ethnic roots, for example, a Celtic Cross might be chosen by an Irish Catholic couple, and a Star of David or a rolled Torah scroll by a Jewish couple. A native American bride and groom might use a dream catcher on theirs. Consider honoring your heritage on this special day. Photos of landmarks from your ancestral homeland, also make great images for wedding invitations.
Where to find wording examples? How about using a quote from your favorite love song or poem or the Bible. We hope these tips on how to make cheap homemade wedding invitations, have inspired you to give it a try.

Related wikiHows

Sources and Citations

Make Your Own Wedding Invitations

Article provided by wikiHow, a collaborative writing project to build the world's largest, highest quality how-to manual. Please edit this article and find author credits at the original wikiHow article on How to Make Cheap Homemade Wedding Invitations. All content on wikiHow can be shared under a Creative Commons license.

Thursday, February 7, 2008

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