My best friend and I recently threw a wedding shower for a college friend. We thought it would be fun and different to create the wedding shower invitations from scratch. We always prided ourselves on past artistic endeavors. After all, we were the women who wielded a mean glittery paint pen to decorate acrylic glasses for fraternity exchange party favors. We took that confidence and started off on our adventure to make the perfect wedding shower invitations. To help all those who follow our footsteps, we decided to write up a summary of our lessons learned.
Make sure the bride is okay with giving you full creative license with the wedding shower invitations and the shower. That does not entail spoiling the secret or giving away all the details. Some prospective brides have been thinking about their wedding day all their lives and also have a set vision of what the shower should look like. It is my belief that women like that would probably never agree to hand over the planning reins to someone else other than themselves in the first place. You can move onto the design phase if you already know the bride is cool with you doing whatever you want.
There are a million different designs for wedding shower invitations, so I am not going to babble on about what you can make. They should probably relate to your theme in some way, but do not have to. If a more traditional shower is planned, then just make wedding shower invitations that are fun, groovy, gorgeous or memorable (or all four).
What I have to say next can make or break the shower, so pay attention. Make sure you go over the message on your wedding shower invitations with a fine tooth comb. It often helps to have a fresh pair of eyes look at it, since a mistake you have been looking at for so long might look normal at this point. Many of the old school guidelines advise you to use proper English (as in, British English with their "favours") on your invitation. Unless Sir Elton John is on the guest list, I think this is superfluous. Quality check everything, so that there are no grammatical errors or misspellings. It is essential that the invitation recipients have the right date and time for the soiree. Check that the name of the location is spelled correctly and that the address is accurate. If the address is confusing, include directions. Make sure to tell people to reply as to whether they will be able to attend or not. There are always guests who will attend without replying, and those will not attend but never tell you. This makes planning difficult. No matter what you do, you will have a couple guests that forgot to RSVP and come anyway or those who do not show up after RSVPing. But, by making it explicit on the wedding shower invitations, you increase your odds of a good headcount tremendously. Having a clear RSVP statement, however, will give you a better chance with planning. If it is a coed party, make sure there is something in the invitation about that too. The last thing is to provide some guidelines for the attendees on dress and gifts, if the shower has a theme. "Wear your best and brightest Hawaiian garb."
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