Custom wedding invitations are truly amazing. It's so exciting to collaborate with a stationery designer on your specific taste, vision, and share details of your story to make them personal. I provided this service for 18 years, and it was a honor to make so many unique things, from creating custom hand drawn monograms and crests, custom paintings and patterns, and even crafting materials from scratch, like custom blended silk ribbons, hand dyed origami folded envelopes, and boxes and books made by hand. But custom wedding invitations can be prohibitive from a cost and time perspective. Maybe you don't have tens of thousands and a year to spend on your wedding invitations, but you still want something that feels custom and made just for you, without purchasing a template a lot of other people have used. That's where our semi custom wedding invitations come in. We're a small company that has designed each of these patterns to be personalized for you. You don't have sacrifice a lot of the things that make wedding invitations feel custom and special. Here are some ideas you can implement to maximize your budget and still get a personal and custom feel for your wedding.Â
How to get a custom look on ready made wedding invitations:
1. Add a Wrap
Add a silk ribbon you find online to match your color palette, or choose a unique combination of string and charm for an old world feel like our love letters invitation suite has.
Our love letters invitation suite is semi custom, meaning you can pick and choose the details to make it feel like it was made just for you, from the sweet letter style that you write, to the font, to the liner, to the string and charm.
Our Botanical Wedding Invitation is sweet with a yellow ribbon added.
2. Add an Envelope LinerÂ
Add an artistic element with a hand painted envelope liner, go old school traditional with a tissue liner, or add a simple pop of color with a solid or metallic paper. Either way, adding a liner makes your wedding invitations feel really special.
3. Make the Envelope Stand Out in the Mail
--CUSTOM CALLIGRAPHY
All of our invitations are printed on high end cotton paper, so there's already an amazing feel when they arrive in the mail. But one way to make your envelopes stand out even more is to hire a calligrapher to hand write each one of your envelopes. Or, even ask someone who's handwriting you like. I love this idea more than using a print service for the envelopes because hand writing is so rare, and it really means someone will open your envelope right away.Â
--STAMPS
Vintage stamps are a fun way to make a mini art collections right on the outside of the envelope. Vintage stamps, collected in your color palette and theme, should add up to the postage that it will take to mail your invitations, so it's smart to take a completed one to the post office to see what you'll need.
--WAX SEALS
Use a wax seal to seal the envelopes. You can either have a custom one made, or choose one of our pre designed wedding wax seals.
4. Add details like edge painting
Adding a special border to the invite is that extra touch that many people don't think about, but a custom wedding invitation designer knows it's an area not to be missed. We've done a lot of borders over the years, but the ones painted on the edge are our favorite. It's more noticeable on our double thick cotton paper.
Our Colorblock Wedding Invitations look luxe with gold edge painting
5. Hire a designer for one custom made piece
--HAND PAINTED MAP OR CUSTOM CREST
We love how our client asked us to hand paint this custom map of their venue to go with their Amapola wedding invitation. It really elevated the ready made invitation suite to feel one of kind and made just for them.
Want to see the quality in person? Order our Wedding Invitation Sample Pack for Free to see the quality of the cotton paper, envelope liners, and printing processes in person.
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