Wedding invitation envelopes are a natural part of wedding invitations. The wedding invitation envelopes safely carry the message of your dream wedding to all of those people who are so special to you that you want them there with you to share in that incredibly amazing day. Chances are, you will not have the invitations without also having the envelopes.
There is always the possibility, however, that you could rather easily put together your own wedding invitations, in which case your wedding invitation envelopes would become a separate purchase, not necessarily part of the same package. You think about this. If you plan to create your own wedding invitations, you will need to go to a different stationer, either online or somewhere in your area, to locate wedding invitation envelopes which will well coordinate with your handmade wedding invitations.
You will probably do yourself a big favor by purchasing your wedding invitation envelopes online. You will certainly save money. Online print companies do not have overhead the likes of which a physical store is required to carry. They have fewer employees, and they often do their graphic work from a home or single-person office and send out the print work to be done elsewhere. This allows them to operate their business at bare bones costs, and those savings on their part translates to even bigger savings on your part. Your wedding invitation envelopes will then end up costing you only what it will take to use their design software with their website set-up, and the costs they have to expend to have your wedding invitation envelopes printed and shipped directly to you.
So your wedding is going to be a rather small affair—family from both sides, and close friends of yours and your fiancé. Even some friends of both sets of parents. Not many others. Since you do not have to worry about a whole bunch of wedding invitations, you have decided that it will be a neat idea to not only design your invitations but to also literally create them. Again, this is a savings in the budget department, and it will require only that you purchase the items you need to put the invitations together. There will, of course, be no labor charges involved.
There will, however, be a need for wedding invitation envelopes and, for those, you have found a great online printer who can help match your envelope paper and color to the paper and colors you will be using for your wedding invitations. You are sure that it will all align perfectly and you are quite excited to get started. Since you have a sample of the paper you will use for the invitations, and you know what colors you plan to include as your complimentary accents, you go ahead and get busy with the printer templates that will help you put together your wedding invitation envelopes.
What is it that you will need for these wedding invitation envelopes? They will be their very nature be rather simple, yes? It is, in fact, a simple process—you will match the colors on the template, see to it that the paper you choose aligns closely to the paper you have selected for the invitations, pick out the envelope style so that it will perfectly fit the design size of the wedding invitation, and work on your desired font choices for the return address information. That packs a good bit of detail into an entire afternoon’s work, and you have but a few selected hours in one afternoon to put it all together.
There is one specific decision to make, though. What about addressing the wedding invitation envelopes. How do you want to do that? You do have the choice to have each individual address pre-printed onto your wedding invitation envelopes but after carefully reviewing that option and seeing how it might look on the template, you decide against it. It will show so much nicer, and be much more personal, if you have each and every address handwritten on the outside of your wedding invitation envelopes.
Your sister, as she looks over your shoulder, agrees, and since she has absolutely beautiful penmanship, she accepts the task of addressing each of the wedding invitation envelopes after they are sent to you from the printer. This leaves only a little bit more work on your plate, and you have a good time as you fiddle with the fonts, reviewing one after another after another. You finally decide on a simple but gorgeously elegant antique script to indicate your return address on each of the wedding invitation envelopes. You choose a deep chocolate brown ink for this part of the project, the same color ink you intend to use on the wedding invitations. It really looks fabulous on your onscreen workspace, and after staring at it from all angles for about five minutes, you nod. You are 100% happy with the final result as you see it in front of you. These wedding invitation envelopes will be perfect, you are sure of it.
All that is left now for you to do is to pay for your wedding invitation envelopes order using your printer’s secure server, then hit the “send” button, and wait for them to arrive on your doorstep. You are promised that your order will get to you in less than two weeks—and that will be perfect timing for you to put together the wedding invitations themselves and have the entire project ready for mailing in less than a month. You file away your authorization verification in your wedding file, and move on to your next task. You are excited, and tomorrow will be early enough for you to get busy on the design of the wedding invitations. You realize that it was a smart move to get the wedding invitation envelopes done first. Together with the invitations, they will be sent out to their targets, your intended guests, and get back to you—in a perfect world—in more than enough time for you to see to it that your reception venue is fixed up for the right amount of people.
If you had been really creative, you think, you just might have thought about also making your own wedding invitation envelopes. You know people who have done that . . . but no, uh uh, that would be just too much. The invitation requires a set design, no particular folding, and no difficult maneuvering to get it right on the money—except for the well-done design. The wedding invitation envelopes, on the other hand, would need special formatting. You decide that is certainly best left up to the wedding invitation envelopes professionals. You want no part in it.
Maybe you’ll give a whirl for your twenty-fifth wedding anniversary!