The Importance of the Right Wedding Stationery

By Jennifer Clark
Guelph, ON, June 8, 2007

You and your partner have unanimously decided on the wedding date. Both of you have placed a booking on your preferred wedding venue. The banquet has been properly planned. A big part of the major details for your special day have been painstakingly looked into. However, without you or your partner realizing it, the two of you had overlooked some minor but vital details in your wedding plan.

Do you know that sometimes overly-eager couples might not give much thought on their wedding invitation cards, wedding bulletins or their guests’ books? They prefer to personally invite their guests by phone or house calling. Even though these items are readily available at specialized stores, these are some examples of wedding stationeries that are important to get ready for your wedding ceremony, both prior to and during the event.

Traditionally, these wedding pieces were simply handwritten by the host and hostess themselves. If they could afford it, a calligrapher was hired to add prestige to their invitation cards, and the wedding bulletins as well. These days, many wedding stationery items are effortlessly designed for use with home printers or readily sold in bulk by the wedding accessories supplier. You can add your own personal touches by hand-writing your and your spouse’s names on the cards and so on.  Good news for those planning on having a lavish wedding celebration, minus the big hassle of going to different wedding stores; they can place their orders for a wide variety of such items, online.

 

To begin with, the wedding invitation cards must be readied prior to the wedding day because distributing the cards to your intended guests is a proper way of inviting them to your celebration. The soon-to-be-wedded couple can opt to personally design their own invitation cards and have them printed by the wedding accessories supplier or simply purchase on-the-shelves items at the specialized stores or over the internet. Their guests’ names are either creatively hand-written or readily printed on the invitation cards. The attendees will definitely be thrilled to open the invitation after carefully taking them out of their matching envelopes. These attractive cards can be a reference for the date, time and venue of the wedding ceremony or treasured mementos of your wedding.

Although wedding bulletins are just sheets of paper with the wedding ceremony program printed on them, these bulletins are an important piece of article that needs to be given to the guests. Conventionally, this particular piece of item was prepared as an event program sheet and usually presented to the guests as they arrive at the wedding reception. Typically, the names of all those taking part in the ceremony along with a brief outline of the proceedings are included in the wedding bulletin.  This will normally include a special message or acknowledgement for the deceased family members that are present in the couple’s hearts. Some couples also use this opportunity to express their love for each other by including their romantic poem in this piece of program sheets. This wedding bulletin is also suitable as a memento for everyone to mark the special day.

It is extremely thoughtful and practical to have proper place cards prepared for the guests as well. The guests will truly appreciate the precious time and effort you have taken to ensure that a place at the wedding chapel and reception hall has been set just for them. Although this effort requires advance planning of the table assignments, it is essential to a gracious hosting. It would definitely be terrible to discover a favourite relative being accidentally seated at the back of the room next to the main entrance. Therefore, careful setting of the seats for the guests and fitting pretty place cards on the chairs or tables are extremely thoughtful attempts to make.

Wedding stationery will complement any wedding event because it helps to make sure that everything is in its place and order. The wedding date, time and venue are correctly announced. All the guests are cordially invited and promptly welcome at the reception. Then, they are properly seated at their table. Such small details can either make your celebration a wonderful success that will be remembered for years to come or the lack of will make you the talk of the town on how disorganized you are, so never underestimate something this small and seemingly insignificant.