Wedding stationary is the first impression of your wedding

Wedding stationary is one of the most vital elements of the wedding planning process, which becomes immediately obvious to any newly engaged couple. You can’t have a wedding with guests without some sort of wedding stationary, right? Think about it – the other elements of weddings are typically optional and changeable depending upon the style of the wedding, but wedding stationary is an absolute must no matter what… unless you are planning to eschew wedding stationary and call all of your guests on the telephone, that is.

Wedding stationary is traditionally in a fairly ornate format with engraved and embossed elements throughout and a very standard set of wedding cards that must be included, but nowadays stationary is more about the individual wedding than the wedding stationary traditions themselves. For instance, if you are having a casual, cocktail style wedding, you wouldn’t want to send out very heavy, traditional stationary on ornate paper. Instead, you can look to stationary that is funkier, like invitations to cocktail parties or different sizes of wedding cards.

Wedding stationary centers around the wording on the wedding cards in addition to the wedding stationary itself. In fact, the wording of the stationary can help convey the tone and style of your wedding without you having to tell a single guest! In addition, having improper wording on your stationary even if – or especially when – the wedding stationary is absolutely gorgeous in appearance gives guests a negative first impression of your wedding, so do your stationary wording homework!