Simple Steps for Humanizing your Wedding Invitations

Owing to the fact that wedding invitations are the primary introduction your invitees will have to the mood, attitude, and style of your wedding, be absolutely certain that your invitations are as informative and unique as your wedding is slotted to be. Learn from these easy steps, and you'll be humanizing your invitations in no time.

It's nearly impossible to get more personal than a photograph, illustration, caricature, or picture of yourselves. Photographs are purported to be tasteless, classless, informal, and not as appropriate for weddings. Silhouettes, then, are the solution. Silhouettes were pioneered as a great solution because they're classy, posh, contemporary, minimalist - and the best part - still personal.

They're antique and old-fashioned, and they speak to your personalities without being overt or overly literal. Silhouettes are used in several high-profile actors' wedding invitations because of their movie star appeal and Hollywood imagery. Feel like the stars with your own silhouettes in your invitations.

Another way of humanizing your invitations is to include lines from your favorite love poem. A good line from a Walt Whitman, Edgar Allan Poe, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, or T.S. Elliott poem can evoke images of the deepest, sublime beauty and love in its listeners. Use symbols, wax seals, doodles, insignias, illustrations, monograms, or other sacred signifiers to set apart the poetry from the rest of the invite. It's important to separate message from massage. That old line is popular in certain advertising circles because of the viewer's need to have a certain message and a certain emotional massage. Both together work wonders on wedding invitations.

A third way of humanizing your invitations is to skip the computer all together and handwrite the text of your invitation. Scan it into the computer on high resolution, and your invitations will rock themselves silly with personal, relaxed, warm appeal. The invitations will almost beckon to your guests. Recipients will be pleased to see your handwriting, especially if they know you personally. It will be kind of like a personal invite just to them, and that's special under any circumstances. Plus, everyone will feel special about coming. People dislike computer-generated text on some sub-conscious level when they're supposed to be receiving a personal wedding invitation.

A fourth way of personalizing your wedding invitations is by including a real signature of you and your spouse at the end of the message that's in your own handwriting and was not scanned into the computer. The last point is critical. Use a real ink pen and personally sign each and every invitation. There will only be about 200 so it won't take more than an hour or so.
By Jeff Fain


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