Rules for Wedding Shower Invitations
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by: ginathompson
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My best friend and I recently threw a wedding shower for a college friend. We thought it would be fun and different to create the wedding shower invitations from scratch. We considered ourselves pretty creative people. We got lots of practice sewing and bedazzling things on the cheap, since we were in a sorority. We took that confidence and started off on our adventure to make the perfect wedding shower invitations. Given our experience, I thought it would be helpful to put together a list of tips for those of you embarking on the same journey.
Make sure the bride is okay with giving you full creative license with the wedding shower invitations and the shower. That does not entail spoiling the secret or giving away all the details. Some prospective brides have been thinking about their wedding day all their lives and also have a set vision of what the shower should look like. I personally feel that brides like that should have to throw their own showers. You can move onto the design phase if you already know the bride is cool with you doing whatever you want.
There are a million different designs for wedding shower invitations, so I am not going to babble on about what you can make. If you have a special theme for the shower, your invitations will probably tie into that. If a more traditional shower is planned, then just make wedding shower invitations that are fun, groovy, gorgeous or memorable (or all four).
Now, listen closely, because this next paragraph is what is most important. The meat of your wedding shower invitations, the information inside that tells people what to do and where to go, should be proofread many times. I like to have a person who has not been knee deep in the invitation making factory take a look at it. I have seen lots of tips that say your invitations should be written in proper British English. Unless Sir Elton John is on the guest list, I think this is superfluous. Just make sure your spelling and grammar are correct. Assure that you have the correct date, time and year on your invitations. Verify the location name and the address. Attach some directions if you know the address is confusing or does not make sense when you mapquest it. Be clear on the invitation that guests should RSVP with a yes or no. Some people assume you do not need to RSVP if you are not going to attend. Conversely, there are plenty of people that assume you know they are coming unless they tell you no. This makes planning difficult. No matter what you do, you will have a couple guests that forgot to RSVP and come anyway or those who do not show up after RSVPing. But, by making it explicit on the wedding shower invitations, you increase your odds of a good headcount tremendously. Having a clear RSVP statement, however, will give you a better chance with planning. Most people assume "shower" means only women, so if men are invited, be sure to be clear about that on the invitation somewhere too. The last thing is to provide some guidelines for the attendees on dress and gifts, if the shower has a theme. "Wear your best and brightest Hawaiian garb."
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