Showing posts with label invitation questions. Show all posts
Showing posts with label invitation questions. Show all posts
Discover the Hidden Benefit of DIY: Saving Money!
One of the benefits of using a Do It Yourself (DIY) approach to bridal planning, is it allows you to infuse your wedding with your own, unique personality. Clever brides have been putting together gorgeous, hand crafted wedding materials for decades: dresses, table decorations, flowers, guest books and most especially wedding stationery.
However, in today's world, probably the most important reason to consider using a DIY approach is budget. Rather than the average $25-27,000 price tag, your costs will be a fraction of that. You can save literally thousands of dollars by thinking outside the "hire someone" box. Here is a trend that may surprise you: brides on every area of the economic spectrum are doing it themselves.
The reason is simple: the more input and effort you put into your wedding plans the more it will be a reflection of you and your groom. Your guests will appreciate the personal touch.
DIY Creates Memories
Invite your bridesmaids, parents, in-laws, family and friends over for a for a wedding favor party; In which I provide a relaxed atmosphere and include essential materials in the cost.
So book now! Email: Mrsdstahl@yahoo.com
Assign each person something to do, such as tying on ribbons or placing the favors in pretty bags. Pour the wine and have a pre-wedding soiree. Whether your team is making favors or addressing envelopes. Sharing the load is a wonderful way to make memories. To let the fun continue after the reception and honeymoon, invite your wedding party over for a scrapbooking get together. They will love helping you piece together pictures and mementos of your special day and honeymoon...and you will be thrilled with the results.
DIY Brings Out Your Creative Side
Think you need to hire a wedding coordinator to take the lead on these ideas? Think again. Once you start looking into some of these ideas, you'll be surprised how quickly inspiration strikes!
Use Your Contacts
If you have a cousin who is a gourmand, consider asking him to help make some of your reception food ahead of time and freezing it. If you're lucky enough to have a grandmother who sews, see if she's willing to work with you to create your own, custom wedding gown.
Ask around, you'll be surprised how many contacts you really have. Many will be delighted to help you with wedding projects; in fact, they will feel flattered and consider it a wedding gift. It takes a village to raise a child, but the same village can chip in and help with your DIY wedding.
Get Started Now!
And consider yourself warned: Doing it yourself is addictive. Once you see the possibilities for one element of your wedding, you'll want to do more and more and more. Make your wedding truly special, unique...and one hundred percent you.
Wedding Invitation Questions
The beauty of a wedding celebration is each gathering of merriment has a unique personality as special and sometimes just as complex fashioned by all in attendance.
Part of my service in providing beautiful, modern, wedding invitations also includes the accessibility to answer your Shower, Save the Dates, Invitation, Announcement and Thank You concerns.
As a new bride I am sure you are filled with query and concerns about all things concerning your wedding requests.
Unique situations call for unique solutions.
Below are common questions asked and answers that many brides before you have looked to solve. If you have any simple or even unique questions you would like to pose feel free to email me and I will be sure to get an answer for you.
1. When coworkers assume they'll be invited to the wedding.
1. When coworkers assume they'll be invited to the wedding.
It is very rude to expect to be invited to a wedding, let alone hint to the bride about your expectation. Shame on your co-worker. Typically co-workers are not invited unless they are close friends. Simply tell those in your office that you'd just love to invite everyone you know but you have such a large family and a limited budget that you simply cannot invite coworkers. But, I would only do this if asked directly.
2. Proper etiquette for inviting coworkers to wedding
That is strange and unfair company policy. It may be best not to invite coworkers. But, if you do, you are expected to treat them like all other guests. They receive their own invitation and all significant others are invited as well.
3. Timing your Invitations Right. What is the best time to send out invitations.
Sending invitations out too early or too late can be a major wedding faux pas. We send invitations about two months before the wedding. Plans can and do change and it isn't polite to burden our guests with those changes. If you are worried guests will need an abundant heads up you can always opt to send out save the dates.
4. Information Wedding & Reception - Appropriate to Address in Invitation?
5. Couple paying for wedding. Who receives RSVP's?
Traditionally, responses would have gone to your mother, as her and your father would have been host. But, this is not the case anymore, especially in your case. The responses should go to the person keeping track of them, which would be you.
6. Civil wedding already took place now having church wedding.
7. Who makes the wedding guest list?
8. Combining wedding announcement and invitation.
9. Addressing an invitation to a legally separated, but not divorced guest?
In the old fashion etiquette world, you would use the title "Mrs." either way. But, today we can use which ever title she chooses. Most likely, she would prefer "Ms.” But, you could ask her.
10. Proper Invitation Wording for Divorced Bride.
You should use your legal name, the one that everyone knows. Anyone who is close enough to you to invite to your wedding should recognize your name. Your fiancé might not like seeing your ex-husband’s name on his wedding invitation but, if it is your name, then that is the name you'll use.
11. Should church coordinator be invited to rehearsal dinner and reception?
12. Do groom's parents get a wedding invitation?
Yes, all guests will be sent an invitation including parents and bridal party.
How much time should guests be given to respond to wedding invitations
Normally you need to turn in your guest count to the caterer 3 to 4 weeks in advance of the wedding.
13. Husband/Wife military rank on invitations.
You could list the branch only if you are on active duty. If you are on active duty, it would be listed under your name
14. Including directions in a wedding invitation
15. When are thank you notes considered late?
You generally have 2 weeks to one month (some stretch it to 2 months) to get a thank you note in the mail before it's considered rude. And a good rule of thumb is you can't use or display the gift until the thank you note is sent!
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