For many couples, their wedding day is the most important day of their life. It’s a time when they can get all their friends and family together to celebrate their union.

Remembering this special day in years to come is paramount, and the best and most popular way to do this is with wedding photo albums and wedding guest books.

More couples are deciding to choose the option of having their wedding photo albums and wedding guest books handmade in a beautifully constructed way. Being attracted by the fact that many companies now offer personalised touches and can combine them with the rest of the decor from the wedding, future brides and grooms choose to use these services.

Working in conjunction with couples, many businesses make the wedding photo albums and wedding guest books with their clients in mind, catering to their exact needs and requirements.

A wedding photo album can be decorated using a number of different styles, from floral designs including Triple Rose and Two Lilies, to Shells and Twisted Hearts. Each is elegantly put together into a book, which will include around 40 pages to put your photographs in and 20 tissue-like paper sheets to preserve them.

The wedding photo albums usually come in several sizes; small (around 16cm x 23cm), medium (around 20cm x 25cm) and large (around 28cm x 32cm).

Brides and grooms can choose from a number of different colours, to match the theme of their wedding. They can choose everything from the colour of the book itself to the text included within it.

Wedding guest books are not necessarily an item most couples will instantly remember to purchase, but they are a fantastic way of remembering the day.

They are, traditionally, a way for guests to voice their well wishes to the couple and also for the bride and groom to look back over for years to come.

Again, wedding guest books can often be tailored to match the wedding decoration, and come in a variety of styles, such as Romance Circle, Rose Bud and Kris Kross. All are stunningly and carefully handcrafted to ensure the very best service.

The wedding guest books often come in a variety of sizes to match the needs of the customers and the colour scheme can be chosen to match that of the wedding.

They also usually include around 40 pages, so that every guest has the room to write their personal messages.

Using the same company to cater for all your wedding stationery needs is advisable, as they can incorporate your wedding theme into all the products they make. It can also be a very cost effective option, which of course is something vital when planning a wedding.

Wedding decorations run the gamut from elegantly simple to extravagantly grandiose, the deciding factor being not just the bridal couple’s budget but also their personal tastes and preferences.

Choosing a Wedding Theme

All aspects of the wedding day are intrinsically interwoven with each other. The kind of gown the bride chooses to wear, the venue decoration and several other decisions depend on location of the venue, which itself depends on what time of the year the wedding is being celebrated. Whether the wedding theme includes favorite flowers, colors or location, it reflects the individual taste and style of the bridal couple.

While an outdoor wedding is great in spring or summer and calls for a distinctly outdoors type of decor, a winter wedding is definitely an indoor-event and requires a completely different kind of decoration.

The full extent of the decoration requirements can be determined only after the theme is decided and the guest list is drawn up.

Navigating the Decorating Frontier

There are several aspects to be determined when choosing a location. Is the bridal couple personally undertaking the entire venue decorating including the chair covers? If the reception venue is a very popular one, is there adequate time for putting up elaborate decorations between the two events? Is the bridal couple allowed to put the decorations at least one day in advance? Does the venue provide any kind of decorations at all?

The décor requirements for outdoor weddings are completely different. Choose a naturally picturesque venue and you will have a splendid backdrop for all your wedding photographs with a minimum of decorating. When organizing an outdoor wedding it is important to have an alternate venue in the event of unexpected bad weather.

Impact of Choice of Venue & Decorations

Here are a few decorating suggestions for different types of wedding themes and different locations:
Seychelles Wedding: With emerald green waters and shimmery white sands, Seychelles is the perfect venue for a beach wedding. Blue, lime and ivory are the perfect choice of wedding colors for this wedding; they go well together and bring out the best in the natural surroundings. In the bridal gown as well as the floral arrangements and the rest of the décor, choose any one color as the main color and let the other two colors complement it wherever possible for an absolutely stunning effect!

Moroccan-Themed Wedding: A Moroccan ambience can be recreated with by introducing color ones of oranges, reds, yellows and blues. Mosaic candle holders with colored candles, stained-glass lanterns and plush fabric drapes in deep, dark shades work fabulously.

Spring Wedding: Spring is reminiscent of a profusion of colors in every hue; choosing just one or two can prove to be rather difficult. Pastel colors such as soft pinks, lilacs, sunshine yellows and leafy greens work well to infuse the wedding venue with the cheerfulness and airiness that is so evocative of spring. Choosing a base color of ivory or white and blending in two select spring colors will help when trying to match various elements of the wedding gown and the wedding stationery to the chair covers and the rest of the wedding décor.

The choice of decorations is what creates the desired ambience of the entire wedding.

Sending out handmade wedding invitations gives the bridal couple the opportunity to treat their guests to a totally unique and one-of-a-kind invite.

How handmade wedding invitations make a fabulous first impression

A once-in-a-lifetime affair, every bridal couple takes great pains to make sure everything is just picture-perfect on their wedding day. There are so many things to be attended to and preparations are started several months ahead. There’s the bridal gown, the venue, decoration for the venue, the guest list, caterers, bartenders; the list is endless. No matter how elaborate the plans are or no matter how early the preparations are started, the action till now is still all behind-the-scenes and involves only family and close friends.

The first real inkling the rest of the guests have about the wedding will be from the wedding invitation. It is essentially the first point of contact between guest and the wedding and offers the wedding guests a ’sneak-peak’ at what’s coming up.

Handmade invitations are customized to suit the wedding theme as well as the couple’s style; they set the tone for the wedding. A guest who looks at the wedding invite will immediately form an impression of what to expect at the wedding and customized hand-made wedding invitations create the most fabulous first impression of all.

Significance of Handmade Wedding Invitations

Giving a guest a handmade invitation creates a powerful impact on the guest. It says that despite all the other preparations, the bridal couple had taken time out to create a special invite for every guest. A handmade wedding invite makes every guest feel special.

A handmade wedding invitation to every guest is a way of saying you care for each and every guest individually and you’d feel honored to have them grace your special occasion.

Most bridal couples realize the impact handmade wedding invites can create and despite hectic schedules, more and more couples are taking the time to make handmade invitations for a fabulous first-impression.

Handmade Wedding Invitations as Keepsakes

Every handmade wedding invite is like a miniature work of art. With several personalizing options available including custom types of paper, styles of ribbon, shapes, fonts and graphic designs there are endless possibilities for reflecting the couple’s creativity and their personal styles.

When you give out unique handmade wedding invites, your guests are not going to toss it away like they do most store-bought invites. Handmade wedding invites are more likely to be treasured and given a place of honor among other memorabilia in the guest’s home. More and more bridal couples feel it’s surely worth taking the time and trouble over something that they know is going to last forever.

Handmade Photo Wedding Invitations

Handmade photo wedding invitations are not just unique; they are ‘You-nique’. Most bridal couples love the idea of photo wedding invitations because they are the most unique idea of all. Guests are unlikely to ever find a similar invite anywhere else; no matter where they look. Handmade photo wedding invitations can be customized using the chosen photograph and wordings as well as the chosen font. The picture type could be black-and-white, colored, sepia or antique and the color of the card could be taken from the wedding colors or from the photograph itself. The end-result- a handmade wedding invite like no other!

It is the ultra- uniqueness of handmade wedding invitations as well as the powerful message it conveys that make them far more popular than any store bought wedding invite.

Sure, there are plenty of ideas for hosting the most unique wedding day ever. Ideas can range from saying “I Do” while flying miles above ground in a hot air balloon to saying “I Do” while dodging colorful shoals of fish underwater. Of course you could always book a chartered flight for family and friends and fly half way across the world to pledge eternal love at that most famous symbol of eternal love; the Taj Mahal. While these are certainly unique and exciting ideas, the sheer logistics of organizing the wedding would be completely overwhelming, unless you were a Donald Trump or a Tom Cruise.

That does not mean however that you have to give up your dream completely. With unique reception décor, you can still have a wedding that’s truly one of a kind even if you have a more grounded reception. Be sure to start making your plans months in advance so that you are not completely tied up in knots as your wedding day draws nigh.

Unique Winter Wedding Reception Décor

If you are planning on getting married in winter, deviate from the normal Christmas themed wedding décor and do something radically different. How about snowflakes?

Snowflakes make the perfect theme for a frosty winter wedding. For a great introduction to your wedding, you could start off with elegant, snowflake-shaped wedding invitations.

For the venue décor, get table linen and chair covers with snowflake patterns embossed or embroidered all over. Including small crystal snowflakes to your flower centrepieces and vases with etched snowflakes or snowflake confetti sprinkled around the centrepieces would tie the wedding decor elements together perfectly. And for that perfect ending, let your guests take home elegant crystal or china snowflake ornaments as a keepsake of your momentous occasion.

Unique Dual Color Wedding Reception Décor

Dual color weddings are hot and happening right now. Not meant for traditionalists at heart, dual colors infuse the wedding atmosphere with an oomph and pizzazz hitherto unseen in more conventional weddings.

A combination of pink and orange is trendy and modern. Choose pink as the main colour think pink chair cover, pink table linen and bouquets of pink flowers. Then break the monotony of the pink with splashes of orange as in orange sashes for the chairs, orange table runners and a few orange rose buds carefully mixed in with the pink bouquet. Orange candles wrapped in pink gauze make perfect table décor items and can be used as wedding favors at the end of the reception.

A perfect blend of fire and ice, aqua and red is another excellent color combination for a unique wedding décor for winter as well as summer weddings. Other popular combinations are slate and lime; pink and brown or citrus and lime green.
For a wedding reception idea that is truly unique, break away from tradition and give free reign to your creative instincts. Going with your personality rather than traditional diktats will ensure that your wedding reception is truly like no other.

Having a wedding that’s different from everybody else’s is something that almost all bridal couples dream about. It is the most special days of their lives and they want it to be an event that people will be talking about for years to come.

While personalizing your wedding day can be an undoubtedly expensive and time-consuming affair, it is one way to set it apart and ensure that it is truly one of a kind.

Here are a few suggestions and decorating ideas for personalizing your wedding and making it unique.

Monogramming

The traditional practice of monogramming is great for personalizing your wedding day. Incorporating the bride and groom’s intertwined initials on everything, from the chair covers and table runners to the wedding favors put a distinctly personal touch to the whole event. Do not forget to include the monogram into the wedding invitations and all the other wedding stationery as well. Personalized invitations and stationery and personalized wedding favors reveal your exacting attention to your detail from start to finish.

Get accessories such as your hand bag and cufflinks monogrammed and you will have some wonderful family heirlooms that you can pass down for generations. You can even get the bridal couple’s initials worked into the bride’s long veil for a look that’s ultra-coordinated.

Personalizing Your Wedding Day with Colors

The key to personalizing your wedding day with colors is to use color not to overwhelm but to add surprising accents. To personalize an all-white wedding you can either go with the monogramming or you could choose any one color and incorporate tiny bits of this color into unexpected places. Pretty pale blue pair of shoes that peek out every once in a while when the hem of the gown is lifted; a few stems of blue roses interspersed in the all-white bouquet, light blue candles strewn everywhere add delightful personalizing accents. Complementary or contrasting, the color combination of your wedding reception is yours to choose. To avoid a look that  is unnecessarily loud, remember to always use the lighter color as the all-over color and use the darker color as an accent color.

Using photographs to Personalize Your Wedding Day

Incorporating the bridal couple’s photograph into the wedding décor means you’ll have a wedding that is truly and completely unique. Once you’ve chosen the photograph that you wish to use you can choose colors from the photograph and use those as your wedding colors. Sepia photographs have an old-world look and feel and are a great way to personalize a traditional style wedding.

Colors, candles, flowers and photographs; the sky’s the limit when it comes to ideas for personalizing your wedding day. The best place to look for inspiration to kick-start your imagination is the internet where many wedding organizers showcase the best of the best. Borrow their ideas, add  your own unique detailing and you can be sure your wedding will truly be the only one of its type.

Alongside your wedding invitations and place settings, wedding menu cards are a key item, not to be forgotten when organising the stationery for your big day.

Wedding menu booklets promise to be a tasteful addition to the rest of your carefully selected stationary and table decorations.

Wedding menu cards give guests an idea of what is going to be served on the day and they then have the chance to decide beforehand, which option they want to choose. It can also inform guests if vegetarian or gluten free alternatives will be available.

Couples often order their wedding menu stationery at the same time as their invitations, place names cards and other stationery items required. This will often ensure that all your wedding stationery items will arrive together at the same time, leaving you one less thing to worry about.

When ordered together, you are guaranteed that all the stationery will all feature the same designs.

Many people choose their wedding menu stationery to reflect the style and theme of their wedding. Whether it will be a formal or casual affair, the perfect wedding menu stationery can be tailored to your individual needs, to reflect and accent the nature of your ceremony.

Choosing a sturdy, card-based material is a wise choice when deciding on a style for your wedding menu stationery as it will hold up better and they will stand up on their own when placed on the tables.

Standard wedding menu booklets are usually A5 in size, with a three page insert and can include personalised printing on the front cover. They are decorated with your chosen design to co-ordinate with the rest of your chosen stationery.

It may also be a good idea to frame the menu cards after use and they can be used as extra wedding favours for guests.

For that extra personal touch, DIY kits are available from most wedding stationery companies.

These kits contain all you need to recreate the stationery design of your choice by hand whilst holding onto that professional finish.

This time saving and innovative method takes the hard work out of making your own stationery whilst still being affordable.

Wedding invitations and stationery packs can be organised and ordered quickly and easily online.

Sending out handmade wedding invitations gives the bridal couple the opportunity to treat their guests to a totally unique and one-of-a-kind invite.

How handmade wedding invitations make a fabulous first impression

A once-in-a-lifetime affair, every bridal couple takes great pains to make sure everything is just picture-perfect on their wedding day. There are so many things to be attended to and preparations are started several months ahead. There’s the bridal gown, the venue, decoration for the venue, the guest list, caterers, bartenders; the list is endless. No matter how elaborate the plans are or no matter how early the preparations are started, the action till now is still all behind-the-scenes and involves only family and close friends.

The first real inkling the rest of the guests have about the wedding will be from the wedding invitation. It is essentially the first point of contact between guest and the wedding and offers the wedding guests a ’sneak-peak’ at what’s coming up.

Handmade invitations are customized to suit the wedding theme as well as the couple’s style; they set the tone for the wedding. A guest who looks at the wedding invite will immediately form an impression of what to expect at the wedding and customized hand-made wedding invitations create the most fabulous first impression of all.

Significance of Handmade Invitations

Giving a guest a handmade invitation creates a powerful impact on the guest. It says that despite all the other preparations, the bridal couple had taken time out to create a special invite for every guest. A wedding invite makes every guest feel special.

An invitation to every guest is a way of saying you care for each and every guest individually and you’d feel honored to have them grace your special occasion.

Most bridal couples realize the impact unique wedding invites can create and despite hectic schedules, more and more couples are taking the time to make handmade invitations for a fabulous first-impression.

Handmade Wedding Invitations as Keepsakes

Every handmade invite is like a miniature work of art. With several personalizing options available including custom types of paper, styles of ribbon, shapes, fonts and graphic designs there are endless possibilities for reflecting the couple’s creativity and their personal styles.

When you give out unique wedding invites, your guests are not going to toss it away like they do most store-bought invites. The wedding invites are more likely to be treasured and given a place of honor among other memorabilia in the guest’s home. More and more bridal couples feel it’s surely worth taking the time and trouble over something that they know is going to last forever.

Handmade Wedding Invitations

The invitations are not just unique; they are ‘You-nique’. Most bridal couples love the idea of handmade wedding invitations because they are the most unique idea of all. Guests are unlikely to ever find a similar invite anywhere else; no matter where they look. Handmade wedding invitations can be customized using the chosen design and wordings as well as the chosen font. The design type could be black-and-white, colored, sepia or antique and the color of the card could be taken from the wedding colors or from the venue itself. The end-result- a handmade wedding invite like no other!

It is the ultra- uniqueness of handmade wedding invitations as well as the powerful message it conveys that make them far more popular than any store bought wedding invite.

Every bridal couple dreams of having a wedding that is elegant, sophisticated and special in every way. Moreover, they’d like their wedding to reflect their own unique sense of style and will go to great lengths to plan every little detail from the wedding invitations to the bridal gown, from the wedding cake to the choice of venue and the decorations.

In any wedding decor planning, chair covers are a major styling issue and more and more importance is now being given to this decor detail. Wedding chair covers make a dramatic difference to the overall ambiance of any room. A room full of chairs draped in the wedding colours can transform any room from ordinary to extraordinary in an instant.

Swathed in ivory colored satin or pure white gossamer tulle, an ordinary plastic chair can be instantly transformed into an elegant seat fit for royalty. Adding an organza sash in the same shade will give the chair a regal look if you have one wedding color, whereas a sash in a complementary color can help bring your event colors together if you have a two-toned wedding. Match the table runners with the sashes and what you have is a room that is perfect in every way.

Sending out handmade wedding invitations gives the bridal couple the opportunity to treat their guests to a totally unique and one-of-a-kind invite.

How handmade wedding invitations make a fabulous first impression

A once-in-a-lifetime affair, every bridal couple takes great pains to make sure everything is just picture-perfect on their wedding day. There are so many things to be attended to and preparations are started several months ahead. There’s the bridal gown, the venue, decoration for the venue, the guest list, caterers, bartenders; the list is endless. No matter how elaborate the plans are or no matter how early the preparations are started, the action till now is still all behind-the-scenes and involves only family and close friends.

The first real inkling the rest of the guests have about the wedding will be from the wedding invitation. It is essentially the first point of contact between guest and the wedding and offers the wedding guests a ’sneak-peak’ at what’s coming up.

Handmade invitations are customized to suit the wedding theme as well as the couple’s style; they set the tone for the wedding. A guest who looks at the wedding invite will immediately form an impression of what to expect at the wedding and customized hand-made wedding invitations create the most fabulous first impression of all.

All bridal couples approach their wedding preparations quite differently from each other. Some couples decide that they would like to give their wedding an ultra-personal touch by doing everything themselves from creating handmade wedding invites to decorating the venue. Other couples prefer to delegate their wedding to experienced professionals in the field while they just supervise the overall preparations to make sure it meets their expectations.

Is any one way better than the other? Not really. Do-it-yourself wedding preparations give the wedding a warm, personal touch whereas professional wedding preparations help you achieve a perfectly coordinated look. Of course, a little bit of both would result in a wedding day that’s perfect in every way.