Wedding day stationery occupies a tricky spot in the planning process. On one hand, it is a relatively small element of your wedding as a whole–at least when compared with things like the dress, the flowers, the food, and the venue. On the other hand, the napkins, menus, place cards, programs, and other printed items that your guests encounter at your wedding and reception have the power to truly take the event to another level.
Here are the top three benefits we can think of that you gain when you have your wedding day stationery professionally designed and printed. As you begin the process of choosing save the dates and wedding invitations, we’ll make sure you don’t forget to include the stationery for the big day itself as well!
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Accuracy
There is one hugely important fact that is easy to forget when it comes to the printed materials that appear at your wedding: you will probably need to make changes to them late in the game! Whether we’re talking about rearrangements of the program order, adding or removing items from the bar menu, or adding guests whose RSVP status changes unexpectedly, you want to leave yourself the option to make those changes without a lot of extra work…and expense!
If you print these materials with an independent print provider, your options will be quite restricted. Between the lead time for your project and the expense of throwing out your outdated stationery and printing a new updated batch, you could get stuck on the big day with materials that have incorrect information on them, or being unable to shift things around the way you would like.
By working with Dodeline Design for both your wedding invitations and your wedding day stationery, you have much more freedom to make adjustments, and we wait as long as possible to print your materials and still have them ready in time for the ceremony to begin.
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Coordination
What’s the best way to make sure that the style of your wedding and reception perfectly matches the style of your save the dates and invitations that were sent out months earlier? You guessed it–having them all designed and printed by the same studio. You’ll be able to bring everything together with the same fonts, the same colors, and the same illustrations that your guests have been seeing in your beautiful invitations for weeks, and when you put everything together as a keepsake, you’ll be glad that all the wedding stationery works together and beautifully complements each other!
Let’s be honest–there are a lot of service providers and vendors to communicate with during the wedding planning process, and just the ability to have your wedding invitation design, wedding day stationery, and thank-you notes all handled by the same designer is a huge benefit in itself. Streamline the process and let our experts do what they do best to make everything look incredible.
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Special Extras
When you meet with our designers to discuss what you’d like to print for your wedding day, you are in for a lot of surprises! In our years of working with couples, we have come up with quite a few great ideas for delighting your guests and giving them amazing ways to remember the special occasion for the rest of their lives.
Customized cocktail stirrers are just one example–a small touch, but one that really helps the guests celebrate the happy couple during the reception in a different way! One of our other favorite projects was the full color customized napkin below, which reminded guests of the special place that the bride’s dog still held in her new home.
Producing all of your wedding stationery with the same custom wedding invitations design studio just makes sense. Better than that, however, it also makes a beautiful, artistic, and completely coordinated suite of materials that span from the save the date all the way through your eye-catching thank-you notes that show up in your guests’ mailboxes after the wedding. If you’d like to hear more of our great ideas for wedding stationery and browse our collection of samples, just get in touch with us. In-person and virtual consultations are available, and we can’t wait to meet you and start designing your stationery with you!
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