It might seem crazy to find yourself hiring a wedding invitations designer, but as you dive more into wedding planning, you will probably realize you need all the help you can get! Most people have busy lives on a normal day, but throw in planning a full blown gala for 100 or more of your closest friends, and you suddenly have nowhere near enough hours in the day.
An invitation designer is kind of like having your own personal graphic designer for the wedding. It’s about so much more than the wedding invitation card design!
If you find the right type of stationery company from the very beginning, you’ll have someone in your corner to help with all sorts of projects along the way. The save the date comes first, of course, and then the wedding invitations themselves. A few reasons you really need a wedding invitation designer for those pieces include…
- While you can look at printing those items yourself with online sources, you’re a little bit on your own there. Professional stationers know the ins and outs of etiquette, what’s proper and what’s popular, and they can offer advice on so many scenarios that come up with invitations (family matters & logistics are big ones!). They also often help you avoid making big mistakes!
- Another big reason to look for smaller stationery shops: did you know that most of the big well known online printers put their logo on your invitation?! While they often have pretty designs, the printing company’s logo has no place in your wedding invitation package, in our humble opinion.
- Full service options. If you’re studying for med school or moving or in a super busy phase of life like most of our clients are, you might want a bit more of a full service shop. Smaller stationery studios like Dodeline will take care of everything, all the way down to mailing the invitations, if that’s what you would like.
Once the invitations and save the dates are done, you might think you’re all set and don’t need a wedding invitation designer after that. Think again! After those are done, though, there are quite a lot of miscellaneous projects for which you may very well need a graphics person.
A few examples include….
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Wedding Programs
Of necessity, these are designed and printed close to the wedding. So even if your plan is wing it and print them at an office supply store, that’s not as easy as it sounds if you don’t have experience with print layouts, fonts, and more. Plus, if you are hoping to have a gorgeous flat lay photo, it’s better if the fonts and paper color all coordinate with the wedding invitation card design.
Menus
Even if your reception is stations or a buffet, it can be nice to have a menu at each place setting. It lets your guests know what their options are! A thoughtfully designed menu can also really make a place setting, so again you’ll want it to be properly scaled, well laid out, and coordinated.
If you choose a stationery company like Dodeline, you’ll find you can even personalize these menus with the entrée the guest selected (if pre-selected is what you’re doing), the guest name, and more.
Seating Charts
This is the very last thing you want to print if you can help it, as doing a seating chart board means changes are not easy to make. However, they are the more economical method of assigning seats and also efficient in terms of space needed.
It’s a huge job just to figure out who sits where, and the last thing you want to do while you’re trying to catch a flight to the wedding destination is figure out how to make it look good + where to print it in the final days before the wedding. Having a graphic designer who specializes in these types of needs will be an even bigger relief at that stage!
Signage and Décor
Unless it’s something you do often, figuring out how to print signage and other items at the right size for your frames / stands / what-have-you might not be as easy as it seems. If you plan to have lots of little touches like that, it also produces a much better result if the fonts, colors, and motifs remain consistent throughout. Having an invitation designer on board who knows what your style is and has all the graphics at the ready makes it so everything will coordinate flawlessly!
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These are just a few of the reasons you’ll want to have a stationer on your vendor team when planning your Big Day. Have questions? Comment below – we’re happy to help!
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