How much do you know your WEDDING? Part 2 Wedding Card

How much do you know your WEDDING?  Part 2 Invitation Card


Invitation Card
Every wedding couple will need to start with a list of who will be your guess at your wedding dinner. Before you start inviting your friends or families to your wedding dinner, you definitely send out invitation to your friends. So, an invitation card is quite important for a wedding couple.

An invitation card is an image about your wedding which will show how grand it will be. Sometimes, it will show out how your personality is as well. How do you start to get to choose your wedding invitation card? Have you read my Part 1? Click "HERE"!

Nowadays, birthday cards and new year cards comes in a lot of design for you to choose from. If you have a good budget for your wedding, you can definitely have custom made invitation cards. For the more traditional Chinese invitation card, for sure it will come in shades of Red, Pink or Gold colour as the base colour and definitely a must have for the words, "喜喜". This mandarin word is actually a combination of two "喜" together, which means "Double Happiness" and auspicious life filled with joyful mood together for the wedding couple.

For a western styled wedding invitation card, there is also quite a lot of design to choose from. For me, I will choose the western wedding invitation style because I like that there is something special about it. They don't have any specification for the designs. You can choose whatever you want or follow back the theme, this is what I like about it.

The last wedding invitation card design is nice right? Is Timonthy & Audrey 's wedding invitation card. Their wedding theme is "UP", if you have watched Disney's Pixar animation "UP", you will know why the invitation card is so colourful and the lovely couple is sitting in a hot air balloon! You can click into their blog and read more about their wedding preparation.

A wedding invitation card is not just invite of your friends or families to your wedding dinner. It also includes writting of personal information of the bride and groom in order to let their guess know and remember who is getting married and where are they having the venue and where do they come from. On the invitation cards, it will also include the time, date of marriage and address of the venue. Some wedding invitation cards includes a menu of food served at the place.

Chinese information format

For Chinese, you will definitely received this kind of wedding invitation card before.

This is some summary note.

Take note of following etiquette: 
1. Specify the date of the wedding in both gregorian/solar and Chinese/lunar calendar form.
2. List the day of the week in parenthesis.
3. Precede the bride and groom's names with their birth order among siblings.

For example: Eldest son Second daughter Youngest son
4. The characters for "welcome" should be in larger font than rest of text.

Western information format~

To be honest, all the format is actually quite similar, just the typesetting is different. I believe now you will know how to prepare a wedding invitation card after reading this.

To be continue! Stay Tuned~

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