Guides
Invitation design.
How an invitation looks, and what that is quietly saying before a word of it is read. Composition, colour and type.
6 guides
- Sending your invitation in two languagesFor families who do not share one. What to translate, what to leave alone, and why one invitation works better than two.5 min read
- Choosing an invitation design, in five decisionsLayout, colour, type, paper and motion. What each one is quietly telling your guests, and the order to decide them in.5 min read
- Do digital invitations look cheap?The honest answer, and the four things that actually make one look it. Every one of them is a design decision rather than a fact about screens.5 min read
- Choosing colours for your invitationWhy most invitations are ivory, when to break that, and how to pick a palette that still looks right on a phone screen.5 min read
- Typefaces on an invitation, and what each one saysScript, serif or sans. Which face to use for the names, which for everything else, and the one mistake that makes an invitation look homemade.5 min read
- Should you put a photograph on your invitation?When a picture makes an invitation, when it makes it a postcard, and which photograph to actually use.5 min read
Make yours.
Six designs, your own words, and one link to send. Free to build, free for a day once it is live.
Start an invitationOther subjects
- WordingWhat to actually write, with lines you can take as they are.15 guides
- EtiquetteWhose name goes where, who has to be invited, and how to say no kindly.6 guides
- PlanningWhen each piece happens, and what has to be decided before it can.9 guides
- SendingGetting it into a hundred hands without a trip to the post office.9 guides
- RepliesHead counts, dietary needs, and the guests who never answer.7 guides
- OccasionsThe other days that need an invitation, from the engagement to the fiftieth.5 guides
