Wedding Invitation Trends for 2008

How to Choose Wedding InvitationsYour invitations give your guests the first glimpse of your event, they should know from looking at the invitations the type of wedding to expect, such as an outdoor garden wedding, black tie event, tropical adventure, or ethnic celebration. It can also reflect your personalities with a romantic, modern, traditional or nature themed look.

It is helpful to choose wedding color palette, such as earth tones, tropical brights, soft pastels, or metallics and neutrals and choose paper that fits in with your theme. Matching the color of your bridesmaid dresses and invitations is not necessary and almost impossible to match perfectly.

Wedding invitations trends

Many couples are choosing to 'Go Green' when they design and fashion their wedding invitations for the coming year, and are avoiding the traditional and predictable. Even classic lovers are trying it with a twist, mixing it up with color or a unique embellishment. Eco-chic options abound in a wide range of environment-friendly recycled stock, and handmade tree-free papers which can include botanical touches such as pressed leaves and flowers, or silk fibers woven into them. The most popular colors are now being inspired by elements of the earth, sea and sky.

Winter Weddings

This winter, onyx black is back as the color of chic sophistication, and when used with silver and snow white, it speaks volumes. Forest green and plum are also gorgeous in winter, perhaps paired with a jeweled brad or silky tassel for added glamour.

Spring Weddings

For a spring wedding in 2008, an invitation's color scheme can echo the colors of the blooming gardens with sky blue, leaf green and magnolia pink.

Summer Weddings

Summer brings hotter weather and high-voltage tints will be everywhere -especially apple green, aqua blue, bright yellow and sunset orange.

Fall Weddings

As autumn arrives the palette will mellow to saturated shades of rusted orange, deep scarlet and chocolate brown. Softer shades reflect the tones of the harvest season. Embellish your invitations with a translucent unryu sash and tuck in a skeleton leaf for a distinctive look.

The trend toward 'earth-friendly but sophisticated' continues when choosing materials for creating wedding invitations. Minimizing the amount of virgin paper used and selecting papers that are processed chlorine-free are two ways to show concern for the environment.

For further savings in resources and cost, the popular 'belly-band' appears in embroidered and brocaded fabrics or in handmade paper sashes of exotic design, and enables an elegant look without the added waste of an inner envelope. A reply postcard can be included in the packet, artfully wrapped or banded and slipped into one envelope.

Embellishments and color combining are what make an invitations unique and can help set the stage for a stylish and beautiful wedding.

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