Interesting invitations

Em88

I am getting married next April and the time has come to think about invitations. We are only having a small wedding, around 20 people, all of whom know they are invited and most have already booked their flights and hotels thus it doesn't seem to make sense in bothering with invitations if they are just going to be a normal piece of paper setting out the details (not that there is anything wrong with that kind of invitation and we would definitely have had them had we had lots to invite).

We would love to do something a bit different for our invitations. We love the wedding tea towels but they are quite a lot of money (work out at over £100 for 20 invitations :eek:). I've just seen a chocolate bar with the wedding details on the back of the wrapper and quite like that idea too :rotfl:

Can anyone suggest any other interesting ways of doing our wedding invitations? All suggestions greatly appreciated

fawny

Hi,

Cool love the idea of the t towels:D but expensive as you say. We are getting married in Lindos in September & have passport invitations with luggage tags for the RSVP. They were made by this lady & are great. http://www.weddinginvitations.org.uk/intro.htmIt was the same with us a lot of people have already booked but just wanted to do something formal.

Jewelleryfan

My friend had a small wedding and they made a DVD as an invite. They used a video camera and shot a film of them inviting everyone personally and burned them on disc. Hardly cost anything and was very personal

MaggieBaking

I've seen message in a bottle ones.

If I were you at this time of year you could make Christmas decorations into an invitation. Like a small wreath, with a hanging circular piece of paper inside with the details on? I think you can buy personalised baubles - perhaps with pictures of the two of you and the wedding date?

If it's an abroad wedding it could be quite fun to get passport covers - then when you open it up you could have your invitation details inside? I've seen luggage tag wedding invitations which is a similar idea.

As for the chocolate idea, there's lots of advice around the forums on how to make personalised chocolate... Ie, you need a mould, some white chocolate and an icing bag and write the date backwards... Pour milk/dark chocolate over the writing and when you pop it out, voila! (Then you can wrap it up in your paper with more information on it?

Those are some very random ideas, I'm sure a google search would be a bit more polished :rotfl:

emz118

I would (I think) send everyone a passport cover in my wedding colours... they are less than £2 on ebay and if you ordered a job lot you could get a discount also.
I would pop the information inside, on a card the same size as a passport would be, wrap it up, and then put a tag on saying something like "This may come in handy in April!"
Ooooh... wish I could do this! Hehe!
xXx

Em88

Thanks for the suggestions so far. I should clarify although lots of people are flying it's not actually in another country; we are getting married in Edinburgh but live in london, many of our guests live on the south coast so most are flying as its much quicker than driving.

I love the idea of making chocolate slabs and writing the details on. I am a huge chocolate fan!! heehee, although OH has pointed out that if we are sending chocolate as invitations I wouldn't be able to eat it. haha

nikkiemac8

we just got ours in the post, we made our invites into an old fashioned movie ticket and got them printer free at vistaprint and they are awesome.

MaggieBaking

It's a 60 page thread so there'll be lots of tips in here for how to get it neat and temper chocolate etc

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/638019

The nice thing is when they open it they'll expect the wrapper to be the personalised bit - the inside will be a nice surprise!

mansi_2

For my friends wedding they registered in an online wedding planner which made all the works related to wedding and purchased the wedding dress for bride and groom very easy way, really its very useful and the services also nice everyone in that ceremony could enjoy the day.

sugarwalsh

When my first son was born my sister was in Canada. She sent me a whole box of Hershey chocolate bars which had new wrappers on. It read 'Hereheis' in stead of hershey, the sell by date was his d.o.b, where he was born were the 'manufacturers address', the 'weight' of the bar was his weight etc.

They were totally amazing - I bet you could do something similar - is there a chocolate bar where you could alter the name or indeed has the same name as the place you are marrying etc?

Or perhaps scottish shortbread tins?

Megan