If custom wedding stationery is one of your priorities in the wedding planning process, you’re sure to want to make it stand out from the crowd. Standard designs are abundant in this day and age, so to really find personalized wedding stationery, you’ll need to hire a professional wedding stationer to help you cut through the noise and create something unique to you. Here at Dodeline, that’s our favorite kind of project!
There are so many ways to make your custom wedding invitations showstoppers. These are just a few of the ideas you might consider:
10 Custom Wedding Stationery Ideas
1. Design a custom crest
By custom crest, we don’t just mean the kind you buy off Etsy. We mean truly exploring a custom crest process with a professional designer, where the florals, the motifs, the colors and everything are fully considered. Some of the things we have incorporated into custom wedding crests in the past include pets, venues or other special locations, hobbies like fishing or golf, the wedding date, specific flowers from the reception design or that have special meaning ,and so much more.
2. Include a watercolor wedding map
It’s likely you spent considerable time and effort selecting your wedding destination and city. It’s also quite possible that the wedding isn’t just one event – there might be a welcome party, brunch, and even other events like pickleball tournaments and bridesmaid luncheons.
A watercolor wedding map is a great way to make the custom wedding stationery 100% unique to you – designed in your style, colors, and with your desired locations. Nothing gives guests a true picture of the weekend quite like incorporating a custom wedding map into your personalized wedding stationery.
3. Stay away from trendy colors
This is a tough one! We all end up falling into trends in some way or another, and there is nothing wrong with that at all. But if you really want your custom wedding invitations to stand apart from the rest, do your best to avoid trendy color palettes.
4. Use bold typography
Nine times out of ten, wedding clients opt to be a little more traditional with their font selections. Colors are a lot more likely to be nontraditional than the typography. So if you want to really play up the uniqueness, consider straying from the more typical block font + script names font scheme.
5. Send in a colored envelope or even better – a box!
Think about the first impression of your custom wedding stationery: it’s how it looks in the mailbox! If it’s in the budget, consider truly unique options like sending in a custom box or a dimensional envelope. That ups the postage cost quite a bit, though, so if that isn’t in the budget, making the envelope an unusual color is another great way to personalize your wedding stationery further.
6. Embrace the option to incorporate shapes
Printing and cutting options have evolved so much even just in the last 5 years. The option to create different shapes for your wedding invitation cards is much more accessible than it used to be. Consider really maximizing that option by doing something totally unique to you – maybe one of the cards is in the shape of one of your pets? Maybe you’re really into music so you have an RSVP card shaped like a record? The possibilities are endless!
7. Think about the enclosure
Wrapping the invitation in ribbon, paper bands, gatefold wraps and more are all options these days. It allows for further personalization to your custom wedding stationery beyond just the cards themselves. With the embellishments, you’re really curating the experience of opening the invitation, so it’s a great place to get creative and lean into some more unusual options.
8. Go all in on your interests
Beyond a custom crest, you could really dive headfirst into embracing your hobbies or shared experiences as a couple. For example, this bride had a longstanding love affair with fairy tales. She chose her wedding venue for that exact reason, so we incorporated motifs from well known fairy tales into her save the date. Truly one of a kind!
9. Throw back to tradition
In a weird way, sometimes the most unusual thing you could do would be to go back to the traditional looks. When everyone is going for bold color and shapes, a classic black and ecru invitation could actually be the thing that stands out the most. It certainly stands the test of time, to say the least!
10. Change up the paper
Much like the typography, there aren’t many people who are willing to go so far outside of the timeless classics as to use a colored paper for the wedding invitation. If you want to stand out, that’s a quick and easy way to do it!
To create something truly unique but also well done and elegant, you’ll want to enlist a professional wedding stationer as part of your vendor team. A stationer can help you make sure you curate the ideas that will result in a well designed custom wedding invitation.
At Dodeline, we’ve been designing custom wedding stationery since 2009, and we would love to help you with yours! Reach out anytime @dodelinedesign or info@dodelinedesign.com.
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