It's All About Weddings: Personalized Save the Dates, Wedding Invitations and RSVP.

Save the Dates, Wedding Invitations and RSVP’s are three important things that should be carefully picked out in a wedding. It should give a brief description about your wedding and what type of wedding you will be having. It could be romantic, elegant, formal, by the beach, melodramatic and etc. It should reflect the theme or the “feel” that you and your partner want on the wedding. This would give your guests an idea on what to wear that is adequate and fit for the occasion.

Jeff and I always wanted to add our personal touch on the entire wedding preparation. Well, mostly, I’m the one who wanted to be involved in all the areas of the wedding planning. I guess you can’t blame me. I am just like any other bride out there who wanted the best part of their life to be perfect and unforgettable.

So our invitation was quite unique and of course we all got the idea online. We decided to give out Save the Dates first and the wedding invitation to follow a month before the wedding. It was not really part of the wedding tradition to send Save the Dates but for us, we wanted the Principal and Secondary sponsors to prepare 2-3 months before the wedding and to make sure that they save the date. Well that’s actually the main purpose of the invite. We want them to really dress up for the wedding (if possible) with the wedding motif. Our Save the Date consist of the time and date of the wedding, name of church and wedding reception, motif and the invitee’s role in the wedding (Principal or Secondary Sponsor). We sent our Save the Date’s 3 months before the wedding. Making the design was the tedious part since we integrated all the ideas that we got online to make our own Save the Date design. Thankfully after 2 days of revisions, we finally came up with the final draft. Here’s a glimpse of our Save the Date card:

The Wedding invitation was our next dilemma. Our first plan was a simple photo card in black and white with our collage of pictures in it. Unfortunately, our parents did not like the whole idea and wanted a different one. My dad suggested a scroll invitation and immediately volunteered that he will be sponsoring the scrolls. And so it was settled on both sides and I have to make another draft of the wedding invitation to be used on the scroll. It was the very stressful part of making the wedding invitation because we need to look for quality papers and the one that we liked was out-of-stock. We still have to wait for a month at National Bookstore for the orders to arrive. Thankfully, we were not disappointed. Our orders came a month before the wedding. Making one scroll invitation was not that tiresome but come to think of making 60 scroll invitation and 100 photo card invitations, wow that was really tiring! We feel so blessed because our bridesmaids who happened to be my agents and my best of friends offered their help in making the invitations. We made the invitation every Friday and Saturday for 2 weeks and amazingly we were done on time! Thank you to all my friends! This goes out to Elva, Louella, Dee, cousin Jiji and Nene, Manang Gina and to my agents Zee, Analyn, Amy and Noeme. You’re the best guys!

In addition, when giving out invitations, it is highly recommended that you include a Wedding Registry sponsored by any malls near you. To apply for one, all you have to do is go to the Department store and present your wedding invitation and you would be asked to choose a list of items that you and your partner would like to receive as a wedding gift. This is to ensure that you won’t be getting 5 rice cookers, 3 irons, 3 electric fans and the like. This would make it easier for your guests to know what present to buy for your wedding.

Here are our pictures while making the invitations:

Bears and Superfriends helping out in making our photo card and scroll invitations.