Winter Wedding Invitations

Choosing Your Winter Wedding Invitations

With its breathtaking beauty, Winter is a wonderful season to celebrate your nuptials. Choosing your invitations will be based on a number of factors, including your wedding colors, theme and style of the wedding, and your personal preferences.

Winter weddings offer many options for colors -- just about anything, from cool, icy blues to rich cranberry and evergreen can work well. Many brides opt for white Winter wedding invitations, but there are many color choices as well.

Motifs

The motifs and designs you use for your invitations can be those traditionally associated with Winter weddings, such as snowflakes, or they can take on a more contemporary feel, such as a photo wedding invitation with a seasonal background.

Traditional

Some common images and motifs commonly seen on Winter wedding invitations are:

• Falling Snow
• Horse-drawn Sleighs or Carriages
• Sprigs or Branches of Holly and Berries
• Wreaths
• Evergreens
• Evergreen Branches and Pinecones
• A Snowman and Snowwoman
• Garland and Bows
• Winter Trees and Snowy Background
• Snow Cover Tree Branches
• Christmas Ornaments
• Bells

Unique

Although there are many invitations that use the preceding traditional motifs, there are also a variety of more unique designs available. A few examples are:

• Two Cups of Hot Chocolate
• Penguin Couple
• Whimsical Winter City
• Colored Stripes and White Dots
• Red Cardinal or Bluejay
• Poinsettias
• Red Roses
• Colored Snowflakes
• Glitter Invitations
• Shaped Invitations (Snowflake Cutouts, etc.)

Other ideas to make your invitations unique include embellishments like ribbon, silver or gold cord, and snowflake charms. You can also choose to get your invitations on specialty paper like parchment, linen card stock, or metallic paper for a unique look.

Custom Wedding Invitations

If you can't find the Winter wedding invitations you want, you can always have custom wedding invitations made to your specifications. Companies offering custom handmade invitations include:

• Amy August Invitations
• Paper Silk Studio
• Prelude Wedding Identity
• My Personal Artist

Although custom Winter invitations will have a higher cost, if you have your heart set on a certain design or want something original, the extra cost may be worth it.

Discount DIY Winter Invitations

Winter wedding invitations don't have to be expensive. With the enormous amount of holiday and seasonal cards, stationary, and embellishments and decorations that take over retail stores each year, you may be able to make your wedding invitations yourself at a huge discount.

You can use create unique invitations using your computer, or use inspirations from Christmas cards. If you are making your own invitations, you can also coordinate your favors with your invitations.

Wording

The wording for your winter invitations gives you an opportunity to experiment with wonderful phrases associated with the season. Many companies have pre-worded templates you can choose, or you can often specify your own wording.

Ideas for winter wording include those pertaining to:

• Falling in love (with an invite of falling snow)
• The magic or miracle of Christmas
• The peace/joy of the season
• Jingle wedding
• Winter weather
• Winter wonderland
• Phrases incorporated from favorite Christmas carols

Invitation Tips

• Winter is a busy time of year for postal and shipping services, so order your invitations early to avoid getting them caught in the holiday rush.

• Send out invitations well in advance to avoid clashing with your guests' holiday travel plans, perhaps even earlier than the traditionally advised six to eight weeks in advance.

• If you are worried about invitations getting wet in a very snowy climate, maybe an alternative such as Wedding Invitation in a Bottle might work for you.

• Have your invitations reflect the tone of your wedding so your guests know what to expect.