Printing Wedding Invitations - It's All in the Details

Printing wedding invitations involves decisions on some important imprinting details including your lettering style(s) and ink color(s).  You probably won't give much thought to these selections until you actually go through the process of designing and ordering your invitations but it might help if you are prepared with some helpful tips.

Here are a number of particulars to keep in mind when choosing your lettering style...

• The more decorative the lettering style the more difficult it could be for your guests to read so study the letters (both upper and lower case) carefully for readability.
• Certain lettering choices are automatically in small caps meaning all letters appear as uppercase with normal capital letters appearing slightly larger.
• A few typestyles are much lighter than others when printed and others may show up as being bolder. 
• Some lettering styles are naturally larger in their appearance.
• More and more modern wedding invitations are incorporating two lettering styles usually with the bride and groom's names appearing in a distinguished font. When shopping for your invites, it will be specified if one or two lettering styles can be printed on that particular design.

As far as ink colors, again some contemporary wedding invites are using two contrasting colors to single out certain details such as the couple’s names.   If your invites have a colored background or are printed on a colored paper, remember to choose an ink color that will stand out against that particular color for easy reading.

When printing wedding invitations, you will be presented with all the different lettering styles and ink colors that are available for your chosen design.  To help in making your selections, it is recommended that you take notice of which choices are used on the sample invitation to see if you like how they look.  Those choices are usually listed within the product details.