Wedding Invitations

Sample Invitations are available to help you decide
which invitation best suits your wedding plans

An invitation is much more than a piece of paper announcing your wedding. It sets the style and tone for the whole day. As you are going to invite your guests to Tuscany why don’t you choose a real Florentine paper to write your cards? Then we can choose together the calligraphy you like, add pictures and designs if you wish and let them print or, for a more exclusive touch, let them handwrite.

WHAT
Most common words

Invitations are sent out from whoever is hosting the wedding. Traditionally this is the bride’s parents but these day it is just as likely to be the couple themselves. Here you have some example of invitation wording Traditional – Mr and Mrs Peter Welsh request the pleasure of…..at the marriage of their daughter Joanne to Mr Tom Cole.

• Bridal couple as hosts

• Divorced parents as hosts

• Remarried mother/father as host

• Widowed mother as host

RSVP

Adding this short, which means “please respond” is always very important but, for you, it becomes essential. Since you are organising your wedding abroad ,you need to know, much in advance how many people will attend the ceremony and, most of all, will need an accommodation. An other way is to add the wording "Regrets" or "Regrets Only" which means that only guests who can't make it need to respond. This way, the couple assumes that if you don't respond, you are coming. This way, the couple assumes that if you don't respond, you are coming.

Maps Cards

This card may is essential, if your guests are coming to Tuscany by their own means, to ensure that no one gets lost or ends up arriving late to your event or to the accommodation chosen. You can have simple text directions, guiding your guests step by step or you can also opt to submit either a hand-drawn map or have the ceremony site give you a copy of their own map and have it printed on the card. Clearly written street names and clear map drawings will certainly help.

Accomodation Cards

If you have booked an accommodation for your guests you will give exact details of the location including phone numbers and any useful information. If you are going to let your guests free to reserve by their own, you should give contacts and details of the wedding planner who will take care of their reservation.

Plan Cards

If you are going to offer your guests some activities during their stay in Tuscany like for example wine tasting lessons with visit of cellars or a relax day in a thermal spa, a concert evening or an excursion, if you are going to celebrate together also a rehearsal dinner, a brunch or a night in disco, a plan card could be funny and useful touch which will help your guests understanding how things will be.

Programs

Programs are an extra touch that help guests understand any special rites that are used in Italian Town Halls or, in case of religious weddings, that are unfamiliar to people of a different religion.

OTHER STATIONEY ARTICLES

There are some other printed articles who will need for your wedding and it could be a good and convenient idea to order them together with invitation cards.

Thank You cards

They can be printed with 'Thank You', your names, a monogram or a motif on the outside. The inside is left blank allowing you to write a small personal message. Thank you notes can match your wedding invitations or your personality, just remember that you will need plenty of them. You will use them to thank people for coming, for having made a gift, for having sent flowers and so on.

Place Cards

Place cards help your guests find which table they are seated. This is great when you have a special seating arrangement and you want your guests to find their place without any problems. You can give each table a different name or number which the guests will find also on the table. You will decorate the place card in according to the theme of the whole wedding. The place card could also be helpful in letting your caterers know who is having the chicken or the vegetarian option. You may tie different coloured ribbons on the place cards or use stickers to indicate the different meal choices your guests have made.

Seating Cards

An other way to help people finding their place is to put seating cards directly on the tables, next to the glasses or on the napkins.

Favour Cards

It is quite common to tie a small card at the favours you have prepared for your guests where you indicate just the name of bride and groom together with the wedding date.

The Wedding Guest Book

If you wish to keep a magic souvenir of your wedding, you can arrange a small table at the entrance or in the reception hall. You will put an open blank guestbook on it to give everybody the chance to let you a thought or memory. You will have a treasure which will last forever.