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Homemade Wedding Invitations

What better way to create a completely custom invitation that exactly reflects your personality and wedding theme than creating homemade wedding invitations?

Homemade wedding invitations can be quickly and beautifully made using your computer and printer.

The first step to creating homemade wedding invitations is to establish the theme. The invitations are the first introduction your guests will have to your wedding, and the style and wording of the invitation are a great way to convey the type of celebration to come.

For a really personal touch, your homemade wedding invitations might feature a picture of you and your fiancé on the front. You or someone you know could manipulate the photo in a program like Adobe Photoshop or Macromedia Fireworks to incorporate special effects, such as making the photo sepia-toned, embedding a lacey looking texture, or creating a cameo-style oval bordered by flowers. Touches like these make homemade wedding invitations really one of a kind.

Hand made papers can really add uniqueness to homemade wedding invitations. If you have the time and the know how, creating your own paper is a fun and rewarding project that will begin to set the mood for your homemade wedding invitations.

If you aren’t planning on making your own paper, then you should select the highest quality paper you can afford for your homemade wedding invitations. The quality of the paper stock will have a major impact on your final result.

Selecting a fabulous font for your homemade wedding invitations is the next step. For the headings, a gorgeous script font is elegant. For the body, make sure you select a font that is easily readable.

The colors you use on your homemade wedding invitations should be selected carefully. You can incorporate your wedding’s theme colors, or use an elegant sable color to compliment an antiqued photo on the invitation cover.

Practice printing your homemade wedding invitations in inexpensive paper before you attempt the real thing – you don’t want to waste your investment in that beautiful paper stock on trial runs! But be sure to have some extra of the good paper on hand in case of printer snafus.

If you’d like to simply print your homemade wedding invitations on blank paper and envelopes, you can order them from a company like LCI International. They also provide Wedding Publisher software to assist in the process of making homemade wedding invitations.

Homemade wedding invitations will set the stage for a truly one of a kind wedding and let your guests know that every detail is important to you.