by: Are you wondering how to personalize your modern wedding invitations? You're not alone. Your wedding invitations are the main attraction, the showpiece~ the crowning jewel of your wedding stationery! You want them to be a perfect prelude to what your guests will find on your big day. But how? Where to start? Well, it starts with your wedding vision. What do you want your wedding day to look and feel like ... Once you are settled on your vision, you'll be filled with ideas on designing your wedding invitations to fit your personality and your wedding style to a T. Four elements in personalizing your wedding invitations include: {and explained below} 1. Color. 2. Font. 3. Wording. 4. Photos. 
- Color is one of the easiest ways to put your personality onto paper. Colors have meanings and as such, will instantly evoke a mood. For instance, the hot hue for 2011 is Honeysuckle Pink- a high-energy pink. This shade of pink is going to communicate fun, festivity, and excitement! To help illustrate further, here are 3 mood boards depicting cool, warm and neutral color schemes. You can also download our color theory guide to help you discover more colors as well as those that will complement and contrast too. And, we recently talked with Chrissy from The Perfect Palette on creating your own color palette... which you can read here.
- Fonts have feelings and play an extremely important role in personalizing your wedding invitations. Fonts suggest the mood too! For instance, you can take a design that was originally meant to be formal and turn it casual, or turn a casual design into one that is retro~ simply by changing the font style. For a quick lesson in font types, click here. Be inspired to take your invite to the tone and the formality you want with your font choices.
- Wording for the wise. Spend time crafting your wording to reflect the atmosphere you want for your wedding day. Communicating the formality as well as the logistics of the day, use your personalities to inspire the wording you want your guests to receive. Personalize every part of your invitation ensemble. Don't just settle for the status quo ... jazz up your ensemble with the spirit of the locale, humor, sweet anecdote... Need ideas? Here are opening wording ideas to set the stage for your invitations ... and wording ideas for divorced hosts ... RSVP wording ideas and {"funny" RSVP wording ideas} too.
- Photographs give face time and are one of the more obvious {albeit non-traditional} ways to introduce your fiance{e} and incorporate personality into your wedding invitations. Carefully consider the type of photograph and how it is styled before you make your decision. What do you want the photo to say about your personality? At MagnetStreet Weddings you are the designer. You have total control over the color scheme, your font choices and the wording. Personalize with passion and set the tone you want. Use color, font choices, wording and even photos to carry your theme, style and personality.
Invitation images from MagnetStreet Weddings: top left: Forever Yours {Gate-fold} bottom left: Signature of Love {Pocket-fold} middle: Damask Dream {Flat-rectangle} top right: Made for Each Other {flat} bottom right: Antique Filigree {design suite} *as of November, 2014, Half-fold Wedding Invitations are no longer available at MagnetStreet.
