Feb 19, 2013 | Posted by: abi s

While using the for iPhone and iPad may make planning a wedding a lot easier, you still will have the face the task of choosing your wedding invitations. Today it is not just a matter of what paper to choose, you also have to choose whether you want to send them by email alone or a combination of snail mail and email. Choosing the perfect wedding invitations will depend on many things, many of these would have been told to you by a wedding planner but since you are doing your own planning here in this article is the advice given by experts.

The first thing you will need to decide upon is the budget. Once that is set you can start to consider your wedding theme. A great thing is generally built upon 1-3 central ideas that are cohesive. Once you get the theme right, communicating your ideas to all of your wedding vendors will be easier and decorating becomes a breeze.

It will also make choosing the type of wedding invitations easier as well. Some people forgo the traditional invitation choosing to send a wedding invitation card instead. The first order of business after choosing the paper type is to choose the color palette for the invitations. Many brides get stuck here because they want to incorporate the entire wedding color palette on such a small space. This is not advisable. Go with the two primary colors to design a beautiful and unique wedding invitation .

When designing a wedding invitation remember that not everyone will share your aesthetics. Beauty is the one thing that is truly subjective. While you may think something more modern is fine many professionals have said that these bold embellishments, like rhinestones, metallic colors and fancy ribbons, will have a negative effect. These make the invitation look like you are inviting the people to a prom or "Sweet 16" party.

Today a lot of couples are trying to break with tradition, they are not spending a lot on invitations they are choosing instead to use the email invitation feature that so many wedding websites offer. While this is fine for the younger crowd it is still good to send formal invitations, through the mail, to the older more traditional invitees. The older aunt, uncle or god-parent may not have a computer.

Summary

Things often look very different in person than they do in a catalog, whether it is online or on paper. Order a sample before you commit to buying a huge quantity. Once the invitations have been embossed with you information they are not easily returned. It is fine to shop around online first, get a good idea about what you like and what you want before setting appointment with vendors. Do not allow yourself to become too stressed out, try to have fun with the process and enjoy planning your wedding. Visit wedding websites like iWedplanner to get free wedding planner apps for iPhone and iPad, while you are there visit to and to see if you can get ideas from other brides.