So your friend or sister is getting married and you’d like to help. Where can you start? One area where the bride may need assistance is with making the wedding invitations. You don’t have to be a professional printer to make quality invitations. Here are some things you can do to lend a helping hand to the bride to be.
- Talk to the bride. Before taking initiative with anything, talk to the bride first. Volunteer what you are willing to do, such as drive her to the printers, or help her pick out designs for the invitations. Be clear who’s paying for the invitation. If you say you are willing to help, clarify if that means you want to shoulder the expense for it, subsidize the expense, or if you will just help her get it done.
- Follow the bride’s guide. Keep in mind that this is her wedding, not yours, so the final decision has to be hers. You may not always agree with her design choices, but you must comply. For example, if you prefer a clean white sheet of paper but the bride prefers something in ivory with more elaborate border design, let her have her way.
- Make the guest list together. You’ll need to know how many people you need to send an invitation to, so spend an afternoon together going over a list of family and friends. Let this be the guide as to how many invites you’ll need.
- Help the bride canvass different printers. Based on your research, you may both decide whether it will be more cost effective to buy your own stationary paper and have the invites printed at a copier or use your own printer. If you have a good laser printer, you may offer to print the invitations yourself. This should greatly reduce the cost of printing instead of going to a professional printer. What bride wouldn’t appreciate saving money?
- Offer to proofread. Sometimes, it takes an impartial eye to proofread things so you can catch misspells that a harassed and busy bride may overlook.
- Put the invitation together. A typical invitation will have the main announcement card, a small RSVP card, a return envelope, the main envelope, and if it will be mailed, the outside envelope. Some invitations even have a seal or sticker placed on the main envelope. You can help make an assembly line putting things together for the bride, you may even ask a few more friends to help out. Make sure your hands are clean, and be careful of paper cuts!
- Address the envelopes. If you have neat and beautiful handwriting, offer to write out the names. You may even have some calligraphy skills, which will add a special touch to the invitations.
Offer the bride whatever help you can to help make her day special. She’ll appreciate the help, you’ll aid her save money, and it will add to the special memories she’ll have with her wedding.
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