While I do believe in DIY-ing certain things for your wedding, I fully believe that your wedding invitations should not be one of them. Your Save the dates and invitations are the first glimpse your guests get to see of your wedding before the big day and you want to impress them! Your wedding stationery should account for 7-10% of your wedding budget, so you want to get it right!
Your wedding stationery should be considered an investment in the biggest day of your life and you should leave it to the designers.
Here are the reasons, why you should hire a wedding stationery designer for your wedding and why it’s worth the investment.
The designer has skill and experience
If you want your wedding stationery to be unique and to really make an impression with your guests, you need someone who has the experience and the skills to bring your vision to life. There are many things that go into making gorgeous invitations, such as fonts, graphics, creating a colour palette, wording and etiquette, using design software, working with the printer, etc. A stationery designer has the understanding, the skills and the experience to do all these things for you.
The designer will ensure that your wedding card is of standard quality
The quality of your invitations trumps everything else on this list. There are so many things to consider to ensure the quality of your invitations, and not only do stationery designers have the skills and experience to design beautiful invitations for your wedding, they also are able to guarantee that your invitations are created using the best paper type, the right envelopes, printing techniques and color palette. They can also make recommendations on each of these things according to your budget, since they work closely and communicate with paper suppliers and printers on a daily basis.
The designer will save your time
Everyone knows that planning a wedding is not easy, and definitely requires a lot of time. As a bride/groom, you have a ton of things on your to-do list to get in order for your big day and attempting to DIY your wedding stationery can turn into an extremely difficult and time-consuming and money-consuming task. Your wedding stationery is a very large task on that to-do list, so wouldn’t it be nice to get that big item off of your list and let a stationery designer handle it for you?
The designer will keep track of all your details
Many brides don’t know how much work really goes into building a custom wedding suite. First off, you need to gather inspiration of designs that you like and bringing together those details to your final design that I will make for you! From building your guest list, getting the envelopes addressed, assembling your suite, getting postage for your invitation and RSVP envelopes, and finally keeping track of your guests who are responding and those who aren’t. The one thing that I hate for my brides to have to worry about is after you find that design online, you then have to print them yourself? This is a special time you need to enjoy and this is why hiring a freelance print designer in London will help take the stress off during the invitation process.