If you adore elegant design and love the colours black and white, there is no reason why you cannot use it for your wedding. You can easily use this colour combo for your wedding decor, and for your wedding invitations. If you are putting black and white into use for your wedding invitations, you can either use just those two or even add more colours to make it a vibrant yet cohesive look. Find out how you can make a statement with black and white wedding invitations below.

Elegant Wedding Invitation Designs

When it comes to black white, you have three options, which include a balanced colour ratio, or more towards black, or more towards white. Depending on which colour you want more prominence on, the effect of your wedding invitation will rely upon this. If you are using going for a minimalistic feel to your wedding invites, then opt to use white as the prominent colour, and use black for the focal element or design, such as motif, and the invitation wording. If you want to use black prominently and make it a bold wedding invite, then you can do the same, just inverted, with a black background and white elements and wording on the invitation. When using design elements such as a lace design, as a pattern or maybe even to cover a specific area, you should opt for balanced proportions between the two colours in the theme, for a lasting impression on your elegant wedding invitations.

Bold and Beautiful Wedding Invitations

Apart from the focal two colours, being black and white, your wedding theme in all can include hints of other colours to take it away from being monochrome and put some life into the decor and other design elements. In such a case, you may opt to use the following to your black and white colour theme.

• Charcoal Grey, Dark Grey & Gray
• Gold
• Gold & Silver
• Gold, Yellow, Dark Grey & Charcoal Grey
• Green
• Lilac & Purple
• Lime Green, Pale Yellow & Sky Blue
• Navy & Grey
• Navy & Yellow
• Pink & Grey
• Red & Silver
• Silver
• Sky Blue
• Turquoise
• Turquoise, Navy, Yellow and Silver

If you have chosen black and white wedding invitation, you can use the above mentioned colours in the form of accents using ribbons or buckles to add a punch or some spice to the ensemble.

Meaning behind the Colours

Many people focus on the meanings behind colours and symbols, and most people just focus on white, not knowing that black too has some favourable meanings.

Black is the colour of strength, stability, power, and authority, which every marriage needs a form of balance and dependability. Not only that, but black is linked to intelligence as well.

White is mostly renowned for its meaning of purity; however other meanings include cleanliness, and safety, as well as creativity.

Planning and designing your wedding and the elements and themes can be a daunting task, and out of which selecting your colour theme is too. Some choices of colour in the neutral palette make things easier, and infuse a sense of chic. In this article, we will be looking into how a neutral palette can make a statement on your wedding day, and how neutral wedding invitations can too.

The Neutral Colour Palette

The neutral colour palette actually consists of colours that are not included in the colour wheel, which includes the likes of white and black, being the contrasting options, to beige, brown, and gray. When it comes to wedding colours, silver and ivory are also added to the palette, as they evoke a sense of elegance.

Accents to a Chic & Neutral Wedding Design

The great thing about neutral colours is that you can give off a cool and warm essence, especially with accent colours you complement the primary colour(s) with. Neutrals are also called achromatic tones, and if you opt to use varying shades of the same colour, that works well too. When choosing a neutral wedding colour for the theme of your special day, or your wedding invitations, opt to go either with neutral colours altogether, or complement it with a contrasting yet complementing colour, such as hues of red, blue, orange, and green that makes a statement.

Neutral Wedding Invitation Styles and Options

Neutral wedding invites give off an ethereal look and feel, and if you are opting for a white wedding, or even an ivory-toned wedding, then it will surely be beautiful. However, it is all right to team it up with other elements, such as flowers, or illustrations that make it stand out. There are many types of wedding invitations that use neutral colours and yet look fabulous, such as floral designs, garden elements used in the styling, be it illustrations or photographic accents. Beach wedding invitations are great in neutral hues, and quirky invites for wedding that have lovely illustrations such as a bride and a groom kissing on a neutral background. But a clear favourite, are the floral wedding invitations as including a beautiful flower or a pattern, makes the entire creation of the wedding invite card come alive, and with the right use of colour, be it beige, ivory or gray, you are bound to find a beautiful wedding invite for your big day.

Save the Date cards are very common nowadays, and some consider it a must to send it. Essentially, what a save the date card is a notification or notice letting your invitees or guests know that a significant event such as that of your wedding is coming up and for them to reserve the date for your special day. There are many choices when it comes to these cards, they can be part of a wedding invitation suite, or even stand out as separate card.

Baroque is an era or period of an artistic style that is emphasised in European architecture, art, and music from the likes of 17^th and 18^th centuries. Baroque styles are quite extravagant and ornate and often the best works seen at the likes of Palace of Versailles and baroque artists like Caravaggio and Vivaldi. Ornate means an intricate shape, which are decorated by patterns that are complex yet elegant due to its florid style. When you are a fan of this style, you may opt to use them in your wedding, with beautiful and ornate baroque wedding invitations.

There are many ways indulge in the style, and these relate to the designs, patterns and styles, to the themes used, the colours and the focal pieces. We look at each category to present a general idea of what you would find in ornate baroque designs.

Designs, Patterns & Styles

The ornate baroque style is rich in its design and intricate in its patterns. When you come across something of this period, you instantly known that it is a Baroque piece and you can relate to its uses. Apart from the florid styles that use leaf and floral designs, you can also find some designs and patterns such as Damask and Paisley. The layout and placement of your designs also have an impact, because if you choose a side, a corner, or use the design as a frame or a focal piece, you are making a statement. Frames, monograms, and motifs are very popular in these types of wedding invitations, because you end up with a personalised and truly unique creation.

Focal Pieces for Your Ornate Baroque Wedding Invites

Though you may use designs and patterns, when you take focal pieces for your wedding invite design, you can use the likes of chandeliers with all the detailing or even silhouettes, which also applies to carriage illustrations. You also have the option of using vintage oval & square frames, of even use a baroque florid design to form the frame. Other ways in which you can personalise your wedding invite would be to use a motif, monogram, or even the family crest. Baroque designs have also been seen with the likes of cherubs that are either silver or gold in colour.

Themes

When it comes to a theme, you may include the likes of ornate baroque designs if you are looking for themes such as classical, vintage, antique, Renaissance, and elegant.

Colours

Colours, which you can use for Ornate Baroque Wedding invitations, include the likes of combinations and bases such as Black & White with the likes of Pastel Blue, Green, Pink & Violet, Red, Aqua, Mandarin, Emerald Green, Royal Purple, and Maroon.

Vintage, in essentially, is a style that is also known as retro, which stands for retrospective, that emulates elements of style and design from certain eras and times. Be it from the 1920s, Victorian, Venetian or even Parisian times, vintage is still considered classy and held hand in hand with luxurious quality. If you want to infuse that essence into your wedding, you could opt for vintage element inspired designs for your wedding invitations.

One thing has been apparent about vintage style would be the decorative elements that are always prominent. These vary from flourishes and ornaments that include elaborate nature inspired graphics, curving floral elements, swirls, decorative borders, leaf and flowing designs, baroque ornaments, filigree and Victorian elements, calligraphic scrawls and motifs, scrolls and banners, and more. These designs elements are greatly used in wedding invitations to give off a rich and vintage chic touch to the creation that is an invitation to a joyous day in your lives.

When it comes to vintage wedding invitations, the colours you opt for also plays a hand at how your wedding ends up looking and should relate to or flow throughout the wedding theme, which ideally should be a vintage theme, if you are opting for that style of wedding invites. Wedding invitation vintage colours include the likes of the following.

• Black, Brown, and Forest Green
• Salmon Pink, Sea-foam Green, and Mint
• Aqua, Copper, and Rust
• Blush, Mauve, and Wine
• Cream, Orange, and Steel
• Butter Yellow, Lilac, and Mauve
• Blush, and Khaki
• Apple Green, and Maroon
• Gray, and Sage
• Gold, and Aquamarine
• Chocolate, Cream, and Mocha
• Apricot, Moss, and Turquoise
• Cantaloupe, Honeydew, and Pistachio
• Eggshell, Powder, and Willow
• Midnight, Storm, and Vintage Rose
• Emerald, Honey, and Stone
• Azure, Peach, and Turquoise
• Rose, Sand, and Mint
• Aubergine, Light Olive, and Tangerine
• Olive, Peach, and Navy

Utilise such colours with design elements previously mentioned. For a more exquisite look and feel, you could also add a few treatments to your wedding invitations. These could be with the use of letter pressing, engraving, embossing, foil printing, and using embossing powder for that delicate feel to your invite creation. Find what you feel is suitable for your wedding and whether it is in line with your theme. Make sure to ensure that these classic vintage elements and colours are also included, to stick to your vintage inspiration.

Every year, there is always change, with new ideas, or old ones resurfacing. It is the same with wedding, and the design elements that go into making it a beautiful event altogether, and not forgetting, the wedding invitation, which is affected by trends as well as the likes and dislikes in the wedding industry as times go by. In the coming year, we expect to see a lot of beautiful wedding invitations and designs that reflect the wedding industry trends, and ones that are also truly wonderful and creative.

Vintage Styles come and go, but almost everyone can declare that this style is ideal for wedding, for its subtle richness and quality, to the styles and classical statement it makes. You may use invite designs with vintage illustrations of birdcages, chandeliers to silhouettes, or merely the use of renaissance colour options to bring out a sense of finesse to the entire design of the vintage wedding invitations.

Watercolour is a wonderful element to put to use, especially if you are using DIY wedding invitation kits. Put your artistry and creativity to work, whilst you use your wedding theme, a scene from your intended wedding or vision, and make it a masterpiece on paper and present it to your invitees as your wedding invitation.

Foil Printing & Stamping are two great means to arrive at beautifully constructed wedding invite designs that are considered tasteful, appealing, and rich even if you are using a minimalistic design or style. Whether it’s silver, gold or even bronze foil prints, or stamping designs with the colours of the rainbow put to use, there is much you can do and can expect when it comes to achieving your intended look for your wedding day.

Laser & Die Cutting is a beautiful and intricate work of art, whether it is on paper, metal or even wood. Regardless, of which material you use, you are assured of a classy finish. If you want to do it yourself, you should have a steady hand and the right material to cut out the various designs. If you acquire a DIY wedding invitation kit, and have a stencil of a design in mind, then all you need to do is proceed with etching out the design and soon, you will have a beautiful wedding card.

Eco-friendly, textured and metallic paper are great to work with, because you have a certain amount of quality in your hands to start with when you want to achieve a level of finesse for your wedding invite card. Choose your materials wisely and go for it. With the right feel and look to your paper, you can find something beautiful once you are done.

When it comes down to DIY ideas, there are many choose from, especially when you take all types of invites and cards. However, when it involves wedding invitations, there are a few favourites that many bridal couples opt for and share a few of them with you in this article. From your traditional choices of handmade wedding invitations, to organic and completely creative DIY wedding invite projects, you can go about making it your own in many ways.

Pocket Wedding Invitations

Many couples love the concept of pocket wedding invitations. Not only is it organised and neat, but also the design in itself is beautiful. You have many types of pocket wedding invites to choose from, whether it is the shape, which is usually square, or rectangle, but where the pockets are placed and also the alignments too. Some invites come in tri-fold and bi-fold, but that does not mean that you cannot have a no-fold pocket invite. In addition, depending on your design, which can be simple, you can also include a keepsake photograph in one of the pockets, making it a memorable.

No Fold Wedding Invitations, Trims and Envelopes

Another favourite are the no fold wedding invitations with delightful details and trims. You can use various treatments to bring out the effect of your design, from embossing, engraving, foil printing and even laser cut treatments or even use your envelope as the trim. A popular choice would be the use of lace doilies to construct the delicate envelope and awe your guest with it.

Postcard Wedding Invitations and Save the Date Cards

Postcard wedding invites and save the date cards are also quite the feature. Not only is it easy and simple, but you can come with creative ways in which you can include your information.  It is easy to make and easy on the budget because you will be saving on envelope costs apart from the paper capacity.

Creative DIY Wedding Invites

The best course of action, if you are going about this type of invite, is to go full speed ahead. You can use any form of trimming, be it everyday items or flowers accents and so much more. Unplug your creativity onto paper and let your imagination flow to create a beautiful invite for your wedding. Some couples also like to use stamps to create that authentic feel to the design, which is great when you want to play with typography.

With these favoured options, your DIY wedding invitations will be spectacular. Consider the options available and put your heart into it. You will not regret it.

One of the ongoing trends in the wedding invitations and stationery industry is making everything designer. This can mean a number of things, and in this post, we will look into most of the trendy options of designer wedding invites available out there. Whether you want a truly unique wedding stationery collection, or something that is sentimental and you want it to look a certain way, or rather you want to make sure that all your wedding elements stick to the wedding dreams you had as child, these options can help you achieve what you are looking for.

We are looking into a few options, namely luxury wedding invitations, handmade wedding invites, to customising our wedding invitation envelopes to monograms & motifs and special treatments. You can make your wedding invites of designer quality in these ways.

Luxury Wedding Invitations

If you are looking for an out of this world wedding invite, then a luxury wedding invitation is the way to go. These couture designed invites are breathtakingly beautiful and can be customized to your requirements. Dazzling colours and ornate designs can adorn your invite and be truly worth the message it is carrying, in its regal appearance, one fitting a royal touch.

Handmade Wedding Invites

Handmade wedding invites, though you can have them personalised to your requirement, does not mean they are always in the same league as the luxury wedding collections.  You can sit down with a designer, and explain to them what you and your fiancé have planned and have them think up a beautiful masterpiece. Make sure to have samples done for reference so that you can see for yourself what the final product will be like.

Monograms and Motifs

A great way to ensure your wedding invite is personalised, it by adding the likes of monograms or motifs. You can even add this onto your wedding invitation envelope and customize it so that when your invitees have it in their hand; they can be informed of what it may be inside adding to the excitement of it all.

Special Treatments

There are many types of special treatments out there, from letterpressing, engraving, flat and foil printing, but a new trend is the use of laser cut treatments for beautiful works of art done on paper. Find an intricate design, and have it etched into your wedding invitations paper or cut away so that what you have is a beautiful piece of work, much like lace.

When it comes down to picking a wedding theme for a special day, there are so many to choose from and it can be exhausting for the bride and groom to come to a decision with all the ideas and inspiration popping up on the World Wide Web, recommendations from friends and much more. To make things easier for the bridal couple, we have compiled some top wedding themes that are ideal for decor as well as wedding invitation designs.

1.  Beach

The beach is a greatly loved venue for wedding, and with it you will have many inspirations present. Use anything from the horizon and the sunset to the waves, the beach and the seashells to bring about a beautiful theme, for your special day and wedding invitations.

2. Chic

Being stylish and fashionable is an art maybe people endorse, and you can infuse this into your wedding invites and wedding themes elegantly.  You can take sophisticated design elements, whether its modern or traditional and make it work according to your tastes and likes.

3. Country

From the soothing creams, browns and red of the earth, you get the country style and with it the rustic appeal, so many brides and grooms are so fascinated by. Bring together a great colour with an effect that will making it more authentic and appealing, such as antiquities and bring your styles out through your wedding day.

4. Floral

Floral themes can include many species, from roses, cherry blossoms, lilies that are delicate to orchids, frangipani which is tropical and exotic to bring together a style that best suits your personalities. With floral theme, you can find yourself with photographic or illustrated wedding invites, which are both beautiful on their own and together.

5. Romantic

We are all romantics at heart, no matter how hard we try to hide it from others and it is okay for it to show, especially on your one big day. Find what appeals to you in regard to romanticism from your venue, the flowers you have chosen or even something you both cherish dear to your hearts and make it work.

6. Vintage

Many say that ‘old is gold’, and it has never been truer than with vintage design elements, especially when they are infused into your big day. From the choice of venue that has a Victorian feel to it, or even the effect you want for your wedding invitation, find your inspiration by visiting such places or perusing through various artefacts and books on vintage art and decor to find the right look for you

Your wedding dress could very well be the most important design element of the wedding day for the bride, with the big unveiling of it when walking down the aisle.  This week we bring you wedding invitations designs inspired by your choice of wedding dress. This way, the invitees will instantly think of the wedding invitations when they see the bride walking down the aisle in her beautiful bridal dress. Wedding dress trends change every year, but the certain design elements stay constant and can be spotted in new designs that are making waves in the industry. With such wedding design elements, we will bring you some insight into how you can gather inspiration from your wedding dress and then use it for your wedding invitation design.

There are many beautiful dresses out there, and the varying design elements are many. We will discuss a few of them and offer you wedding invitations from DreamDay Invitations that reflect it and are ideal choices for your big day.

Brocade is known as a rich decorative design that is often made with silk coloured thread, usually gold or silver when it comes to the wedding dress. When it comes to your wedding invite design, DreamDay Invitation’s Love Stencil would be ideal, in silver or gold, or even foil printing depending on how glamorous you want it to be.

Floral accents are usually found on wedding invites, because no wedding would be complete without flowers. However, some brides prefer to have some floral accents on their wedding dress and like so, you can find a similar design on the invite design as well. Something along the lines of Rose Splendour that features roses, Dandelion Dusk that features tiny dandelion balls in a beautiful design, and many more floral wedding invitations available in the collection.

Lace Borders are beautiful on any piece of apparel, if they are done just right, and you can follow the same theme here, with using lace elements on your wedding invitations design and creating an enchanting look. There are many lace designs out there, so finding the right one would be based on your preference.  Crest of Love is one such type of lace element wedding invite, which has pointed scallops whilst Fantasy and Cloud Nine are more rounded and intricate.

In our next article instalment of Wedding Invitation Ideas, we will bring to you more options of Wedding Dress Inspired Wedding Invitations Designs, which include the likes of ornate elements, pleats and lines, damask, smooth textures and a mixture of varying elements that make up beautiful art. Stay tuned and Happy New Year to all!

With the Fall season dawning on Australia between the 1^st of March and 31^st of May, if you are planning on hosting your wedding in that season, then your decor will most likely be inspired by the colours and wonders of fall. Therefore, in this instalment of Wedding Invitations Ideas we bring you “Wedding Invitation and Ideas for Fall Weddings”.

Colours for a Fall Wedding

Popular colours for fall or autumn weddings include bold and dashing hues and tones, such as Burgundy, Dark Green, Navy Blue, Silver, Gold, Creams, Burnt Orange, Taupe, Brown and Plum. Utilising these colours in your wedding invitations and decor will make an elegant wedding element, one that will make a statement about your big day. Now that you have your wedding colours in mind, let us look at your wedding inspirations and accents, which you can use for your wedding invites and decor.

Inspirations

The season itself can act as an inspiration for your wedding, invitation and decor. However, there are some elements of autumn, which stand out more than the rest, where you can make use of it in your design. These include the likes of leaves, acorns, cedar accents, apples, wheat and much more. Autumn is ideal for garden wedding, or even barnyard weddings, creating a homely feel in the decor.  Other types of accents, which you can use, include the likes of fall flowers or even wild flowers, pumpkins and other fall vegetation and much more.

DreamDay Invitations has a collection for autumn weddings, and in this collection, you will find wedding invitation designs such as Autumn Garden that has a rich and elegant look to it. You can have foil printing on it for a touch of pizzazz. A floral wedding invite design would be Oriental Blossoms that has a soothing effect with flowers on its facing. Autumn Leaf is another design that has tones of cream and brown in it with a vintage touch to the design. Butterfly Flourish that features ornate butterflies is in a pattern and is beautiful to behold. Antique Amber, which also has a vintage touch, is home to the colour of fall and is ideal for your wedding day.  When it comes to brown wedding invitations and those in that shade and hue, you can also opt for the likes of Damask Charm, Tapestry, Dancing Butterflies, Silk Cascade, Velvet Plume and much more.

A wedding is supposed to be a once in a lifetime event, and that being so, you want it to be everything you ever dreamed off.  You might reminisce the times when you played with your dolls, and envisioned a grand wedding, one fit for a princess, and that has always been what you wanted for your actual wedding too. Today, we look into how your wedding can possess a royal touch and we do it by adding a few touches of pizzazz here and there, starting with regal wedding invitations.

When you think of regal wedding invitations, it does not necessarily mean designs overflowing with gold accents, but it is really about how and where you use those accents to portray a look that is elegant and also majestic. The easiest way to do this is by opting for foil treatment for the wedding invitations, either on the base with a different and maybe more sublet design on top, or you could use the foil treatment on a design that complements a royal look.

Apart from using gold, silver or bronze foiling, you can opt for more modest yet regal look with the use of patterns that are rich in look, and by coupling it with design elements such as borders for wordings and so forth. With such elements, you can use various colours to make it relevant to your wedding, whilst maintaining a regal look.

For most Indian or Hindu wedding invitations, it is a custom for the wedding invitations to be bold and majestic. With gold being a major colour option, you may opt to mix and match varying patterns with gold foiling and add a tinge of colour to match your theme, be it turquoise, emerald green or even red, which is a popular option. Either way, a regal wedding invitation would be fitting. However, that is not all, to achieve a majestic look; you might want to consider handmade or embellished wedding invitations that evoke the same regal effect.

Sometimes, finding the right balance between design and wording can make or break a wedding invite, so when it comes to regal wedding invitations it is important to make sure that it is not overdone. An elegant touch would be the best option, with tinged of gold to add a touch of pizzazz and the right typography of font will take it to the next level. As so, a regal wedding invitation is not too far away, especially when you have already built castles in the sky and planning a wedding fit for a princess.