If you’re not entirely thrilled with the selection of wedding invitations that are available because they look like the same kind that almost everyone sends, you might want to consider square wedding invites.
Unlike the rectangular wedding invitations that your mom sent out, and that can get lost in the shuffle of the other letters, bills, and announcements that come in the mail, square wedding invitations are bound to stand out. When your hopeful guests get their mail, they’ll know–right away–that the envelope that came from you is something special indeed!
One advantage of square wedding invitations, is the extra space available for main invitation text. This feature may be particularly attractive to brides-to-be and grooms-to-be from blended families where the names of all of the parents and step-parents will also be on the invitation.
Square wedding invitations and their envelopes can be purchased at many bricks-and-mortar and online retailers. Specialty wedding invitation designers will have many different styles, themes, and effects–such as layering different papers and embellishments–as well.
For the do-it-yourself (DIY) couple, you can get square paper stock, card stock, and their corresponding envelopes at craft, stationary, and paper-specialty stores or purchase complete DIY square wedding invitation kits. Even your reply cards can be square, so that you don’t have to break your theme.
Square wedding invitations can have square or rounded corners, which will give your invitations a stylish and modern design. All square wedding invitations, however, need square wedding invite envelopes.
When selecting your square invitations, be careful about sizing. In most cases, wedding invite envelopes require added postage because of the non-standard size, but other postage considerations are envelopes that are too small or too big and the total weight of the invitation.
One tip for addressing wedding invitation envelopes that are square, is put your return address on the back, leaving the front for the addressee’s information. Doing this allows you to continue seamlessly, your invitation design or theme on the envelope as well.
Make your invitations as unique as your wedding with square wedding invitations. As Hewey Lewis once sang, “it’s hip to be square.”