Today, contemporary couture wedding invitations feature one of a kind luxurious fabrics, feathers, velvet ribbon, crystals, rare imported papers, suede, dye cut shapes, and hand-sewn touches. Think Yves Saint Laurent, Gucci, Marc Jacobs. This invitation set is created just for you, and is replicated for no one else. Couture is equal to exclusivity. And, the possibilities are endless!

How do you determine what is the perfect choice for you? The key to creating couture custom invitations is vision. Vision will help your custom invitation designer ensure that all your paper products go perfectly together to project a cohesive look from your save the dates to the final thank you notes.

Your answers to the following questions can help guide a vision for your custom invitation:
– What is my own personal flair?
– Am I interested in textures, specialty materials, colors, typefaces, and layout?
– Am I a princess bride, chic bride, bohemian bride, or glamour bride? Am I a combination or some other type of bride?
– Are we a picket fence couple, uptown couple, modernist architecture, ranch, or old Hollywood couple?
– What are the colors of my bridesmaids’ dresses, linens, floral design?
– Am I guided by the seasonal colors?
– Is the wedding based on a period in time, a film, novel, or work of art?
– Is the wedding in the morning, afternoon or evening?
– Is the wedding indoors, in a ballroom, on the beach, in a garden?

When ordering your couture custom wedding invitations, be sure to plan well in advance. Depending on the rare materials, high-end printing processes, and up-scale calligrapher, it can take two to three months to create the invitation. Add 6 to 8 weeks to the timeline in order to send them out in advance of the wedding date.

Budgeting for a custom wedding invitation set should be approximately 10% of your overall wedding budget. Custom wedding invitations can range from $8 each – $15 each. If you desire the truly couture invitation set, the invitation can range from $15 up to $120 each, depending on the number of invitations ordered.

Invitations are the first impression that your guests will have of your wedding. The thank you notes are the first impression that your guests will have of you as a couple. Throughout, the couture wedding invitation set will seal the perfect vision.