Wedding Shower Invitation
Wedding Shower is gift giving ceremony to a bride before wedding. Every bride is showered by friends and family with a lot of gifts for her further life. Often it is coordinated by bridesmaids. Guests are invited who bring gifts for the bride and groom. Usually it organized four to six weeks before wedding.
Wedding Shower Invitation should be send four weeks before shower ceremony (see wedding shower invitation etiquette). Invitations are usually send by close friend of bride or someone who is invited for wedding.
Invitations are the first impression of your wedding shower on the guests so make it like a replication of your wedding shower. There are many ways to prepare wedding shower invitations.
- In this, you can be creative or personal or you can pick it up from a stationary store and simply fill in the blanks (see wedding shower invitation sample).
- You can also download clip art from internet. They even print the invitations for you.
- You can purchase stationary like blank note cards, or card stock from paper or art stores.
- Use some decorations related to your wedding theme like flowers or some beautiful stationary in different shapes like starfish etc.
- Rubber stamps, wax seals, confetti, glitter, paints, stencils, paper scraps, metallic pens and photos can be used to personalize the invitations.
- Some common themes that are used for wedding showers and invitations are picnic, floral, chocolate, garden, tea, kitchen, lingerie and recipe (see wedding shower invitation wording).
While sending wedding shower invitations, keep in mind that each guest should receive their own invitations even if they live in the same house. In wedding shower invitation, do include shower theme (if applicable), bride's name, venue, timing and host's name. Also write phone number for guests to RSVP.
Before one week of the shower, make sure guests have received their invitation if they have not called you.
