The Personal Style of an Invite Creates the Theme

So you’re tasked with arranging a major function, be it a reunion or an engagement party, you’ve set the time, picked the location, you can even have agreed the guest list – now you must make the announcement.

Designing the right invitation can often be quite a pain – while many may suggest it’s only the invite, it’s only the notification of your special occassion – but that will be a person that never had to organise a major do like a 21st birthday or reunion

Creating the right feel and tone for your event is loosely based on the efforts you put into your invitations. Sending a cheap pre printed invite from the local newsagents could be okay for your daughter’s 4th birthday , but for a wedding.

Whether it’s a wedding, a birth announcement or even a 21st, the invitations become a souvenir of the event – the invite regularly frames your own photograph album and for many others are kept in theirs.

To lose the art of creativity when it comes to an announcement is ruinous. The skilled calligraphers who hand crafted notices is on the wane.

Back pre 1400′s, when it was rare to leave the region of a local hamlet, the Town crier could walk the roads announcing in a loud voice the news of the day. Frequently it was open invitation, quite like the general public events of Facebook!

As the years stole away, by 1447 Gutenberg’s Printing Press was invented and over time the middle class could design top of the range invitations thru metal plate engraving (circa 1642) and lithographs by the 1800′s.

These technological advances enabled a wider use of printing so that the general public could herald their special occassions with a printed invite giving the guest something to hang onto as a memento of the occassion.

Now, personalising invitations is as straightforward as making something at home and printing it. Having said that , a top quality personalised birth announcement or wedding invite is still worth the investment, especially when it can all be done online and is typically cheaper than the price of home printer ink cartridges!

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