Planning
your wedding can be a stressful and frustrating, not lest time consuming. All
that time spent finding a venue for the ceremony, meal and the evening event
and will they meet the needs of the size of the wedding you are planning. Great
you have ticked all the boxes including a location that all your guests can
reach but hang on, what style of wedding are you having. Will it be formal,
informal, or themed and will the location fit your needs.
This can be
a challenge and I have not even mentioned what people will be dressed in or the
flowers let alone the other little things like place cards, thank you cards,
and invitations.
Finding the
perfect Wedding cards can be hard, especially on your feet as you travel from
store to store only to find the same type of cards. There is another way and
one that your feet will love you for, the internet. Sure, you can go to the
online versions of the stores you visited on the high street to see their full
range that they did not have in the physical store but there are many stores
that only exist on the internet and these are the ones that we will be looking
at today.
POD or
print on demand sites, these sites have hundreds of thousands of designs on
file and only produce a product when someone buys one. This way they can offer
you all the designs and not just the popular ones. Because the card designs are
created by artists from around the world you get a lot of different styles and
themes to chose from. On Greeting Card Universe below says “any greeting card
imaginable, if you can’t find what you are looking for just ask”, you can post
your request to the site and this will be sent out to every artist to invite
them to fill your brief. Another way is to contact an artist whose style you
like to see if they would create a wedding card for you or make changes to one
of their cards to suite your needs and this can hold true for the other sites
to.
Here are
some of the POD sites that I like to use but there are many more to be found on
the internet.
Another
place to look for ideas is Pinterest where you can click through to buy a
product. One of the problems of buying from the internet is that the colour you
see on your computer may not be the same as the card in your hand. This is because
not everyone’s computer monitor is set to the same specifications as the POD
sites printers and each POD site can be different. For this reason it is easer
to order one of each of the cards that you have narrowed down so that you are
sure about the look and feel in your hand. One of the advantages of buying from
a POD site is that they are not going to run out of the card you have chosen so
you can wait till they have a sale on (they are always having sales) before you
place your order.
Still not
found that unique card for your special day, why not have a look at hand
crafted cards. Many skilled artists on sites like Etsy and Folksy. Another
option is to make your own, at sites like Crafts U Print you can buy a file
that has all the key elements that you can print out over and over again to
make as many cards as you need including you practice attempts. Still not found
what you want, why not have a go at making your own cards. If you are not sure
how to do this then the book below is a great place to start.
The Complete Practical Guide toCard-Making: 200 Step-by-Step Techniques and Projects with 1100 Photographs
Beautiful to
receive as well as fun to make; here is a sparkling selection of fabulous
card-making projects designed for maximum decorative and creative effect. There
are cards for holidays and festivals, birthday celebrations, special
anniversaries and red letter days, plus cards to express love, friendship,
apology, sympathy and much more. The introduction outlines materials and
equipment you will need and demonstrates over 50 papercraft techniques to help
you achieve your desired design. Bursting with ideas and illustrated with 1100
practical photographs this book is a treasury of inspiration for every creative
crafts enthusiast.
I hope that
you have found this post useful, if so please leave a comment. If you know of
any places to find great Wedding cards post the link in the comments to help
other people find them
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