Thinking About Your Invitations
When you are having a large event such as an engagement or a Christening, you will be of course enjoying having many guests in attendance. This is part of what makes the occasion fun and memorable, but at the same time it is also what makes it so nerve wracking and stressful to organize. This becomes evident right from the start before you have even purchased the venue as you realize that you have to send out that many invitations and include that much information. Here we will look at how to ensure your engagement invitations and Christening invitations.
The first step of course is to know who you are going to invite and when. However this is often easier said than done. For instance it can be tricky knowing specifically who you want to give your invitations to. Before you can start inviting people, you need first to have made your guest list, but this in itself is dependent on various other factors. For instance you can’t start inviting people until you know how much space you are going to have in your venue – otherwise you will risk inviting too many people and not having the space to keep them. However at the same time this is further complicated by the fact that you might not get a 100% response rate. In other words, you don’t invite too many people because you are expecting to have a small venue, only to find that half of them don’t show and your location isn’t filled to capacity.
One way to solve this problem is to send more than one set of invitations. An invitation that you send prior to the invitation ‘proper’ is called a ‘save the date’ invitation, and this can come before your real engagement invitations and Christening invitations in order to let people know the event is happening before you know about the precise location, or the time for instance. At the same time this gives you an idea of how many people are able to attend your event and this gives you the ability to know if you can add a few extra people to your list.
You can also use your engagement invitations and your Christening invitations to get other information about your guests – for instance you can use them to learn about the guest’s preferences for dinner and whether or not they are bringing a plus one, all of which can help you to make more preparations for your event.
As well as thinking about your ‘strategy’ and the information you are trying to collect when you use save the date invitations you also need to think about your aesthetics – how the invitation is going to look and whether it will make a good impression and put people in the right mood for your big day. You might for instance want to give you invitations some design flair and flamboyancy, or you might want to make them look more modern and professional. If you have chosen a theme for your engagements then you might want them to echo this topic.
These are just a few things you need to consider when choosing and sending engagement invitations. To get started with these or christening invitations, visit either link.
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