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Wedding Invitation Design of the Week – Thanda Creations

Sam — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 05:53:49 +0000

First of all we would like to apologise for the blog being so quiet in the past few weeks – we decided to take a long-overdue summer holiday and then returned to the hectic summer wedding season so I’m afraid that our regular blog posts have taken a brief holiday too! We are delighted to get going again with our wonderful wedding invitation ‘Design of the Week’ which this week is ‘Stephanie’, by Thanda Creations.

We love the simplicity of this design which incorporates 4 different cards in one, with the invitation card, directions card, RSVP and accommodation card all tied together with ribbon. The invitation fans out to reveal all you need to know about the wedding and of course the types of information cards can be changed to suit your wedding. This design is particularly useful if you are having a wedding overseas or if many of your guests will be coming from different countries when a lot of information needs to be included along with the invitation.

The RSVP card is perforated so your guests can easily detach it and send it back with the envelope provided. Thanda Creations also offer a multi lingual stationery printing service, so if you are printing your invitations in a number of different languages this service will be perfect for you!

The ‘Stephanie’ wedding invitation design, including all 4 information cards costs £3.00 per invitation. Contact Thanda Creations for more details.

Overseas Beach Wedding Invitation: Design of the Day

Sam — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 10:01:21 +0000

If you are looking for fun, funky overseas wedding invitations for your beach wedding then look no further than Bunny Delicious, the latest design studio to join us here at WIS. We love ♥ these quirky beach designs and just adore the cute flip flops which are handmade from scratch by Zoe, the lead designer at Bunny Delicious. These are just perfect for a relaxed beach wedding in sunnier climes! Gorgeous! The handmade beach wedding invitations are just £3.75 each and the printed version (without those cute little flips flops!) is £1.75. Contact Zoe at Bunny Delicious to order or for more information.

A unique ‘icy’ Wedding Invitation Idea

Sam — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 17:35:22 +0000

We LOVE receiving great, unique wedding invitation ideas here at the WIS, so when James from the marketing and design company Beanwave left a comment on our site I just couldn’t resist sharing his ‘icy’ design for a truly unique wedding invitation. This is what James had to say about a rather unusual design request – for his own wedding! ♥

From James at Beanswave:“Wedding invites are not something Beanwave have been asked to do before, but when the brief was “we’re getting married… in the Ice Hotel in Swedish Lapland… there’s also a second reception/party in England a week later for those that can’t make it to the Arctic Circle… we need invites… and they can be as creative as you like”, then that’s the kind of job that gets the juices flowing at beanwave. And the client? Well that was me and the soon-to-be Mrs Bristow, so they had to be good.

An invitation to any event should set the tone and give recipients a sense of anticipation and excitement. Our idea? Let’s create an invite that reflects a ‘wedding of two halves’, and post it in a box of snow. Simple.

So in October 2009 each of our guests received a box through the post. The outside address label contained the quote:

“A snowflake is one of nature’s most fragile creations, but look what they can do when they stick together”

Upon opening the box, each recipient received an avalanche of snow-like polystyrene balls over-spilling from the box. Then inside, under the ’snow’, they found an invitation card with a photo of a heart carved from ice.

On first opening, the card revealed two sides – one for the Ice Hotel Wedding the other for the Woburn reception. The card then opened out again to reveal a montage of bride and groom photos from childhood through the years.

The other detail was using appropriate lyrics from Beatles songs. These were subtly printed on the cards using spot varnish so they could only be seen when light catches at the right angle. The reason for this was that we had booked a Beatles tribute band for the reception, but wanted to keep them as a surprise. (This theme was also carried through to the reception where the table names were Eleanor, Sadie, Rita, Lucy, Prudence & Martha!)

Although they cursed us when still finding little balls of snow for weeks later, the reaction was great, recipients really loved this unusual, modern wedding invite. Both days were fantastic occasions, the Ice Hotel was an amazing place, and the Upbeat Beatles were a massive hit. Happy days indeed.”

Designer Spotlight: Contemporary wedding invitations by Thanda Creations

Sam — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 13:01:21 +0000

We are delighted to introduce our latest wedding stationery designer – Thanda Creations. Thanda creations have produced some truly unique designs using unusual luxurious papers imported from around the world – India, South Africa and Japan amongst other countries. Many of the invitation designs have an overseas theme including ‘Sunbird’ – a rustic chic South African design, perfect for 2010. This is top folded square invitation layered with a beautiful pearlescent “pearl effect” paper and embellished with an African gold metal bead and feathers.

Thanda creations offer a bespoke design service and are happy to personalise the designs for you. Since they cater particularly for overseas weddings, they also offer a multi-lingual stationery printing service.