Your invitations and stationery should reflect your personal style and taste as well as your wedding day theme and decor. Look for ideas in bridal magazines or even ask wedding stationers to show you their portfolio to get an idea of styles you like. Remember to try and carry the same look and feel throughout all the stationery, from name cards and order of service to the menu and seating arrangements to invites and save the date cards, even thank-you notes.

Save the Date magnets are always useful especially if you have a lot of guests travelling from afar. Save the date cards should be sent out at least six months to a year before your wedding. The Invitations can be sent out six to 8 weeks before your wedding day.

Gifts or favours for guests are usually small items placed on the table for guests to take home with them after the wedding. They are usually given to say thank-you for attending the wedding or sometimes the bridal couple will give something that is more of a momento such as a small frame with a picture of the couple inside. Popular gifts include chocolates, sweets, small bottles of champagne or liquer, sugar-coated almonds and candles.

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