Help! I am stumped with my invites!

Thanks for the advice and stories all I think I'll nix the colour inclusion for our website, invites etc; as many of you have suggested/done. Many of you have all suggested save-the-dates. I may need to do a separate post about this but I think we're skipping them 😲 our wedding is not typical and there are physical requirments of guests if they wish to attend our ceremony so I am concerned that I will get "yes" from people whom once learning the location etc of the wedding will be unable to attend. (Thus the extremely early invites).

I was about to make a comment on not rushing into your invites because of how there's "so much time" til your wedding... but I had to check myself and remember it's already 2019 and your wedding is just over a year away... LOL. OMG.

The others have given you great tips already about colours/styling... I would suggest, however, that you still follow the Save the Date/ Formal Invite later guideline. Send out a Save the Date (even electronic if you want to, that's what I did to save money) as soon as you're ready. On this you simply include your names, the fact you're getting married, the date, and your venue location. People from there can start to figure out what their personal travel needs will be. If you are not ready to build/include your wedding website yet, don't! No pressure. Personally, I waited to share that til I had it completely ready to go, and put it on my formal invite.

You can send out your 'formal invites' earlier than normal, maybe around the 6 month mark. I had a lot of info that I didn't want to 'mush' on to the invite, so I did a formal invite, and a details insert. That details insert didn't have the info either, lol, just a cute poem/blurb about it being adults only, then our wedding website link for "RSVP, details, directions, registry info and more"....

Either way, you're totally on track. Congratulations on your engagement!

I agree with Allison, go with an invite that represents the mountain or an element that you know is final (like the venue). Keep it simple and clear and make sure all important informations are there. I personally created a special e-mail address for our wedding and plan for any messages my guests want to send me to go there!

Congratulations on your Engagement Your colors can change believe when I say this .

Mine have changed 2 times but this below is what has become

Our Colors

Steel Blue, Ivory & light soft yellow

You definitely don't need to be set in stone on your colors theme. our wedding website doesn't match our colors AT ALL. Our website we did on wedding wire and i did the free cherry blossom theme because i like cherry blossoms. hahaha our wedding colors are white, silver, candlelight (haven't even picked a bridesmaid dress color yet)

you also have the option that you could do digital save the dates first. to give people a heads up that they could reserve hotel room/know the date.

We took inspiration for our colours from the purple mussels that we found on the shores of a beach during a recent vacation.

I wholeheartedly agree with the sentiment to not worry about your invitations matching your theme, and love Allison's idea of a mountains theme. As you delve deeper into planning, you can adjust your website details accordingly.

We opted to go with a wedding website that allowed us to go solely digital for all correspondence, and one that had a template that we both agreed on. We're both picky, so it took sometime for us to figure that out, but once we found it, we found it suited our adventurous personalities, which to us matters most.

These are our colours, and our theme is beachy/tropical.

You can see on our wedding website, www.peggyandjared.com , we went with more of the beachy theme without too much worry about the colours matching.

View quoted message Love the colours Tori! And I think this is the route I will be going down- just having a general similarity, not matchy matchy.

Hi Mackenzie,

First off, congratulations on your engagement!

Your website/invites don't necessarily have to match your wedding theme, especially if you're not too sure what that is yet. You could focus more on the mountains aspect of it, since then your invites/website hint at where the wedding is. If you have wedding colours picked out (i.e. your blue and burgandy) you can incorporate those too!

I don't have any recommendations for platforms but I know Wedding Wire has a website builder where guests can RVSP to; The Knot also has a website building platform that I haven't played around with.

Fear not! When it comes to the wedding website don't feel that it's absolutley critical to have it match the theme of your wedding. For my wedding I am having the colours teal, plum, and copper but they don't have a layout like that here on wedding wire (that I'm aware of) so I just chose a them that looked rustic like how I hope our wedding will look. People shouldn't criticize it not being matchy matchy so I think you'll be fine.

Here are my colours:

and here is my website: https://www.weddingwire.ca/web/toriandkael

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