Bridal Stationery Themes
Bridal stationary themes are plentiful. Selecting the appropriate theme for your wedding a daunting task. There are the seasons, reflect the time of year your wedding is held. Flowers, and Celtic patterns or weaves for border designs. Embossed or intaglio themes offer subdued elegance, always gorgeous under a wedding name list.
The Four Seasons
Each season offers certain romantic ideas to reflect in your wedding invitation. Rose garlands are a summer and spring tradition, roses running around the border, roses embossed under your names. Fall are the leaves of autumn with rich colors, a border in two colors of fall is nice with the autumn leaves. Winter, use snowflakes embossed around the borders, or star patterns. Emphasize an aspect of the season that appeals to your wedding themes. If you carry a bouquet with peonies at the wedding, consider placing peony drawings on the wedding invitation.
Border Designs
Many border ideas are outlined above for your consideration. Borders are a beautiful form for a wedding invitation, since any theme from your wedding can be incorporated with a little thought. This may require hiring an artist to render certain special themes, elaborate rose garland borders; the expense will be justified when you see the beautiful results.
Initials, Embossed or Intaglio
Extremely simple yet elegant idea, the wedding parties' initials placed on the invitation. Set the initials beneath the Bride and Grooms names embossed or intaglio print set in white, or the color of the invitation, do not add any inks to the embossing, or intaglio. This technique is used for objects also such as flowers or shells or leaves. Intaglio or embossing ideas incorporated in the borders will render exquisite designs.
Architectural Motifs
Embossed or intaglio architectural or religious themes a subtle theme to compliment your wedding. Also, consider the stylized architectural drawings of the 19th century, with many variations on themes. There are the banners with rose garlands, or columns, vases and facades with Grecian figures placed around a border or under wedding headings and names make lovely antique wedding themes sparkle. Many of these motifs are copyright free, check at the websites for antique architectural drawings, free downloads. Another great idea is to use the molding designs from the pre-war architecture as a design for a border, unique and elegant.
Use discretion and do not overload the invitation with lots of graphics, one small intaglio relief of an architectural theme with garlands of flowers is really high impact and all that needed on the invitation. Usually so much typed information on a wedding invitation with the bride and grooms' family and location that too much graphics can be overwhelming.