Simple & Unique Invitation Ideas

The invitation sets the tone for your social event, so it should be enticing and unique. Whether your special occasion is formal or casual, use your imagination to create something out of the ordinary. Your unusual invite could end up in somebody's scrapbook, so why not make it a treasure that will be happily received?

Children's Parties

A party for a child is filled with balloons, games and lots of cake and ice cream. The invitations for these parties should be colorful and crafty. Use construction paper, beads, ribbons, glue and water-based marker pens to help your child create something imaginative and fun. The best part is that children really enjoy crafts and creating their own cards, and they always come out perfect.

Weddings and Anniversary Parties

A formal occasion deserves an elegant invitation. Handwritten calligrahy make for beautiful personalized cards that will be prized for years to come. If you're not artistic, there are many websites from which you can order custom-made invitations. Engraved invitations with stunning art work, pressed flowers, and fabric lined envelopes make an excellent and inspired choice.

Christmas, Halloween and Valentines Day Parties

Sugar cookie dough can be cut out in holiday shapes to make tasty invitations for holiday parties. Write your invite on top of super-sized cookies with colorful decorators frosting. Be sure to let the frosting dry before wrapping the delicious treat for delivery. This works best if the cookies are packed in pretty boxes and hand delivered by you.

How you create your unique invitation depends on what the occasion is, but there are loads of excellent and simple ideas on the internet, in magazines and in books. Be sure to check out all of your options before deciding on a final idea.