Wedding Invitation Printing – It’s All in the Details

Oct 25, 2009

Choosing your wedding invitation design is just the beginning. Important details for your imprinting, such as typestyle and ink color, also need to be selected. You probably won't give much thought to these selections until you actually go through the process of designing and ordering your invitations but you want to be prepared.

Here are a number of particulars to keep in mind when choosing your lettering style...

More and more modern wedding invitations are incorporating two lettering styles usually with the bride and groom's names appearing in a distinguished font. When shopping for your invites, it will be specified if one or two lettering styles can be printed on that particular design.
If choosing a fancier typestyle, be sure to look over all the letters making sure your guests will be able to easily read them whether they appear in upper or lower case.
Lettering styles can have their own unique appearance in print - some look lighter and others show up as being bolder.
Some font styles are naturally larger in their appearance.
Certain typestyle choices are automatically in small caps meaning all letters appear as uppercase with normal capital letters appearing slightly larger.

As far as ink colors, again some modern wedding invitations are using two distinguished colors to highlight specific details including the bride and groom's names. If your wedding invites have a background or paper stock that is colored, the ability for your guests to read the printed information will depend on your chosen ink color so be careful with your selection.

When it comes to wedding invitation printing by a professional printer, you will be presented with all the different lettering styles and ink colors that are available for your chosen design. The provided sample invitations may come in very handy in making your choices since you may like how they look and can make your selections accordingly. The product information area for each invitation will list those specifics.