When you're sending out wedding invitations, while you do want your invitees to get all the details they need such as date, time, and location, what you really want is for them to receive a beautifully crafted package that represents the personalities of you and your fiancé. It can be incredibly difficult to craft an invitation that looks cool and provides guests with the information they need. So, today we're bringing you a selection of some of the most unique invitations we've seen out there for your inspiration.
Balloon Save the Date
I think this idea for a Save the Date is a lot of fun. If you want something that people haven't done before, and your guests to be wow'd...definitely send them a balloon with all the details for your special day.
Paper Record Player Invitation
The designer explains this invitation perfectly, saying, "in the booklet-style invitation, a bit of paper-folding amplifies the sound of a sewing needle moving along the grooves of a flexidisc record. The hand-spun record yields a garbled, but scrutable listening of an original song by the couple. It requires a bit of tinkering and folding —effectively championing the inner science-nerd kid in the recipient. The whole thing serves as an interactive packaging for the song—which can be experienced on the paper record player, unscrewed + set on a regular turntable, or enjoyed online (for the non-nerds and/or audiophiles out there.)"
Adventure for Two: Wedding Invitation Suite
Do you love travel and adventure? Kitkat Pecson designed these unique travel themed wedding invitations for an adventurous couple. What makes these invitations so special is that they feature different places the couple has traveled together and key milestones in their relationship in those places (which are described in the legend at the bottom of the invite). You don't have to have traveled all over the world, but anywhere you two have had special moments can be shared on your invitations.
Join us in the woods: Invitation Suite
This amazing couple created DIY invitations and rented a laser cutter/engraver to help them create the cool 3D effect you'll see in their invites. Ian Collins, the groom, explains that, "Our wedding was in the woods, and we hoped the pop-up trees would give our prospective guests a taste of event they would be attending. An accordion-style field-guide was also included, with illustrations done by my wife of local plants and animals." This couple really knocked it out of the park by creating some VERY special invites.
Getting Hitched: Wedding Invite Boxes
The best way to describe these invitations is actually in the words of the bride. Designed by Charlotte Fosdike, the bride, explains, "I knew that I wanted our wedding invitations to be something that our friends and family would remember and hold on to, long after the wedding. I also wanted the invitation to deliver the essence of what we are as a couple. We are both highly adventurous people - we love traveling, discovering new foods, going to markets, meeting new people and exploring the world with all of our senses. I hence decided to create an invitation that would give our guests a small taste of us and to share with them the treasures of new and exciting flavours. It would deliver beyond visual representation by including interactive packaging to appeal to touch and a mixed array of spices in the packets to delight through scent and taste." These ingenious invitations created by the couple, feature a box with specially selected spices.
