Wedding Invitations 

The wedding invitation is the first impression your guests get about your wedding. It is not only a means of announcing your wedding but is also informs your guest as to what to expect at the ceremony.

Wedding invitations are meant to express the new beginning of the couple. Protocol for wedding invitations is no longer the same standards as in the past. Invitations can be created with personalized themes, colors, and sayings. Make the invitation as unique as the beginning of the union between the couple. After the theme of the wedding is selected, the decision to create the invitation will be easier. Most prospected brides carry the wedding theme onto the invitations giving the guests a taste of the celebration yet to come. 

To add an additional touch to the invitations, we may add couple’s photos on the invitation. This creates a unique touch to the invitation by allowing the guests to see the expressions of love between the couple.

Beach wedding Invite

Make the wedding invitation a spectacular presentation which will become a cherish memory for many years... Here are some tips from Tranquiil Weddings to make your wedding card talk of  the town.

• The number of invitations to send. This obviously will depend on the number of guests you are inviting. Know your guest and find out how many families you are inviting. one family should only be sent one invitation. So for a guest of about 180, you might only need about 100 – 140 invitations.
• Send your invitations early. Give your guest ample notification of your big day let your guests plan to attend your wedding well in advance.
• Always make a couple of extra invitations just in case you forgot someone earlier on.
• Decide in advance how much you really want to spend for an invitation card, you can always decide between mass production cards or customized cards for your wedding. 

   

Types of  wedding invitations :

Wedding invitations not only let others know about your wedding, but they give an important preview as to the style of the event. Wedding invitations come in a few basic varieties, each of which says something different about the wedding.

Email Invitations:

Email invitation is the coolest method to utter you are capturing a submerge the marriage. Sending your invitations with a click of a button definitely beats the hours spent sitting on the floor with envelopes and stamps. Having complete online access to your personal wedding page to see who has RSVP'd is a must have.

Your email correspondence invitations may strike the glossiest paper that would type a crater your pocket. You suffer got hold of scores of plot preferences as well as customized color choices. With e-invitation, you are liberal to slogan your marriage ceremony invitation wordings. If you may possibly give music to your e-invitation, it will engagement an audio-visual investigate to the guests. The everything greenhorn funky with ostentatious glance is positive to dazzle the recipient.

Email Invitation

Wedding Website- Wedsite:

Very innovative way to attract your guests is to create your wedding website as soon as you get engaged and share the happy news with your family and friends.

Following are some points you should add to your wedsite:

· Home

· Bride’s Family

· Groom’s Family

· Venue: Details about venue for different functions

· Wedding Events: Invite your guests to pre-wedding and post wedding events on your “Wedding Events” page.

· Photo Gallery: share photos from pre-wedding events, like the engagement party and the bridal shower!

· You must carry (if it’s a destination wedding to make your guest’s trip as worry-free and as enjoyable as possible!)

· Feedback: Know who has stopped by your wedsite when they sign your guestbook with well wishes and excitement! 

Mobile Invitations :

Make your wedding memorable by sending Mobile Wedding Invitations to guests. A personal video invite to guests will make them feel special & they will always memorize this royal way of invitation. Its a unique & innovative way to invite your guests. Huge distances can't stop the timely delivery of Mobile Invite to guests, its as good as meeting in person.

Mobile wedding invitaion by creative wedding cards

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Additions to Your Invitation :

If you want to keep a coherent theme throughout the wedding, you might want to consider a few of the basic stationary types that tend to accompany the invitations themselves. There are many extra items which you might want to consider, like save the card, wedding itinerary & envelopes. Also if you planning for a destination wedding then you should also consider stationery like bag tags, key card holder, door handle, customized tissues which gives special personalized touch to your destination wedding.

Wedding stationary

Save the date cards :

The save the date announcement is likely the first item that you will send out for your wedding. These cards can be simple or complex, but they exist only to allow those on your invite list a chance to circle the date on the calendar. It is not necessary to include the location of the wedding or any other arrangements, but it is necessary to send these cards out to anyone who will be invited to the wedding. Most of the concerns that apply to the invitations apply here, so be careful.

Save the date

Some cool ideas for your wedding invitation:

Thank you cards :

As much as any other event, weddings are associated with thank you notes. It is de rigueur to send personalized thank you notes to all of your wedding guests. each thank you note you write should be personalized to express the gratitude felt to each individual, if you planning to give any return gift along with your thank you card then nothing better than giving guests their own photograph clicked at your wedding.

Right from Conceptualizing to Designing & Delivering, we provide you with an array of elegant, stylish and trendy designs to choose from. Contact us today to design invitations which will add momentous occasions to your special day. 

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Photo booth in Weddings - An element of fun...!!!

Have you thought about doing a Photo booth at your wedding? It's definitely a great way to get your guests get up & mingle during your wedding & greatest way to give them an alternative who don't want to dance till the end.

If you're planning on doing a Photo booth in your wedding, think about the style of your wedding, how can you incorporate that into your booth? Perhaps, you want to add in something else that you love. For instance, if you love the mountains or the rich green & yellow fields, then the first thing that hits any Indians mind is the DDLJ backdrop. Another option for a backdrop that could go as a hit can be the couple's photo's & their records.

Infact, having a Photo booth at your reception creates quite phenomena at times. Imagine, lines of guests dressing up in varieties of props & costumes... Ahhh!!! what a sight! All of them, squeezing into the booth & smiling their best & laughing & staggering at each other. With so much buzz about these booths, we had to ask ourselves "Is the wedding photo booth just an element of craze? or is it going to stay in the minds of our guests?

The Booth

You can rent a photo booth or hire someone to set up a traditional booth at your reception, but you can also do it yourself. Your set up doesn't even need to look like a booth! Create one using simple backdrop against which your guests can at least click interesting snaps. Fabric, curtains, streamers, ribbons, decorated cardboards, wrapping papers, fringes or plywood works well with a photo booth. 

The Props

Using props in your photo booth can result in some hilarious or very sweet photos. Some props that works great includes hats, bows, scarves, glasses, masks, silly lips or googly glasses, jewellery, clown hat, funny noses, fans, frames, disco balls etc...

The Poses
Most of your guests will be creative enough to come up with their own set of poses...especially with the female category. But if not, there are ways to inspire some funny poses. You can create a list of poses from where they can pick & choose to act out in their photos...
- Goofy
- Gangster
- Romantic
- Too Cool
- Sexy
- Dance
- Clown

Infact, it all just depends on the props you use!

Go ahead... & try out having a photo opportunity area in your wedding & your guests will surely take good memories back with them...

Wedding Favors

Wedding Favors, meant to thank your guests for attending your wedding, choosing wedding favors is not an easy task. Guests may forget the décor at your wedding but wedding favors well chosen will be around to remind guests of your wedding for years to come.

The custom of wedding favors in weddings & private events originated from European countries, where the wealthy aristocrats of olden times gave wedding favors to acknowledge each guests for attending their ceremonies.

Wedding favors are the take-home reminder of your wedding, a small object that should bring back all the good memories of your wedding that your guests have experienced.

Lantern with Candles

Candles

But how do you go about choose a wedding favor that does not go in the trash as soon as guests get home? Remember, guests are much more likely to keep useful favors than the ones just look nice. Choose your wedding favor carefully; plan your budget before you start looking for one.  If you have a wedding theme, be sure to find favors that reflect that theme. That way, the favors will automatically bring back memories of your wedding.

Theme Based Wedding Favors

We have noticed that homemade wedding favors are much more likely to be treasured by your guests than something ready-made.

Bottle of Honey

Scented Lotions

Marshmallows

Coffee 

Style of Packaging

If you choose your wedding favors wisely, your guests will have a wonderful and meaningful reminder of the day as well. Choosing wedding favors can be a lot of fun, so be creative, let your personality shine, and enjoy this part of the process.

Wedding Food Palette

“Good Food, Good Life”. Every wedding guest secretly hopes for amazing food. Make your wedding meals memorable and have your guests licking their lips. A little menu planning can easily woo your guests.

Start looking for your caterer at the same time as you are looking at venues for your wedding ceremonies as these two aspects go hand in hand. Now a day’s most of the venues have a monopoly in terms of Catering & Decorators. All your five star hotels will manage catering themselves & the rest i.e., Clubs & Gymkhanas  open grounds, banqueting venues will have panel of caterers for you to choose.

In today’s time, caterers have a huge spread of buffet to offer to you.

Breakfast – it’s for an intimate gathering as this is an early event. In fact, it may even be early for late-sleeping to attend. This is an inexpensive option. Now a day guests look at lighter and healthier breakfast options.

Lunch – Quality & simplicity describes this buffet spread. Lunch is still less expensive than dinner. Coolants are a must as lunch time is always warm.

Hi-tea – although this is a delightful spread yet does not provide a full meal for guests because this is a shorter reception

Dinner – the very nature of this buffet spread offers something for everyone. Now a days we have dinner food stations i.e., buffet tables scattered around the reception area, each with a different specialty of food, is a delight.  This style of spread provides a variety for wedding guests to sample foods from each station.  This is the most expensive wedding spread.

Another way to serve your wedding guests is the classic style wedding sit down dinner which gives you the opportunity to have waiters serve your guests. Everyone eats together at the same time; therefore this is a much more elegant option. This option is not at all cheap and guests will also have limited selection of food.

We believe one should first freeze on their ceremonial themes and then design the food menu. Designing the food spread as per the decided theme enhances the elegance of your ceremony & adds loads of fun to the same.

Creating different Food Bars have become a trend, as guests superbly enjoy the same. Also have food bars where the guests get to create their own dish. For e.g. – a fabulous fresh fruit juice bar, charming little biscuit bar with fresh honey, build your own pizza station, fancy grilled cheese bar, build your own taco bar etc…

Take care of small aspects of the buffet spread, like the serving style/ presentation of the food, introduce new food ideas/new dishes or same dishes in new sauces, switch your seating from theatre & round table style, add local & seasonal flavors to the food, make sure you add dishes in different sauces & colored gravy’s to your spread… all this definitely enhances the deliciousness of your wedding food spread..