Formal wedding invitations tell your friends and family that your wedding will be fashionable, stylish and lavish. These invitations display a sense of class and sophistication. Formal wedding invitations signal to your guests that your wedding day is grand. They may be inclined to fuss about their appearance, buy the most upscale items in your wedding gift registry and treat the night like the social event it is.

When choosing your formal wedding invitations it is important to find something nice but also cost effective. There are many bells and whistles to the actual invitations that you may consider either absolutely necessary or not particularly important. Local print shops offer invitations, printed using lithography (flat ink) or thermography which offers economical raised lettering, although it is not as crisp as genuine engraving options. Local graphic designers or engravers can provide you with some high end custom invitations if you are willing to spend some money for quality. You may find specialty sites that specialize in one certain style of formal wedding invitations, for instance, Victorian-era inspired invitations.

Some sites will promote invitation kits to create your own handmade paper invitations, embedded with flower petals; vellum overlay paper, chiffon ribbon, and more. These have become increasingly popular in recent years with the rise of card making and scrap booking as craft hobbies. These create some nice formal wedding invitations with a personal touch but they are also time consuming and somewhat expensive. So, ask yourself if there is a reason to put time and money into that white lace trim around each invitation card? Many of your friends and family will unfortunately just discard the invitation to the trash or hurriedly shove it in their purse or bag once it serves its functional purpose of letting them know who is having a wedding, where that wedding is, what time to be there and the driving directions. Weddings are already expensive and stressful enough. So keep your formal wedding invitations subtle yet prominent.

Discount Wedding Invitations provide some very nice online formal wedding invitations. Popular formal wedding invitation themes, available through the site, are background images of crumpled blue and pink silk with a red ribbon and decorative swirls in gold and burgundy or black and white. Their website allows you to have creative control over your invitation. Your order isn’t shipped until you approve the final proof. The designers will work with you in creating an invitation that lives up to your vision and expectations and the final product is printed in full color on 7” x 5” single- sided durable card stock.