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Invitation advice

We’re here to help you with wedding invitation wording and wedding invitation advice for all your sticky, awkward situations.

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9 design apps for DIY wedding invitations (4 are FREE!)

Feeling the design spirit and want to try making DIY wedding invitations? We love this for you! You’ll need some tools to make this happen, so let’s talk wedding invitation design software, including 5 FREE options.

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5 common mistakes when addressing & mailing wedding invitations

At one point, I spent about a year working on improvements to the code for postal address recognition (in a couple different countries; it’s customized a lot for each country, but the basic ideas and system are the same).  Based on that experience, here’s my advice to help your letters get where you want them to as quickly as possible…

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How we worded the invitations for our crowdsourced wedding

We have decided to crowdfund our wedding. It won’t pay for everything, but it does mean we can focus on having a good time rather than scrimping and saving on every little thing. The tricky part was wording everything right on the invitations, so we didn’t come off as stingy or cheap. I wrote a little poem to explain the crowdfunding. If anyone wants it, they can steal it…

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How to tell your family that your wedding will be adults-only

I want to send an email to our family members letting them know that the wedding will be adults only. While I still can’t control the way anybody interprets the message, doing it this way at least allows us to control the words that they see/hear. This was really difficult to write, but here’s what I’ve come up with…