Unique Wedding Invitations and Ideas

Craft stores are great places to get ideas for unusual wedding invitations. The scrapbooking isles have a seemingly endless supply of embellishments, ribbons, natural papers and stickers. There are isles with silk flowers and they also have a great selection of beading and jewelry making supplies. Using these supplies are wonderful ways to create invitations that are unique to the individual bride and groom.

Beach Wedding Invitations

White glue can be brushed around the outside edges (about 1/2") of a flat, printed wedding invitation (on card stock). Then sand should be sprinkled over the glue, allowed to dry and any excess brushed away. Small shells can be affixed to a few of the corners with hot glue, if desired.

Using Flowers on Invitations

The invitation should be printed on a sheet of white (or light colored) paper, that is 1-1/2" smaller (both ways) than the underlying, dark or natural paper. Then the light paper should be placed over the dark paper and centered and affixed with a dot of hot glue to hold it in place temporarily. A hole should be punched through both pieces of paper in the top middle. A paper flower that matches the wedding flowers can be attached to the cards with a colored brad (both are available at craft stores) through the holes.
Using the same method as above for the paper, two holes can be punched in the top of the papers instead of one. The stem of a wedding flower can then be fed through the holes to attach the two pieces together.

Unusual Wedding Invitations – Hobby or Activity Inspired

Even if a wedding isn't themed, a favorite hobby or activity that brought the couple together or that they share an interest in could be used for the invitation. A couple who likes to scuba-dive could use pictures of their adventures as a backdrop printed piece with a sheer invitation over it. A couple who enjoys gardening together could make the wedding invitations look like seed packets, inserting bird seed to be used at the wedding instead of throwing rice (or seeds to be planted and grown into a plant in the couple's honor).

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