There are three quick questions to find your wedding stationery style. Each of these questions will help you learn a little more about what you have envisioned for your stationery and ultimately help you discover your stationery style.
Why is this important?
There are soooooo many different styles available for your wedding stationery! Having a better idea of what you’re drawn to and the styles you like the best will help you narrow down your search.
If you’re looking for something semi-custom, it’ll help you decide what design style to look for. While if you’re interested in custom stationery, these questions will help you communicate what you’re looking for to your designer for a smooth design experience.
Let’s get to it! Here are the three magic questions to ask yourself to help find your stationery style:
- How would I describe my dream wedding stationery in three words?
- How do I want our guests to feel while attending our wedding?
- What colors + styles do I like the most?
These three simple little questions will tell you a lot about what you have envisioned for not only your wedding stationery, but your entire wedding day.
Let’s start by chatting about question number one:
How would you describe your dream wedding stationery in three words?
This first question is super helpful to finding your stationery style. Your answers will give you some focus for what you have envisioned for your wedding stationery and even your wedding day as a whole!
Over the years, I’ve had couples describe their dream stationery in soooooo many different ways!
Here are a few popular ways you could describe your wedding stationery:
- Traditional
- Timeless
- Elegant
- Modern
- Classic
- Whimsical
- Romantic
- Minimalistic
- Vintage
That’s just to name a few!
As a stationery designer, all of these words are incredibly helpful to get a better feel for what you’re looking for. It’s amazing how each descriptor immediately can tell me what style of fonts you might prefer and a color palette you might enjoy, as well.
What is even better, is if you can describe your wedding stationery in a way that is a little more unique to you.
For example, here are a few creative ways couples have described their stationery:
- California Modern
- Creative Coastal
- Country Chic
- Rustic Modern
- Minimalist Texture
- Soft + Airy
Again, these are just a few fun ways you could get a lil’ creative with how you describe your stationery. Give it some time and really think about it! Any words or phrases you can come up with will help you find your style and your dream wedding stationery that much easier.
When you decide to get started, a lot of times semi-custom designs will be organized by style. Having your key words handy will help you filter out the styles you definitely aren’t interested in and only focus on the designs that align with your vision.
With custom stationery, your designer might ask you this exact question — describe your dream wedding stationery. That’s because, the words or phrases you use help them envision exactly what you’re looking for and can help give you a really streamlined + smooth design experience.
No matter which design experience you’re most interested in, answering this first question will be super helpful as you start designing your wedding stationery!
If you feel stuck, maybe this next question can help you get some traction:
How do you want your guests to feel while attending your wedding?
Another great question to know before you start designing your invitations! The first question will help you get a feel for what you have envisioned overall. This question will tell you more about how you want your wedding day to feel, which can also help you find your stationery style.
For a lot of us, when we think about our wedding day, we often think first about how we want to feel. It is your big day after all!
Your wedding day is also a wonderful celebration and quite literally a big party for your guests to enjoy, as well. Think of it as sort of a “thank you” for being a part of your wedding and supporting you up to this moment and in the future.
With that in mind, how do you want to say “thank you”? How do you want your guests to feel?
Here are a few examples of how your wedding could feel:
Perhaps you want it to be a big dance party where everyone can just enjoy themselves and let loose a little, even just for one night. In that case, maybe you’d like them to feel:
- Joyful
- Relaxed
- Fun
Instead, maybe you’re planning to have an intimate wedding with just a handful of close family and friends. You really want the focus to be on connecting with everyone and creating lasting memories together. This style of wedding may have everyone feeling:
- Warm
- Intimate
- Welcoming
Last, picture your wedding taking place in a romantic garden. Lots of florals and greenery everywhere, while beautiful candles on all of the tables and the floor. It should feel like a secret garden where everyone can chat and enjoy time together. This type of wedding may feel like:
- Romantic
- Whimsical
- Secret Garden
Start by thinking about what all you have envisioned for your big day and how you’d like it to feel for yourself. From there, how would you like your guests to feel, as well? What will their experience be on your wedding day?
Just like the words you used to describe your wedding stationery, knowing how you want the day to feel will also share a lot about what your stationery design could potentially look like!
Fonts, colors, layouts, graphics, illustrations, all of it creates a feeling when it comes together. We want the feeling of your wedding stationery to reflect your big day. It is the first impression, after all!
Ready for the last question?
What colors + styles are you most drawn to?
This question is so much fun! This will help you decide what you want your invitations to look like before you even start designing. Maybe not the entire design, necessarily, but for your designer it can help determine your stationery style.
As you’re planning your big day, you’re thinking through all kinds of different details
The linens, flower arrangements, place settings, bar design, bridesmaid dresses, groomsmen suites. All of these will have their own unique colors + styles that coordinate together to bring your wedding day to life.
Flowers
What colors do you like?
Are there styles of flowers you gravitate towards?
Which flower arrangements do you like best?
Bridesmaid Dresses
Is everyone going to be in the same style dress?
Maybe the colors will be slightly different?
Linens
Will they all be a solid color?
Maybe a fun texture, like velvet or silk?
Perhaps they’ll have fun patterns?
All of these details — the colors, patterns, textures, arrangements, styles, etc. — are all so incredibly helpful as you begin designing your wedding stationery and figuring out your stationery style.
A lot of these design elements can be carried through your save the dates, invitations and even your day-of designs. This is such a fun way to carry the look + feel all the way through your wedding day from start to finish.
Knowing what colors and styles you’re drawn to for your wedding day are perfect to include in your wedding stationery, too!
Another quick tip while you’re searching for your wedding stationery
Use your colors + styles to narrow your search. Sometimes, semi-custom designs might be organized by color or even styles, such as floral, modern, patterned, minimalistic, etc. Some custom designers might specialize in one style vs. another. This can help you narrow your search and find a stationery design that truly reflects your style + personality!
Have your answers ready? What’s next?
First, take your time! There’s no rush. While it’s helpful to know all of these things before you start designing your invitations, you don’t have to have it all figured out by day one of planning!
As you think about your answers to these three questions, write them down! Put them in a note on your phone or your cute new wedding planner. Anywhere where you can come back to your thoughts when you’re ready to start your wedding stationery.
These will be so helpful as you begin designing your wedding stationery whenever you’re ready.
Share your answers with your stationery designer
If you’re working with a wedding stationery designer for either custom or semi-custom stationery be sure to share your answers with them before you start designing. They will love it so much and it will truly help to create a smooth design experience for both yourself + your designer.
As you get started, tell them all about the words you’d use to describe:
- Your dream stationery
- How you want your guests to feel on the day-of
- The colors + styles your drawn to the most
All of these details will help create wedding stationery that truly reflects you and help communicate what you have envisioned for your stationery design.
Not sure which stationery experience is a good fit for you? That’s okay! Learn more about custom and semi-custom wedding stationery on my website to decide which feels like a good fit for you. I even have a blog post — The 3 Main Wedding Stationery Experiences — to help you compare.
Use your answers to choose your stationery designs
Now, if you’re not planning to work with a wedding stationery designer and prefer to order your designs online, you can still use your responses to help guide you!
Have your answers handy so you can refer to them as you start browsing designs. Use the key words you wrote down to describe your dream stationery to help filter the design options.
From there, browse and see how you feel while looking at designs. How you feel is a good indicator of how your guests will feel seeing your design, too.
Then, see if you can adjust any of the colors or find a design with a style + graphics that you like. You can even narrow your search by specific colors + styles you like best, such as “floral” or “minimalistic”.
All of your responses to the questions will help you find the perfect stationery design for you.
Having trouble finding the perfect design? Maybe a semi-custom design would be a better fit, where you can customize the look + feel a little more. Or, perhaps you’d like to start completely from scratch and design something fully custom! These are great options if you’re searching + searching and not quite finding the design for you.
Ready to get started designing your wedding stationery?
Now that you have a better feel for your wedding stationery style, you’re all set to start designing!
If you’re looking to choose a design that reflects your style, I highly recommend semi-custom wedding stationery. With this experience, you can customize your stationery to reflect you while keeping your design budget-friendly.
On the other hand, if you prefer something fully custom-made for you, custom wedding stationery is the way to go. You’ll work closely with a designer — like myself! — to create a design completely from scratch based on all the answers to these questions. So, be sure to share your responses with your designer as you get started. It’ll help your overall design experience be extremely streamlined + smooth from start to finish.
No matter which experience you choose, knowing the answers to these three simple questions will help you get started. Better yet, you’ll be able to create your dream wedding stationery that is truly a style that reflects you + your wedding day!
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