Sometimes you want more than a wedding invitation with gorgeous typography and colours - you want it to mean something to you as a couple.You want it to reflect your personalities, and give an idea of the kind of relationship you have. This normally can only be achieved by ordering bespoke stationery through a designer, but if you’re very creative, you can even produce your own.

Snapshot
A photograph that you both love, perhaps a moment on holiday, or an unguarded moment of happiness, or a montage of photographs capturing your lives together. Two photographs of you as children can be a cute idea for invitations. If you like the idea of a personal photo, but have nothing suitable, here’s some ideas of subjects you can shoot:
- the wedding venue eg: a black&white picture of the church or country house
- the location - a local landmark from your hometown, the seaside, a country meadow…
- your names drawn in sand on a beach
- your names carved in wood on a tree
- scrabble letters joined to make your names
- take a picture of the two of you hugging but cropping of the faces, or taken from behind
- the place you first met
(Tip: Scissor Paper Stone offers a “snapshot service” - creating a postcard from a photograph you send them for only an additional £10 to cover artworking costs)

Words
You should always word your wedding stationary how you want to - if you’re not having a traditional wedding you can ignore the rules of “request the pleasure of your company…” Try “we’re delighted to invite” instead - its more personal and less formal. You can also use wording as the basis of your invitation design:
- your initials designed as a monogram for all your stationery
- a story on the front of the invitation of how you met in your own handwriting
- a quote from a poem, song or book you love
- part of your wedding vows if you wrote them yourselves

Graphics
Take something you are both passionate about and use that as a basis for the design - it could be anything from an era like the 60’s and pop art, music and film, a culture you love and perhaps has inspired other details in your wedding.