Category Archives: Design Tips
Pockets that fit 5 x 7 Invitations? YES! We have them!

Your lovely invitations just arrived in the mail… But your new 5 x 7 invitations (also called A7 invitations) are too big to fit in your pocket folds. You’re not alone.  So many brides call us because this happens… All. The. Time. Most pocket brands are just too small to hold your invites, and you either have […]

Invitation Design That Sets the Mood for YOUR Wedding

Your invitation is one of the first things your guests will see to introduce them to your wedding. Invitations not only convey the time, date, and place, but also give guests some clues about the theme, formality, and mood of the event. In this article, we will explore how different fonts and layouts totally change […]

Top Trends – Favorite FREE Wedding Fonts

As promised, here’s our next installment on the Fonts series.  These are a few of our favorite Fancy fonts that you can download as a trial for free… And who doesn’t love FREE!  As a disclaimer, some of the free trial fonts may lacks some punctuation (see our tip at the end of this article). […]

Top Trends – Featuring our Favorite Flourished Wedding Fonts

Your invitation sets the mood for your entire celebration, so whether it’s for a wedding, birthday, Bar Mitzvah or Bat Mitzvah, anniversary or birth, the look of your invitation says as almost as much about the event as your wording does. Calligraphy-style fonts with lots of swirls and flourishes are very popular this year, and […]

{Designer Tools} Templates

We are excited to bring some new design tools to our website – FREE Downloadable templates. We have been working hard to put these new templates together and hope you find them helpful. We have templates for the casual user to print at home (MS Word) and for the professional designer for commercial printing (Adobe Illustrator).

Choosing Your Wedding Colors – Spring 2011

In honor of Fashion Week in NYC in February, we’ll take some tips from top designers and celebrate color!  Top designers are showing off their palettes for Fall 2011 this week (which we’ll review in the next few weeks… be sure to join us on FACEBOOK or TWITTER for article updates so you don’t miss […]

Embellishments 101: Adding BLING

We love invitations with bling, and now we have an easy way for you to do it at home.  We’ve put together a new BLING video with step-by step instructions, and we’ve also assembled everything you need in one kit, so you can easily and precisely adhere rhinestones at home right where you want them. […]

Envelope Icing – Elegant DIY Address Labels

Create unique and elegant address labels at home for your DIY Invitations. Part 1 is an overview of the hottest way to address your invitation envelopes. Part 2 is a step-by-step guide to creating these custom invitation labels at home.

Choosing Your Wedding Colors: Part 1 – Fall 2009

In honor of Fashion Week in NYC this week, we’ll take some tips from top designers and celebrate color!  Top designers are showing off their palettes for Spring 2010 this week (which we’ll review in the next few weeks… be sure to join us on FACEBOOK or TWITTER for article updates so you don’t miss […]

How to Load a Tape Gun

Check out the new video from Envelopments… how to load a tape gun! It’s a must when assembling your invitations.   You can also order tape and the tape gun for your projects here.

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