do invites have to match the color of your or your girls dress?- updated with pics of paper colors!!

Original post by JessicaM.

Nov 08, 2005 09:50 AM

someone please help. fh and I are in a battle royal with these invites (not really fighting, just have trouble deciding on something we both want)

I wish I had pics but I don't, but I want to use bronze metallic paper for the invite cardstock, with a vellum overlay flecked with silver, bronze, and gold. he thinks that will be too 'dark' for spring and wants to use a silver metallic vellum with an 'ocean blue' vellum overlay.

we are torn and my question is...will it matter if not much else in the wedding (beside the cps and stuff) is metallic to use the bronze paper?

are you girls matching your invites to your wedding colors (aqua and pink just don't seem to adequately convey the formality for me)

please help!

nicpizzo Posted: Nov 08, 2005 05:29 PM

Re: do invites have to match the color of your or your girls dress?- updated with pics of paper colors!!

They don't have to match, so don't go crazy.

shellnroc Posted: Nov 08, 2005 05:29 PM

Re: do invites have to match the color of your or your girls dress?- updated with pics of paper colors!!

Your invitations do not have to match your Bridal party.
It's what you prefer.

My girls are wearing silver and my invites will be silver or have silver in them.(I didn't get them yet)
But this is what I prefer. You have to do what makes you happy and of course FH.

JessicaM. Posted: Nov 08, 2005 07:12 PM

Re: do invites have to match the color of your or your girls dress?- updated with pics of paper colors!!

Posted by leese

jess:
you are my long-lost sister.

i was having issues about this too. my girls are in deep purple but i didn't want that to be my invites. but with my OCD, i really wanted things to flow well.

my compromise was having the antique gold (similar to Christine's).

in my lowly opinion, I feel that invitiations should be formal (if it is a formal affair) and that they don't have to match the 'color' scheme, but complement in some way.

i like the idea of setting it apart a bit.... I'm going to use the gold on all my 'paper' details and leave the purple for the dress and flowers.

I think you are right...maybe we were torn apart at birth! LOL

I am thinking maybe I can convince him of gold, since he seems to like metallic. I guess I'll have to buy MORE paper now (I've been buying different papers to try out the colors together)

Thanks ladies...I guess I never mentioned that I have mild OCD (I am completely serious too, as told by a shrink not my friends LOL) so I OBSESS over things until they are right. drives me nuts! (no pun intended)

Awhite80 Posted: Nov 08, 2005 08:10 PM

Re: do invites have to match the color of your or your girls dress?- updated with pics of paper colors!!

I agree with Leese

They don't have to match, but compliment them in some way.

I like the blue, but I think a goldish color would not only compliment, but also adds a bit of class. Gold transcends time.

Awhite80 Posted: Nov 08, 2005 08:11 PM

Re: do invites have to match the color of your or your girls dress?- updated with pics of paper colors!!

PS. Where are you ordering your pocketfolds from?

SummerBride06 Posted: Nov 08, 2005 08:11 PM

Re: do invites have to match the color of your or your girls dress?- updated with pics of paper colors!!

it doesn't need to match at all. do whatever you like best!

JennylovesBrian Posted: Nov 08, 2005 08:19 PM

Re: do invites have to match the color of your or your girls dress?- updated with pics of paper colors!!

This is why I have like 4 theme colours! :) Navy, lite Blue, Sliver, and white...my Invites are silver and navy and my girls are in lite blue...and will be hold white flowers with a navy or white ribbon.... It will all flow...its complicated yet pretty I think :D you can match in other ways without being too matchy.

BKtoLI Posted: Nov 08, 2005 11:23 PM

Re: do invites have to match the color of your or your girls dress?- updated with pics of paper colors!!

Umm I guess I am the same way because my invites match the dresses. And in a way I wish they didn't because I am rethinking the color scheme.

However I am stuck because FH would kill me if I ordered new invites!!!