If you’ve ever scrolled through Pinterest and been enthralled by wedding invitation suites that look perfectly coordinated yet elegantly mismatched, you’re not alone! Mixing and matching pieces of your invitation suite to create an expert grouping is truly an art form. If you want to design your invitations on your own, or are looking for how to create that perfect mix and match for your wedding, read on to see how!
Pro tip: Are you still asking yourself what is in an invitation suite? Have no fear, we’re here to tell you! An invitation suite includes all the products that go into the envelopes that you send out to your guests. This can include but is not limited to, the invitation, an rsvp card, a detail or enclosure card, stickers, labels, belly bands, and the envelope. If you want to make everything extra coordinated, shop for save the dates and thank you cards that follow into the same collection as your invitation suite! Keeping the colors, theme, and style cohesive will really bring your wedding vision together from start to finish.
- Coordinating Colors – When putting together the different pieces of your invitation suite, don’t be afraid to use multiple colors! Anywhere from the envelope to the text is an opportunity to feature different, coordinating colors. Pick a few colors and mix and match them throughout your wedding invitation suite to get the best variety. Pro tip: If you’re using more than two colors, make sure they aren’t too bold or saturated. Having multiple bright colors will overwhelm the eye and make your invitation suite look visually too busy.
- Use the Same Design Elements in Different Places – Let’s say you find a design that features a beautiful floral design element. Instead of customizing an RSVP card, envelope and details card all with that same element in the exact same place, consider moving it to a different place, rotating it or resizing it. Your invitation suite will look cohesive together without it appearing to be a complete copy and paste of each piece.
- Font Pairings – While it works for some designs, in most invitation suites using one font throughout can be very monotonous. The way around that is fairly easy and simply requires you to pair more than one font with others. For people who haven’t designed before, it might seem overwhelming to try and figure out what fonts go together and which don’t, but with some trial and error, anyone can do it! For a few recommendations to begin with, choose fonts in one “mood” like simple vs. ornate, try fonts in the same family but of different versions like “condensed” or “bold” or pair a serif font with a sans serif font. Want more information about pairing fonts together? Check out our post about how to create designs with different font pairings!
- Try Different Background Colors – If you find a great color background that you want to use in your wedding invitation suite, that’s great! But, you can make it even better by using different colors or tints that coordinate with the main color you’ve chosen. Keep the color wheel in mind when picking a coordinating color – yellow pairs well with violet, blue pairs with orange, etc. You could also simply adjust the hues of your main color to make it lighter, darker or more vs. less saturated. That way your invitation suite will look very well coordinated, but you’ll still have some color variation.
- Mix it Up – Think of your wedding invitation suite like you’re decorating a room. If you like roses, would you cover every surface of your room in roses? Probably not! But you probably would choose some similar colors or textures to pair with roses, and then let the roses stand out in a few key places. Use that same mindset when it comes to your invitation suite. Don’t flood your guests with images of roses (or another design element) on every piece of your invitation suite, but include them subtly and tastefully.
With a few key design tips in mind, you can easily have an Instagram-worthy mix and matched wedding invitation suites! Thinking about sending electronic save the dates or invitations? These tips apply to you too! Hop on over to Zazzle’s easy-to-use design tool to create the virtual wedding suite of your dreams!
Erika focuses on email marketing, copywriting and merchandising at Zazzle, but she has a secret obsession with all things wedding! During the week you can find her writing punny subject lines while also pinning the latest wedding trends, and outside of the 9-5, she is usually cheering on the San Jose Sharks, reading a good murder mystery, or hunting for the best Philly Cheesesteak in the Bay Area.
