/EINPresswire.com/ A new trend in wedding invitations is the storytelling invitation, which recounts for guests at least a portion of the couple’s courtship. These invitations can easily be made at home using blank invitation paper and a digital printer.
Martha Stewart and Emily Post have a format for wedding invitations so specific that it lays down what should appear in each line. First, the host line typically states the names of the bride’s parents. Then comes the request line, which makes the actual request for the recipient to attend. After that, and only after that, can the bride and groom’s names appear. This format is fine for those couples who want to be formal and traditional. But for those with divorced parents, no parents, same-sex parents, estranged parents, or remarried parents, the trouble starts at the first line.
Modern couples are instead embracing the storytelling invitation, a non-traditional way to ask guests to share the day with them. Storytelling invitations bear none of the hallmarks of traditional invitations, instead allowing the bride and groom to include as many lines as they want to tell their love story.
The trend seems to have taken hold shortly after Matt Dorfman, a designer for the New York Times, posted his wedding invitation online. Using different fonts and shapes, the invitation recounted the long-distance, seven year courtship that led to his wedding. The invitation not only showcased Matt’s design skills, but also gave friends and family an idea of the many changes in circumstance that led to the nuptials.
“There was a time where most people met in a few specific ways. In the 50s, either people met as high school sweethearts, college classmates, or maybe they attended the same church. These days, when twenty percent of couples are meeting online, it can be hard for friends and family to follow every development in each other’s love lives,” said Cindy Crots of CutCardStock.com. The site offers invitation supplies, like invitation envelopes, as well as card stock in various colors and sizes.
Though Dorfman is in design as a career, his techniques can be used by non-professionals. Future brides can easily create a storytelling invitation themselves, using blank invitation paper and a good quality printer.
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