So many people don’t order enough invitations for their wedding, so how can you ensure you’re not one of these people?
Before you order the invitations you’re going to need to decide on the guest list. Since it’s not as simple as ordering the same number of invitations as there are for the people on your guest list you could end up being short on your wedding invitations in you’re not careful. So you’ll either not have enough to send out or you wouldn’t be able to keep the spares as a keepsake.
Step 1 – Deciding on your primary and back up list of wedding guests
While you were creating your guest list you probably had a list of people who you’d love to attend, they’re your most nearest and dearest, this is your primary guest list. You may also have a back up list, those you’d like to come but their isn’t enough room to invite them or your budget just can’t stretch that far. These guests on the back up list could come if some of the primary list couldn’t attend.
Your first step is to count up all the invitations you’ll need for your primary list, couples living together and young families will only need 1 invitation but if the children are adults but still living at home it might be a nice touch to invite them separately. So if you choose to invite a couple who’s child is 9, they will only need one invitation for your wedding, but if the child was 19 you should send them an invitation separately.
Step 2 – Adding in a congincy for you back up guests
You should then add another 20% on to the number of invitations you need for your primary guest list to send to those on your back up list once you have received RVSP from those who can’t attend. This should be enough to also leave you with a keepsake.
So if you needed a 100 invitations for your wedding to cover the primary guest list, you should order 120 to be on the safe side.
Step 3 – Add a few extra for when you make mistakes writing the wedding invitations
If you are handwriting the guests names you may want to order a few more in case you make spelling mistakes. I always the find the more important it is for my writing to be perfect, the more prone I am to making mistakes.
