The Best Wedding Invitations of Long Island

It’s not the quantity, nor is it the quality; it’s the amount of quality that you get with a large quality that matters when you’re talking about wedding invitations. Planning your wedding invitations is much of the same breed as attempting to find the perfect mathematical or scientific equation for balance. In this cause it’s: (quality + quantity = success). You want to be able to make sure that all of your friends and loved ones receive invitations that express how important they are; at the same time you want to make sure you can afford all of the invitations that you want to send people. I’m going to use Long Island as a location and example of the best wedding invitations that are both affordable and beautiful. Below are things that these wedding invitations take into consideration:



1) How many colors do you actually need in your invitation?

This is important because the more colors that you have on your invitation, the more expensive it is. Most print shops and print services charge considerably more for four color process printing rather than two color printing. If you can limit your wedding palette to two specific colors that you and your spouse agree on (aside from black and white) you’re well on your way to saving money. Using less colors makes it easier for your wedding invitations to carry a symbolic message rather than have a myriad of colors that don’t make much sense when put together on an invitation.


2) Do you want to use photography in your invitation?

Photography is a double edged sword with wedding invitations. Sometimes the use of photographs as a collage for wedding invitations give a cheesy and very impersonal attitude. However; when done correctly, a single photograph of either an iconic scene in regards to the couple getting married, or perhaps even a picture of the couple itself taken by a professional photographer, can serve as an excellent wedding invitation.


3) Where are you getting you invitations printed from?

This also has to do with the printing process once more; the type of paper that you decide to get your invitations printed on will affect the price. Most private print shops I found in long island would make an attempt to get you to buy over priced paper. To avoid this situation, you should find a student graphic designer or print designer from an accredited design school and ask them to make and format your invitations. This way you can take them to a staples or a kinkos and have them printed on the same quality paper at a considerably lower price.


4) Are you buying a stock set of wedding invitations from a company?

Also a double edged sword, buying stock wedding invitations can save you the trouble of sizing and printing your own invitations, but you lose the ability to customize them to make them personable; however I found that some services of wedding invitations in long island offered a large variety of creative invitations so that finding something personal was easy enough.


Though this article is based largely on my experience of wedding invitations in Long Island, it applies to wedding invitations everywhere and if you’re going to get married you should take all of the points in this article into account. Good luck and lead long happy marriages!.