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Here is a selection of Q&As from Your North East Wedding magazine whether it be about flowers, hair and makeup, fashion, wedding themes, health & beauty, cakes, stationery, legal advice. If you would like your question answered by our experts, please email it to editor@yournortheast.wedding
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You're invited
| Q | I'm excited about our wedding and want everyone we love to be there. When should we send out invites, and what tips can you share when it comes to a bespoke design? |
| A | Helen Medhurst says: I recommend sending invitations six to eight months before your wedding, but check with your venue when they need final numbers. Think about sending Save The Dates around 12 to 18 months, too, so everyone can mark the date in their diaries. Your invitations will be the first impression guests have of your wedding, so you want to set the tone. Think about the theme and style – is it rustic and lace, bold and bling or elegantly understated? Gather ideas on Pinterest so your stationer can get a sense of your style and create something unique. You could even include symbols or themes for personalised stationery, like tiny paw prints on a dog-loving couples' invitations, or ticketstub invites for cinema lovers! |
Helen Medhurst, The Little Love Card Company
Write on
| Q | What styles and designs are set to be popular in 2023 for wedding stationery? |
| A | Victoria Jamieson says: Next year we'll be seeing richer and brighter colours, along with retro palettes. Darker, deep hues are still popular, such as black, navy, burgundy and emerald, but bright and bold are also edging in. Colour is making a comeback, with fuchsia pinks, bright yellows and turquoise blues. Think statement colours with lots of space, combining minimalism with textures, bold patterns, white ink and of course foil. Calligraphy and script fonts are starting to move out of the way for bolder, simpler and printed typography. This, along with the stronger shades, are creating cleaner and more simple designs. Pocket-folds will always be popular, but layering card stocks and textures alongside simple designs like Z-folds are gaining more popularity. To accompany the simpler invites, couples are also upgrading their envelopes with liners and bold contrasting colours and textures. |
Victoria Jamieson, Victoria’s Paperie & Design
Your type on paper
| Q | What styles and designs are set to be popular in 2022? |
| A | Sarah Cox says: Sustainability is a major trend throughout wedding planning in 2022, and this includes stationery. Most save-the-date pieces and invitations are made using card, but couples are opting for recycled materials or plantable seed paper as an alternative. Other trends will be the use of vellum paper, which adds a soft and modern touch to stationery and its versatility allows it to be used alone or teamed up with a wax seal or other embellishments. There are more requests for simple-style stationery with modern calligraphy, fuss-free detailing, extra white space and the use of a single bold colour to make the stationery pop. |
Sarah Cox, Sarah Alexis Stationery
