Wedding invitation should depict your character.

We choose many things quickly and that includes dress. But, we linger a lot while choosing wedding invitations and greeting cards. I would say it speaks for our love while trying to send the right greeting card that can clearly express our feelings.

Choosing a wedding invitation is a little more time consuming as this is a one-time event (hopefully) and we want it to remain in the receivers’ memory for a long time.

For my wedding, I had to compromise with my family’s choice. My regret deepened after I saw the wedding invitation that my husband made for his friends exclusively. He later told me that he designed the layout and wrote the content himself.

In today’s world, wedding invitations are elaborately decorated with gold linings and embedded with big pictures of Gods. They must cost a fortune.

I would it prefer it simple and the content should speak of the character of the bride/groom.

Where email fails…

At least once in a way, we all curse the technology which has taken over our way of living. We don’t use technology nowadays; they use us.

I hated myself today for depending so much on emails. Last month, I received through email two photo graduation announcements from two of my ex-students. The graduation party was held on last Sunday that I totally forgot to attend.

Had those photo graduation invitations been printed and sent through postal mail, my husband would have propped it up in a board that he specially installed. He used to paste wedding invitations on that board.

Paper printed invitations are not thrown away by us immediately. We keep them till the function is over.

Most of us tend to forget event dates that are stored in our indispensable ‘Inbox’. Even wedding invitations are being sent through email these days. Now, only Twitter is yet to be used to announce family events.

I have learnt a lesson today; what about you?