Bumpercards Stationery Blog

Choosing a theme and/or a color scheme may be the easiest part for you or the biggest challenge. However, once you do this it is much easier to plan every detail from invitations to flowers and centerpieces to the dinner menu.

• It may be helpful to start off by looking at invitations. Your invitations are the first impression of your wedding or Bar Mitzvah and you want it to have your personality whether that is formal and traditional or contemporary and playful.

• If you decide on an invitation style then many other ancillary items can be matched; Response set, thank you notes or informals, menus, place cards, table numbers, programs, party favors, etc.

• You may also want your invitation style to carry into your centerpieces, floral design, linens and napkins.

• One other theme area is food. You may want to have food stations or cocktails and appetizers in a theme. For example for more retro theme you may want mini mac ‘n cheese or French fries with pesto dip or a sushi bar and dim sum table or a make your own smores bar. If your tastes are classic some traditional favorites may be stuffed mushrooms and puffed pastries. Whatever you decide try to keep it consistent and you will have a much smoother time planning.

If you are looking to create a custom invitation to match your theme Bumpercards offers a design service and would be happy to work with you create exactly what you are looking for. Please see the link to some of our original samples.