For many, sending a wedding invitation marks the start of the ceremony.
Sending a
wedding invitation
to all the guests makes things more official.
As for the announcement of the birth of a child, the choice of announcement is therefore important.
It must reflect, above all, the theme of the wedding (romantic, chic, bohemian, country, carnival, etc.), but also the personality of the bride and groom.
From the most sober but effective model to the more eccentric or more modern models, today there are a multitude of options for announcing your wedding through an announcement.
Shape, color, illustrations, text… there are many elements to consider when choosing a wedding invitation, such as when choosing place cards.
As with Valentine's Day cards, the choice of wedding invitations is such today that it can be difficult to choose one model over another.
To save you hours of research and hesitation, Le Parisien Shopping Guide offers you a selection of the 10 most beautiful wedding invitations.
With this eclectic selection, you have an overview of the best way to officially announce your wedding to your friends, family, work colleagues and all your guests.
Our selection :
JinSu wedding invitation
Our favorite
laser cut wedding invitation
Wooden wedding invitation
Romantic Couple Sakura Pop-Up Wedding Invitation
Scratch card wedding invitation
Red wedding invitation with ribbon and flower design
calendar wedding invitation
3D wedding invitation
Country wedding invitation
Aladine stamp "guest ticket" for wedding invitation
JinSu Wedding Invitation
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€34.08
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With its touches of white lace, this Jinsu wedding invitation brings a touch of elegance and romance to the announcement of a romantic union.
Composed of an invitation card, a printable inner sheet and an envelope, it offers a complete solution to the bride and groom for sending announcements.
Customization, manual or by printing, is ultra-easy.
Elegant and romantic look
Complete announcement
Easy to customize
Very good value for money
Requires some computer skills for customization and printing
Reserved for weddings on traditional themes
laser cut wedding invitation
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€5.99
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€89.98
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With the same touches of lace this time colored (blue), this wedding invitation from the CYSKY brand also plays in the category of elegant and romantic invitation cards.
Offered as a complete kit (invitation holders, blank cards for personalizing the text of the announcement, envelopes and seal stickers), it saves time in preparing announcements.
Complete set
Elegant and romantic look
Colored touch for more originality
Good value for money
Requires some computer skills for customization and printing
Fragile when handling
Wooden wedding invitation
Amazon
€9.99
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€11.90
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Is your wedding themed around nature and the environment?
Announce the color to your guests in advance with this wooden announcement.
In bamboo, this announcement differs from the classic paper announcement for an original effect.
It comes with a red envelope to keep all the surprise of its discovery.
Customization is quite limited, however.
However, it is available in two designs.
Using bamboo as a material
Ideal for nature themed weddings
Delicate to personalize
Heavy
Romantic Couple Sakura Pop-Up Wedding Invitation
Amazon
€8.99
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ManoMano
€24.30
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€84.32
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Offering future wedding guests a pop-up announcement always has a small effect.
To surprise or amaze your loved ones when announcing this event, opt for this 3D pop-up announcement with a couple positioned under a cherry tree.
The only very aesthetic side of this invitation justifies its inclusion in our selection of the most beautiful wedding invitations.
Perfect for minimalism fanatics.
Original
3D effect
Very aesthetic
Delicate to personalize
Brittle
Scratch card wedding invitation
Amazon
€9.99
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eBay
€16.46
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Do you like originality?
How about announcing your wedding to your loved ones by sending them a scratch card?
In any case, this is what this set of 10 scratch cards offers for announcing an event.
You will then have the task of writing the text of your ad before hiding it under a scratching surface.
Surprise effect guaranteed!
Fully customizable!
Original
Surprise effect
A bit different from the classic wedding invitation
Requires writing the ad on each scratch card
Red wedding invitation with ribbon and flower design
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55 €
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Amazon
€67.99
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Red, the color of love par excellence, flowers, hearts and a ribbon.
This invitation template displays all the characteristics required to be included in our top 10 of the most beautiful wedding invitation templates.
Add very good value for money and ease of customization and you have the ingredients for its success.
Elegant with its silk effect, it will be remembered by your guests.
romantic look
Very good value for money
Customizable
Requires some computer skills for customization and printing
Fairly classic look that may not appeal to brides and grooms looking for a more modern wedding invitation
calendar wedding invitation
eBay
€4.87
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Amazon
€5.35
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Do you want to get out of the classic rectangular or square wedding invitation?
What if you opted for this calendar format in a “Save the Date” spirit?
Available in several colors, formats and in a wide choice of quantities, this announcement will have the merit of surprising your guests with its originality.
Sending by post, on the other hand, is more difficult to organise.
Very original format
Available in several colours/formats/quantities
Very good value for money
Delicate shipment
Few customization options
3D wedding invitation
Amazon
€97.89
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Cdiscount
€284.08
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Is your wedding under the theme of fairyland, with a prince and a princess uniting in a castle?
Elegant without being too childish, this wedding invitation with a 3D castle is ideal for simultaneously announcing your wedding and the theme of the ceremony.
Like other announcements in our top 10, it comes as a complete kit.
This invitation will appeal to minimalists!
3D castle decor
Complete set
Delicate to personalize
Lacks a bit of color contrast
Country wedding invitation
Amazon
59,50€
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€74.40
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Marriage is often the fruit of a love harvested, with patience, over the years.
If your theme is country wedding, this invitation will be perfect for your guests.
Its Craft and white paper that forms an opening will be remembered by your guests.
It also has a small knot made with a rope to open and close it.
Laser cut patterns for a perfect finish.
Very original
Ideal for country, nature, etc. themed weddings.
Customizable online
Far removed from traditional announcements
Sending by rather delicate mail
May not contain all the information expected on a wedding invitation
Aladine stamp "guest ticket" for wedding invitation
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€6.90
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eBay
€11.79
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Are you a fan of DIY and want to make your wedding invitations yourself?
This Aladine wedding stamp will allow you to personalize your invitations with a touch of originality.
Ideal for cinema-themed weddings, this "guest ticket" stamp works with many other themes too.
It also benefits from the Aladine quality.
Enough to give your wedding the look of a private and prestigious evening.
Original
Ideal for wedding invitation designs
Very good quality
Sold without accessories
Not customizable
What form of wedding invitation do you prefer?
In 2022, a majority of wedding announcement models still have a fairly classic shape: the rectangle or the square.
Alongside these essentials, other models rely on more original shapes to stand out.
There are thus today wedding invitations in the shape of a disc, in the shape of a triangle, in the shape of a diamond, in the shape of a heart, or even in the shape of a pop-up.
For the most modern, the digital announcement sometimes replaces the classic paper announcement that you receive in your mailbox.
For the choice of the format of the wedding invitation, everything is above all a question of taste and theme of the wedding.
Two beings who unite on the theme of a most classic wedding with white dress, refined decor, respect for traditions, etc.
will be well advised to stay consistent and choose a square or rectangular wedding invitation to announce the news to their loved ones.
For a little more crazy bride and groom, almost all eccentricities are allowed for the wedding announcement with a more original announcement.
What color should you choose for your wedding invitation?
Again, it's all a matter of taste and harmonization with the wedding theme.
A wedding placed under the theme of romanticism can legitimately be announced with a wedding invitation featuring the colors of love such as red.
For a country or bucolic wedding, it may be appropriate to favor colors that are found in nature, such as brown or green.
For a carnival-themed wedding, a very colorful wedding invitation will obviously be necessary.
Conversely, brides and grooms who want to unite in a black and white theme will take the time to choose a black and white wedding invitation.
What illustrations should be favored for an announcement in your image?
Un faire-part de mariage se doit d’être le reflet de votre personnalité. Pour les mariés plutôt timides et discrets qui n’aiment pas s’exposer sur les réseaux sociaux, un faire-part de mariage sans photo personnelle ne surprendra personne. Pour des mariés habitués aux publications Instagram et Facebook, reprendre les codes des photos qui ont du succès sur ces deux réseaux sociaux sera assez cohérent. En d’autres termes, le choix des illustrations pour un faire-part de mariage dépend de votre personnalité et du message que vous souhaitez retranscrire à travers ce petit carton d’invitation. Pour les faire-part de mariage humoristiques, un dessin format BD pour représenter les mariés peut être une piste à explorer. Pour les faire-part de mariage de grands explorateurs, quelques photos prises à l’autre bout du monde pourront illustrer le texte de l’annonce du mariage. Etc.
Comment personnaliser votre faire-part de mariage ?
Destiné à annoncer votre mariage, le faire-part de mariage se doit évidemment d’être personnalisé. Aujourd’hui, plusieurs solutions existent pour personnaliser un faire-part de mariage :
- faire appel à un professionnel capable de concevoir votre faire-part de mariage sur mesure, avec tous les éléments de personnalisation souhaités. C’est la solution la plus simple, mais aussi souvent la plus onéreuse ;
- choisir un faire-part de mariage en ligne personnalisable : il en existe de nombreux modèles avec des options de personnalisation comme un tampon personnalisé au nom des mariés à apposer sur un faire-part de mariage classique. De nombreux fabricants de faire-part commercialisés sur des sites de e-commerce comme Amazon proposent un service de personnalisation du faire-part en quelques clics seulement ;
- l’impression des éléments personnalisés sur un faire-part déjà existant ;
- la conception sur ordinateur de son propre faire-part de mariage comme on peut concevoir des cartes de vœux avec des logiciels adaptés.
Quels sont les éléments à mentionner sur un faire-part de mariage ?
Au-delà du côté esthétique, le faire-part de mariage possède avant tout une fonction pratique : annoncer aux invités les éléments essentiels du mariage. Sur un faire-part de mariage doivent ainsi apparaître :
- les prénoms des futurs mariés (le nom est facultatif) ;
- la date du mariage ;
- le lieu et l’heure de la cérémonie (civile et/ou religieuse) ;
- le lieu et l’heure du cocktail, du repas, de la soirée de mariage ;
- les coordonnées des mariés ;
- la date fixée pour le retour des réponses sur la présence ou non des invités.
D’autres informations, comme l’accès au lieu de la cérémonie, le dress code désiré, les possibilités d’hébergement à proximité, etc. peuvent également être indiqués lors de l’envoi du faire-part de mariage. Pour plus de clarté (il ne s’agit pas de grouper toutes les informations sur le faire-part de mariage), il est conseillé de délivrer ces informations secondaires sur un carton d’invitation annexé au faire-part.
Quand envoyer un faire-part de mariage ?
This is a question that many newlyweds ask themselves in preparation for their future wedding: when should these famous wedding announcements be sent?
In practice, it is advisable to send future guests a wedding invitation neither too early (it is useless and many risk putting the information aside, taking the risk of forgetting it) nor too late (you take the risk that your guests already have things planned such as vacations far from the place of your ceremony and/or do not have enough time to organize their presence).
On average, it is therefore recommended to send wedding invitations within 4 to 6 months before the wedding date.
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