Move over detailing of Flowers, Table Arrangements, Cutlery or Wedding Hampers.
This is gradually finding its term as a norm with Indian weddings in today’s age.
Detailing is now defined as Wow-ing your guests with the Unexpected!

Over a series of Blogs, we shall challenge our creative horizons to explore those Wow factors at a wedding
that gets people talking even long after the wedding celebrations are over. This time,
Vivaah takes you into the magnificent world of Wedding Stationery.

Designer Invitations 

An Invitation will never get out of fashion when it comes to South Asian weddings. Symbolic of respect and admiration,
an invitation card is still sent out or hand delivered to guests wherever possible despite all electronic
versions of invitations available in the digital world. You know your folks want it this way, make the best of it.

Your invitation is more often the first connect to your guest, passing through different family members and
possibly sitting at someone’s coffee table for a few weeks for all to see. Let your invitation’s design and concept speak much about your
personality, style, preferences and a taste of things to come during the celebrations.

Specialized Invitation Designers are happy to meet the Bride & Groom, learn about their love story, they understand their style
preferences and personalities. All of this is reflected in the kind of Invitation Card, Box or Hamper that is designed.

Airport Signage

If you’re hosting your guests at a Destination Wedding, your next touch point with your guests most likely
would be at the Airport at destination. A customized and personalized Airport Welcome Signage held by the
transport team at the Arrivals area of the destination airport is a delight to see for your guests. Most of the times,
its much higher appreciated than the transport ride itself that you’d be providing them from airport to the venue.

Welcome Letter

If that doesn’t wow them then the sweet little Welcome Letter that the chauffer will hand over to them on your
behalf would certainly melt them instantly. Choose the most humble and welcoming verbatim for your
Welcome Letter that can be provided to the transport team to hand over to the guest as soon as they’re seated in the cars.

Customized Water Bottles

When they reach out to refresh themselves with that bottle of water sitting in the cup holder, they would yet
again see a hint of the wedding theme on the bottle label wrapper. Beware, keep it subtle with not a lot of information on this label.
Perhaps just the wedding logo of your initials on it and your social media hashtag would just be ideal.

Luggage Tags

Upon arrival at the hotel, your guests are assisted with their luggage by the Bell Desk team who strap on your
customized wedding themed luggage tags which bears the wedding logo and dates on one side of it and information fields such as
Name and Room No. on the other side. You may provide these tags to the hotel ahead of time to use these for guest luggage instead of their regular tags.

Key Card Sleeves

This concept is not just appreciated for its novelty factor but also for the practicality of it.
The hotel would usually provide your guests with a key card inserted into a foldable sleeve which mentions information
on the hotel or its food and beverage outlets. Instead, have your own key card sleeves designed and printed with the
agenda of the following days of the celebration. It comes in handy for your guests to read through
what is happening where at a particular hour of the day in terms of Flow of Events.

Welcome Notes

A smaller concise version of your Welcome Letter could be a Welcome Note that could be sitting on the coffee
table in the room where your guest would check in or could be attached to the Room Hamper that you may be placing.
This could be a personal message of a few sentences welcoming the guest to the venue and
how you’re looking forward celebrating with them over the next few days.

Do Not Disturb Tags

The fun continues even during the snooze hours in between celebrations. Let people know you’ve had a
great time partying the previous night and hence do not want to be disturbed. Themed DND tags with your logo and
hashtag can be placed in rooms for guests to hang them at their doorknob for a sound stylish sleep.

Directional Signage

Chances are that you may have opted for exotic spots in a venue for your celebration and getting
there could be an exploration trip for your guest. Look at it as another opportunity to wow your guest
with your wedding themed directional signage that could read for example ‘You’re only a few steps away from
Awesomeness’ or something subtle like ‘This way to our Gateway of Happiness ’.

Ritual Booklets

You may have guests of different demographics, cultures and ethnicities on your big day.
And it may become quite confusing for your guest to follow the rituals
if they do not already know about them. It definitely adds a thoughtful
touch to the ceremony when you provide them with small ritual booklets that tells them about each stage of the ceremony. 

Food & Bar Menus

Themed Menu Cards is a good addition to your stationery suite as you can customize these according to
the theme of each evening. You may even explore the idea of naming each dish differently as per
your choice that may tell a story. But be sure, the same name appears at the Food Counters.

Beverage Napkins

If yours is a wedding where guests would spend a good enough time at the bar, it would be great to have
custom printed beverage napkins placed there. Having a chat  or two at the bar,
they constantly see and appreciate the detailing you’ve gone into with your wedding.

Instagram Boards

In today’s day and age, you’d love for your wedding to be spoken of, appreciated and remembered for a long time to come.
Thanks to social media and avid followers, your celebrations can be well documented by friends and family using
the wedding hashtag which you may place throughout the venue for guests to instantly post on the digital world.

Thank You Notes

Finally, to top it all, express your gratitude and appreciation to your guests with a beautifully
designed Thank You note that you can place either on the dinner plates on the last event or even in their rooms
before they check out of the hotel. This could be accompanied by a small wedding favour of your choice.

An important note is to keep the theme and colours consistent through all your stationery as you create a
lasting impression with a recall value. You may even mention your social media hashtag on
each of the stationery so guests can document your cherished moments every step of the way.

Vivaah brings to you many more exciting concepts for your wedding in the next blog.

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