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Wedding Invitations Recipient Psychology

 
Wedding Invitations and Recipient Psychology

What will your guests think the moment they open your envelope and get a first glimpse of the wedding invitations you’ve decided to send out as a representation of your wedding? That’s an important question, especially when you consider how much the people on the guest list, including friends, family members, co-workers, and more mean to you.

Thinking of Your Guests

Generally, you’re told to choose wedding invitations you love as long as they will work well with your wedding’s theme and tone. Outside of that, you pretty much have full range and can choose from lots of alternatives.

However, your own personal tastes should not be the only part of your consideration process. For example, let’s say you decided to do a humorous wedding invitation and have included some off-color jokes about marriage. Maybe most of your friends, particularly the ones your age, are going to love the jokes and your invitations. But what about your parents and grandparents? Will your boss laugh or be disappointed when he or she receives your invitation?

You have to give serious consideration to the demographics of your guest list and their psychology. After all, what your grandmother expects in a wedding invitation will be much different than what your best friend in college expects. You want to find a way to not offend either of them but still create wedding invitations that are unique and that are representative of you as a couple.

Wedding Invitations and Recipient PsychologyWhile sticking with traditional invitations may be one route to take, it doesn’t have to be the only one. You could also opt for using two different wedding invitation styles. If about 100 of your guests are friends and the other 100 are family and older guests, then choose two different designs and order 100 quantities of each. You’ll end up spending slightly more because you won’t receive as large a bulk order discount, and you will have to pay more at the printer to have a second message created for printing. However, if your budget can accommodate these extra expenses this is a good way to make everyone happy.

Making Hard Choices About Your Wedding Invitations

Sometimes though in weddings you just have to make some tough decisions. If you have your heart set on a particular wedding invitation style but you’re worried that some of your guests may not find it appropriate, then you’ll have to decide what you’ll regret more: upsetting some of your guests or not choosing the wedding invitations you loved. That choice is one no one else can make for you.

In general, you should try to make as many of your guests happy as possible without necessarily jeopardizing your own happiness. For example, if parts of your family speak another language or come from a different culture, then you could make your invitations more inclusive by having the invitation translated into those other languages or you could add design elements to reflect those other cultures.

Small details like these can actually have a tremendous impact on the happiness of your guests. Do your own research and think about your guest list. Remember your guests are an important part of your wedding, too.


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