How to Make Wedding Invitation Card Step by Step

Wedding invitations are the first view your guests will have of the style and vibe of your wedding. Make sure your invites are as personal and unique as your wedding will be, why not make one-of-a-kind wedding invitation cards by yourself. Meanwhile it is not a simple task to write the wedding invitation wordings. In this tutorial you'll learn how to design your own wedding invitation cards with ease and fun, including the wedding invitation wordings.

What You Need to Make a Custom Wedding Invitation Card

Your wedding photos

A fun and easy software to make wedding invitation cards

To design a wedding invitation card, please follow these easy steps using Photo Collage Studio - Digital Scrapbooking Software with ready-to-use invitation card templates included.

Easy Steps to Make a Custom Wedding Invitation Card

Step 1: Create Photo Invitation Card from Layout

Step 2: Add Favorite Wedding Photos

Step 3: Input Wordings for Invitation Card

Step 4: Print Photo Invitation Card to Send Out

Advice on Wedding Invitation Wording

Follow these simple steps for writing your wedding invitations:

Who is Hosting of the Wedding?

The first names your guests will see on your wedding invitation are those of the people who are paying for the event. Traditionally, this has been the bride's parents, and so it reads:

Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Beazley ,

or

Kate and Marvin Beazley


If the bride and groom are hosting, then the line reads:
Ms. Jane Doe and Mr. Sam Smith

Or

Together with their families,

Jane Doe and Sam Smith

The Request to Wedding Ceremony

The next line in a wedding invitation is the one that requests that your guests attend.
If your ceremony is at a place of worship, then the line should read:
Request the honor of your presence
at the marriage of their daughter
Note the formal British spelling of the word "honor." The word daughter is used as an example and should be the gender of the person whose parents are hosting. If, on the other hand your ceremony is at home or other secular location, then the line should read:
Request the pleasure of your company
at the marriage of their daughter
or
would be delighted for you to attend
the marriage of their daughter

If the couple is hosting:
invite you to join us at the celebration of our marriage

The Happy Couple

Etiquette says that the bride should be listed first, using first and middle names only. Then the groom should be listed, using both title and middle name. So for example:
Nora Jane
to
Mr. Scott Andrew Jackson

A more modern alternative is simply,

Nora Beazley
to Scott Jackson
Some couples, especially Jewish couples, may choose to use and instead of to.

Date and Time in Invitation Cards

Traditionally, these are spelled out:
Saturday, the tenth of June
two thousand and six
at four o'clock in the afternoon
note that the month and day are capitalized. If it were a 4:30 ceremony, the time would read at half after four o'clock in the afternoon. But you can also write
Saturday, June 10, 2006
at 4 p.m.

The Location

If the ceremony is at a well known location, you needn't include the address
The Museum of Fine Arts
Houston, Texas
but for smaller locations, or your home, you'd want to write out the address.
The Art Club
49 Marquis Road
Blair, Utah

Time for the Reception

Let your guests know there is going to be a party. This can either be included on the wedding invitation or on a separate reply card. On the wedding invitation, it would read
Reception to follow at the Briar Hills Country Club
If you're not serving a full meal, it is nice to let guests know. You might write:
And afterwards for cocktails and cake in the Rose Room.
Or
Dessert and dancing to follow
A separate reception card is often good to use if the ceremony and reception are in different places, or the reception doesn't immediately follow the ceremony. It might read something like
Reception
8 o'clock
Parker Grand Hotel
342 Allen Road
Pike, Oregon

Get Them to RSVP

Traditionally, R.S.V.P. was written on the invitation, and guests knew to reply on their own stationary. Now, most couples find that they get responses more promptly if they include a separate reply card.
This can be mostly blank, allowing guests to write a note, with a line such as:

The favor of a reply is requested before the first of June

Or it can be more detailed, such as
Please reply before the first of June
M___________________________
_________Will attend
_________Will not attend

You might also write:

Number of people in party_____

Optional details

Optional details include telling your guests what to wear. Strictest etiquette tells you not to include information about attire on your invitation, but I think this is an outdated opinion. Guests appreciate clues about how to dress, and are not as instinctively knowledgeable as they used to be. To avoid someone showing up in blue jeans, include a line such as: Black Tie
Other options: Semi-formal, cocktail attire, festive attire, creative black tie, white tie, black tie optional, dressy casual, informal.

How to Embed Flash Slideshow to Windows Live Spaces

Windows Live Spaces is a free social networking platform for you to publish your blogs and share photos with more people. Want to make your Spaces to be different from others, why not embed your Flash slideshow SWF file to Windows Live Spaces.

Step 1: Make Flash Slideshow for Your Spaces

Firstly, please make an impressive flash slideshow which will be diaplayed on your Windows Live Spaces, here we recommend an easy-to-use web photo gallery maker Wondershare Flash Gallery Factory. Comparing to other flash slideshow maker, it provides many built-in free flash slideshow templates, with which you can make very professional flash slideshow without any flash programming knowledge.
See how to make a slideshow or watch flash slideshow samples created by Wondershare Flash Gallery Factory on Win.
Note: If you are a Mac user, click here to learn more about making your flash photo gallery on Mac step by step.

Step 2: Upload Flash Slideshow to Internet and Get SWF URL

Upload the Flash SWF file to any web hosting, and get the URL address of the Flash SWF file. If you don't have a web host, you can upload your flash file to Google Sites or Wondershare Online Album for FREE.

Step 3: Embed Flash Slideshow to Your Spaces Blog

Sign in your Windows Live, and enter to your Windows Live Spaces. Click "Blog" button on the "Control Panel", then choose to add or edit your blog.


Click the "HTML" button, copy the following HTML code to any section of your post where you want the flash slideshow to be displayed.

<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,45,0" width="150" height="150">

<param name="movie" value="http://sites.google.com/site/wondersharefamily/Home/index.swf" />


<param name="quality" value="high" />

<param name="menu" value="false" />


<embed src="http://sites.google.com/site/wondersharefamily/Home/index.swf" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="150" height="150"></embed>


</object>

Please replace the Red URL in the code to your own URL, and set the width and height as you like. After saving, view the post to make sure the flash slideshow on Windows Live Spaces works well. If not, go back your blog to edit the HTML code.

New Feature of Flash Template: Multi-albums

The above slideshow is present in free flash templates

There are 30+ 3D flash photo gallery templates in Flash Gallery Factory Deluxe or Web Gallery for Mac, which help you to make much more professional designed flash photo gallery for presentation on your commercial or personal websites. Learn how to use these Flash Slideshow Templates more.
All those 3D flash gallery templates can help you to organize and show your photos with different categories, just choose your desired album to watch Nature photos, Baby photos or any others.
*Watch the thumbnails of 3D flash gallery templates with multi-albums as below.
Multi-albums features:

Click the Menu Mask of Albums to select your desired Albums. Edit and play multi-albums in the same template!

Easily switch among many albums! Saving you time in making slideshow!

Why Flash Won’t Be Going Anywhere

Click here to see more photo gallery template

Flash is also compatible in all browsers—a HUGE advantage over HTML5. Many companies are concerned about reaching their audience, not using the latest web code upgrade.
An advantage CNET points out is that, “Flash video can use a variety of “codecs” for encoding and decoding video as it’s sent from server to viewer. Viewers don’t need to know anything beyond how to click a video’s “play” button, a contrast to Net video’s incompatibility-fraught early days. But with HTML5, though, there are two prevailing codecs right now: H.264, supported by Apple’s Safari and Google’s Chrome, and Ogg Theora, supported by Firefox, Chrome, and, according to plan, Opera. IE, the dominant browser doesn’t support any at HTML5 video at present.”
Companies that rival Apple are also jumping at the bit to make devices to rival the iPad, iPod Touch and iPhone. Motorola for example, is taking a stab into the tablet industry and creating their own tablet device (with the help of Verizon). Motorola has decided it will “be access to Verizon’s FiOS cable service and support Adobe Flash, a platform of choice for more than 90 percent of web videos,” according to the International Business Times.
With more and more companies wanting to rival Apple in these verticals, it will make Flash more appealing for other companies to embrace. That is the great thing about being on the other side of the debate—other companies will embrace the Flash technology to market against Apple’s products.
It isn’t an issue of who is going to move forward in the debate, but what platform works best for your clients. Right now Flash is more compatible with the many different browsers, but HTML5 will catch up eventually. Flash may also deliver better images and quality video, but HTML5 can do a lot, and doesn’t need expensive software to do so. In the end I think a hybrid of the two will be what web designers will be using. Some clients will be Flash crazy, while others will favor HTML5 in the future.
The point is that Flash, which hasn’t had a real competitor, will eventually have one with HTML5. This just means Adobe is going to have to step up their game to deliver better quality results than HTML5 or it is going to lose clients. People can be on team Adobe or team Apple, but it is going to come down to who can render the best results over multiple platforms at a low cost. End of story. The business model isn’t changing, Adobe is just getting a competitor.
It is far too early for HTML5 to be a viable competitor, but in a few years from now we could be seeing it catch fast. You don’t have to take Steve Job’s rigid stance on the subject, but instead have a more open ended approach. Decide what works best on a case by case situation. Does your client need a fast loading time? Are they implementing too many videos onto the site? Do their visitors use a HTML5 compatible browser? All of these are points you need to consider before using HTML5. In the future browser compatibility will be a non-issue and level the playing ground.

Embed the Flickr Photo Slideshow to your Blog

Recently, I have been studying flickr and deeply in love with it. I upload a lot of my favorite photos and share them with friends on flickr. And I always wondered how to embed a flickr slideshow on my personal blog.

Fortunately, I have found one simple way to do this. I think that there are many other flickr users who want to embed flickr slideshow to website too, so I share the method here. However, I had to introduce a very powerful and easy-to-use flash slideshow maker Wondershare Flash Gallery Factory as well, as it can help you to create more professional and interactive flash slideshow, and supports you to upload it to blogs, social networking sites and other websites instantly.

Now follow my steps and I am sure you will pick up to embed flickr slideshow to websites in just minutes.
Copy and paste the following code to any place of the web page, blog post, etc, so long as it supports HTML coding. Change user_id from 12345678@N00 to your flickr id, which you can find out on this page. Also replace Tag foo with the tags of the photos you wish to display.

<iframe align=center src=http://www.flickr.com/slideShow/index.gne?user_id=12345678@N00&tags= foo frameBorder=0 width=500 scrolling=no height=500></iframe>

If you don't like the iframe structure, you can use the following code as well. The changing places are the same as the above.

<object type="text/html" data="http://www.flickr.com/slideShow/index.gne?user_id=12345678@N00&tags= foo" width="500" height="500"> </object>

You see, it's so easy to share your flickr slideshow, but there is one question: it can't set the transition effects and duration time for each digital photos. If you want your photo slideshow with various of transition effects and different duration time, I recommend you this flash slideshow maker. It can spice up your slideshow with 100+ transition & motion effects, and 120+ free flash slideshow templates, even combine your flickr photos into 3D gallery photo slideshow. Check it, you must be taken by surprise!