Wedding Invitation Template

A wedding invitation is the most looked-at piece of paper most people will ever send, and the difference between one that was designed and one that was assembled is visible from across a room: the names set in a serif with room around them, the date written out, the lines in an order that reads like a sentence. This one is typographic and nothing else. No florals, no frame from a catalog, a double hairline rule and the words, in a gilt or a blush or a navy, on the cardstock you choose.

Two 5 by 7 cards print on one landscape sheet, the same card twice. The cards are smaller than their half of the sheet, so five cuts bring them to size: three down and two across, each with a short mark at both ends, in the margins. The frame sits a quarter inch inside the cut on every side, so a cut that wanders a little never touches it. Fifty invitations is twenty-five sheets from a home printer, or one file to the print shop, which will print it on anything you like because it is a proper PDF with the fonts inside it.

The card reads the way an invitation reads. A line above the names, together with their families, or whatever is true. The two names with an ampersand between them. The invitation line. A rule. The date in full, Saturday, March 20, 2027, so nobody reads it wrong. The time in words, the venue, the address, a line about what follows, and the reply date in small caps at the foot.

Every line has a limit and the customizer holds you to it, so a long venue name is flagged before you pay rather than cut off at the edge of the card. Six color themes; the gilt is the default because it is what a wedding invitation is, and the light-ink theme is for the proof you print at home before you commit.

Print at 100%, not fit to page, on cardstock: 80 lb to 100 lb cover, 216 to 270 gsm, is what invitations are printed on, and most home printers take 80 lb through the rear tray. Cut from mark to mark with a metal ruler and a sharp knife, or a paper cutter: the dashed line between the cards first, then the four outside edges. The free version is this design with the sample couple, in the Gilt theme, on Letter, with a small credit line at the foot of the sheet. The paid version carries your names, your date, your place and your words, all six themes, and comes back in Letter and A4 from one purchase, with a link that works for a year. The RSVP card and the menu in this drawer are set to match.