Garden Weddings

Invitations

You can convey a garden theme
right from the start — with your
invitations.
"You could have an embossed
flower on the invitation. In the throat
of the flower, you could have a pearl
or a rhinestone," suggests Deborah
Weisserman of Deborah's Invitations
in Southfield. "We have a wonderful
invitation with an embossed rose on

it.

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Ms. Weisserman also mentions the
new technique of tissue wraps for
invitations. "We take a simple,
traditional invitation and wrap it with
tissue and put a bow on it," she says.
In the contemporary lines now
available, flowered invitations would
be considered rather sweet compared
to others on the market. In
contemporary invitations, the trend
is to bright colors like hot pink and
turquoise, enlivened even more by
sparkles and ribbons. For a black and
white wedding, a couple might pick
black invitations with white writing.
Large cards are favored over the fold-
over type.
Despite the variety of contempor-
ary invitations, most brides still take
the traditional route. The classic look
has white or ecru paper, copperplate
engraving, and the invitation can
either be folded or not. A popular
option is lined envelopes — nothing
flashy, gray or beige moire linings, for
example. Response (RSVP) cards and
stamped envelopes are commonly
inserted in the invitations.
Although regional customs vary, it's
common here to mail the invitations
six weeks in advance of the wedding.
Order your invitations with that time-
frame in mind. Ms. Weisserman
estimates that for a wedding of 100
guests, the average spent on
invitations is $200 to $300. Obviously,
you could spend more than that —
and some people do, up to $700,
$800, or more.

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If you are determined to have the
wedding outdoors, the question is —
where? If you live in a house with a
well equipped kitchen, a spacious flat
lawn surface and pretty landscaping,
the answer might be — at home. Or,