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Creating California wedding invitations

Your wedding invitations are the first thing you'll have to show off your California style and let your guests know what themes and colors your wedding will include. The varied landscapes that California offers can be reflected in your wedding invitations, from evergreen trees to seashells and much more. Invitations can be fun to design, create, customize, and hand make, so play with some ideas and use this guide to put your finger on exactly what you're looking for.

Beach Wedding Invitations

With so many beautiful backgrounds to choose from in California, it's no wonder you can't decide between a chic beach wedding or a wine country ceremony. Peruse some of your options and you may see a theme or style that emerges as your favorite, the one you must have for your invitations. From Malibu to the Redwood Coast, California beach weddings are one of the state's most popular wedding themes, mainly due to the stunning pictures and gorgeous views provided by the Pacific Ocean. Complement nature with your customized beach wedding invitations, leaving no detail out, not the starfish or the sand dollar. Browse through the many possible images of seashells, conch shells, and beach borders to find the one you enjoy the most.

Invitations with California Appeal

If the beach isn't really your thing, then California has much more to offer you! Imagine grape leaves climbing up your invitations for a wine country wedding or a pastel green fern inlay for a redwood forest ceremony. Sunny California summer weddings in the Bay Area could feature images of golden wheat fields accentuated by an earth-toned horizontal stripes border. A winter night in the Sierra Nevada mountains evokes images of shooting stars in the clear mountain skies above an evening wedding. If you're a California desert lover, consider a cactus prairie scene or a horse stopping for water. A Hollywood wedding may require invitations with a little more "bling" including jeweled wedding embellishments.

Soothing Floral Designs

If you'll be using flowers as the encompassing decorating feature of your wedding, there are hundreds of elegant flower designs to adorn your wedding invitations. Just looking at the sleek, flowing black lines of the Exbury Florals Set of invitation images inspires calligraphy as the invitation's text and simple but elegant lines throughout the heavy-stock page.

Handmade Invitations

You can either use templates provided online or discover the fun of handmade invitations, especially when they're handmade by someone else for a cheap price! To truly get the California look you are seeking, consider having an invitation-making party stocked with all the supplies you and your bridesmaids could need to create similarly-themed but uniquely individual handmade wedding invitations! Buy supplies in bulk online or at your local California fine paper and crafts store.

Whether you use a template, create and customize, or make or buy handmade invitations, remember to save a few examples of what you sent out to your guests so that you can look back on your perfect wedding invitations for a lifetime.

Written by: Lindsay Dove
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