Your wedding invitation sets the tone for your entire celebration. It’s the first impression your guests will have of your big day, and it should reflect your style, personality, and the theme of your wedding. While traditional paper invites are timeless, increasingly couples are turning to innovative options such as acrylic wedding invitations for a luxurious, modern, and elegant look.
In this post, we’ll explore the process of designing your own wedding card and how printing it onto acrylic can elevate your invitations to a new level of sophistication.
Why Choose Acrylic Wedding Invitations?
A Luxurious Aesthetic
Acrylic invitations exude elegance and modernity. Their sleek, glossy surface mimics the look of glass, adding a chic, contemporary touch. The transparency or opaque options allow for creative design elements, making your wedding invitations stand out.
Durability and Quality
Unlike paper, acrylic invitations are durable and resistant to damage. They won’t bend or tear, ensuring your precious invites remain pristine.
Customisation Flexibility
Acrylic lends itself beautifully to intricate designs, custom engravings, and vibrant colours. You can incorporate your artwork, monograms, floral motifs, or even photos with ease.
Eco-Friendly and Reusable
Acrylic invitations can be kept as keepsakes for years and are generally more environmentally friendly than certain paper options, especially if you choose high-quality acrylic.
Designing Your Wedding Card
Start with Your Wedding Theme and Style
Your invitation design should align with the overall style of your wedding—be it classic, contemporary, vintage, bohemian, or themed (e.g., seaside, garden). Your colours, fonts, and design motifs should reflect this.
Personalisation is Key
Include your names, wedding date, venue, RSVP details, and any special instructions. You can also add custom monograms, illustrations, or couples’ photos to make your invitation unique.
Consider the Text Layout
Opt for elegant fonts that match your theme. Keep the text clear and balanced, ensuring all essential details are easy to read.
Working with a Designer or DIY
If you’re designing yourself, software like Adobe Illustrator or Canva can be helpful. For a more professional touch, collaborate with a graphic designer experienced in wedding stationery, especially for complex laser-engraving or intricate multilayer acrylic designs.
Printing Your Design onto Acrylic
The Process: Engraving and Digital Printing
● Laser Engraving: The most popular method, resulting in detailed, permanent engravings for text, monograms, or intricate designs.
● UV Printing: Allows for vibrant, full-colour images and backgrounds directly onto the acrylic surface.
● Sublimation printing: Allows for full-colour images to be printed and stamped directly onto a clear or frosted surface, with a heat press.
● Cricut engraving: A little slower than laser engraving, but no less beautiful, and with a smaller carbon footprint than using a laser printing service. We can also use this to etch your design instead of engraving, for added texture on your acrylic card.
Choosing the Right Style
● Clear Acrylic: Transparent invites that resemble glass—perfect for a sophisticated, modern look.
● Opaque or Frosted Acrylic: Offers a more subtle, muted background, allowing coloured text or images to pop.
Size and Shape Options
Acrylic invitations come in various shapes—including rectangles, squares, circles, and custom shapes. Sizes can also vary, enabling you to create a truly bespoke look.
Adding Finishing Touches
Enhance your invitations with metal or acrylic embellishments, ribbons, or enclosures. Many couples choose to mount acrylic cards on cardstock backing for extra elegance or include RSVP cards and directions in matching acrylic.
How to Get Started
Step 1: Concept and Design
Work with a designer or create a digital mockup of your invitation, ensuring it captures the essence of your wedding. Remember, you can use free services like Canva, to design your invitation - just share your Canva file with us once you’re ready, and we’ll adapt it to the size of the acrylic sheet we’ll be using.
Step 2: Choose the Acrylic Style
Decide on clear, frosted, or coloured acrylic, and the shape and size of your invite.
Step 3: Production
Partner with a reputable printer experienced in acrylic stationery. Provide your design files or collaborate on the design process.
Alternatively, we also do much of our sublimation and cricut printing on-site, leading to a faster delivery time for you.
Step 4: Delivery and Assembly
Once printed and finished, your acrylic invitations will be shipped to you, ready to be addressed and sent out.
Final Tips for a Luxurious Wedding Invitation
Prioritise Quality
Invest in high-quality acrylic and professional printing to achieve a luxe finish.
Keep It Cohesive
Match your invites with your wedding theme, décor, and other stationery.
Plan Early
Custom acrylic invitations take time to design and produce—order well in advance to meet your mailing deadlines.
Include Clear Instructions
If your invites include special elements like laser-cut details or inserts, provide clear instructions to your printer.
Make a Lasting Impression
Your wedding invitation is more than just a request for attendance—it's an introduction to your big day. Choosing to print your design onto acrylic invites adds an element of elegance and exclusivity that your guests will remember.
Ready to make your wedding invitations truly stand out? Contact us today to discuss your custom acrylic design, and let us.