How to Customize Your Own Cherry Blossom Wedding Invitation

Many couples like to adorn their wedding invitations with flowers’ colors. One of the most preferred flower themes is Cherry blossoms that come in colors of pink and white. Cherry blossoms are traditional Japanese flowers that are perfect adornment for your wedding invitations. This flower theme sends a message of love and friendship. Cherry blossoms wedding invitations can be ordered from your local wedding stationary or online. However, if you plan to maintain your budget, you can create your own cherry blossom invitation at home.

To create Cherry blossom wedding invitations at home is easy to do. All you need is a little creativity and some items to create the invitation. To do this project, you need to prepare these things with you: Computer, printer, word processing or graphic design software, scanner (optional), heavy card stock (a4 size), cherry blossom image, ribbon, half yard per invitation, glue (optional), water colors or colored pencils (optional) and matching envelopes.

To accomplish your Cherry blossom wedding invitations project, you will have to follow three mains steps: designing, printing and finishing. Follow the steps in detail below and make your big day colorful.

Designing the Invitations

·      Find an image of a cherry blossom and save it to your computer.

·      Design the layout and text of your invitation using word processing or graphic design software.

·      Go the File menu of the program, select the "Page Setup" and choose your paper size.

·      Import the cherry blossom image to your document.

·      Drag the image into the position you like. You can resize the image from the Edit menu.

·      Type the detail information of your invitation including the date, time, location, RSVP using a font that you like best.

·      Save your document.

Printing the Invitations

·       Put the card stock into your printer's paper tray.

·       Go to the menu and click "Print" command to open the print options box.

·       Choose Best Quality and Color, or Black and White as you like.

·       Choose the paper type and decide the number of printing.

·       Start printing by clicking on OK button.

Finishing the Invitations

·       Use watercolors or colored pencils to decorate the cherry blossoms if you think necessary.

·       Use the ribbon to decorate the invitation. Tie the ribbon in a bow and adhere it to the invitation. Attach the bow at the top, or wrap it around the invitation and tie the bow in the center.

·       Prepare the addressed envelopes, put the invitations in, and your Cherry blossom wedding invitations are ready for delivery.