Big Details for a Small Guest List: Custom Stationery Can Elevate Your Microwedding
If you’re planning a microwedding (< 50 people), you’re probably looking for fewer decisions, less stress, and creating a day purely how you want it. However, it’s easy to fall into the trap of planning like you’re hosting a big wedding, with the only difference being that you’re inviting fewer people. So how do you plan a microwedding that prioritizes highlighting who you and your partner are, rather than following the rules of a more traditional wedding? Custom artwork for your invitations, place settings, and menus can help tell your story!
1) Custom wedding stationery tells your story in a way that templates can’t
Did you and your partner meet while rock climbing in Joshua Tree? Or maybe you met playing Dungeons and Dragons? Your love story is unique to you, and custom artwork can help capture that and share your story with your guests. The invitations, table settings, or wedding signage can incorporate the most important or memorable moments from your life together, whether it’s the first matching carabiners you bought each other or your favorite set of game dice (rolled to a nat 20, of course).
2) Custom wedding stationery is a multipurpose keepsake
At my own wedding in Italy, we placed a handwritten thank-you card at each guest's seat. The design featured our dog alongside illustrated landmarks of Florence - a detail we knew we'd never find on a template because it didn't exist anywhere except in our own story. Those cards became keepsakes for our guests: a small, personal artifact that conveyed our gratitude for their presence while also letting them in on a little more of who we are as a couple. That's the kind of moment custom artwork makes possible. A template can say "thank you for coming." Only something made specifically for you can say "thank you for coming, and here's a piece of us to take home."
Your custom wedding stationery suite can include invitations, menus, place settings, napkins, and more!
3) Custom stationery allows for creative intentionality
If you’re choosing a microwedding, you’re probably not following all of the “traditional” wedding rules. Do you want your menu to include the recipe for your favorite potluck dish that you’re actually bringing to share at your own wedding? Do you want the place setting to double as a bookmark that people can take home and use? Custom artwork allows you to design and make choices that suit your vision and story.
4) Custom stationery actually reduces the choices you have to make
Have you already spent hours looking at dozens of wedding templates in search of one that fits you and your partner’s vibes? By choosing custom stationery, you can tell the artist (me!) what images, colors, and concepts are most important to you - and I will make those visions come alive! While you might be hard-pressed to find a template that includes crocodiles and lemons (the guests have to hear that story), an artist can make custom wedding stationery to fit your wildest dreams.
Alligators can bring an unexpected elegance and frivolity to your wedding stationery
When planning a microwedding, every detail is an opportunity to share more about your unique story with those that you love most. Choosing custom stationery allows you to share art made specifically for your wedding. It helps to curate the feelings you want for your celebration - whether it’s romantic or whimsical, an artist will make your story come to life.
What do you want to include on your wedding stationery? Feel free to reach out to me to chat more about what you can expect from your own, unique wedding stationery!
