When you send out wedding invitations, you are telling your guests how your wedding is going to be. Will it be frilly and old-fashioned? Bright and beautiful? Modern and chic? Your wedding invitations make a statement about your wedding, your personality and even your relationship. So you will want them to be perfect.

Contemporary wedding invitations can be a great addition to your wedding plans. They are modern and chic, but they also come in many different styles and types. When you are planning a contemporary-themed wedding, your invitations can be a perfect match to tie the whole thing together. Contemporary wedding invitations don’t have to be dull or overly simplistic. By simply making a few aesthetic decisions for the invitations, you can create wonderful, beautiful contemporary-themed invitations that fit your style perfectly.

The first thing to choose is simply a color scheme or design for your invitation. If you have a wedding color scheme, then matching your invitations’ colors can be a good way to keep the theme consistent. If you don’t have a color scheme, or if price is an issue, black-and-white designs always are a classy way to achieve a modern feel. Blocks of color are a good design element that feels contemporary and leaves open space for text. For a more fun look, circles, flower prints, and even just background designs can add to your invitations. The key to making them feel contemporary is choosing a very stylized, rather than realistic, designs.

Your font is the next big component of your invitation that should be addressed. A sharp block font will be the best way to keep things looking contemporary. This means that you will simply using the size of your font to set apart important information, such as your names. If you want to use more traditional script font, only use it for your names. Use the block font for the rest. No matter your design, a block font will make your invitation feel more modern and chic.

Traditionally, invitations simply have an engagement photo in the envelope. However, it is becoming much more popular to have the photo (or numerous photos) printed onto the invitation itself. You can find invitations that even offer two or three photos on the cover or around the text. Doing these photos in black and white offers a contemporary edge to your invitations, as well as making use of the engagement photos you spent time and money on.

If you want your invitations to feel contemporary, focus on these things. You will find that when it comes to invitations, you can do almost anything you want. Play around with the design until you find something you like, because your invitations are an important part of announcing your wedding and marriage.