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Customizable Invitations for Your Autumn Wedding

July 25, 2018 By: Nanette

This post is a sponsored post.

Summer is almost over and the cool days of autumn will soon be here. Whether you’ve got a wedding, baby shower or other special events on the calendar for fall, you need autumn invitations!

Personally, creating the perfect invitation is the most fun for me. But when you find the right image but can’t find the font or colors you want, it can become very frustrating. Cookie cutter templates just don’t work especially for special events like weddings or baby showers.

This is your special day and you shouldn’t settle for anything less. You have this image in mind of exactly what you want for your invitations especially if it’s an autumn wedding with your special color scheme. That’s where customization comes in.

Customize it to make your dream come true

Finding an invitation company that can provide nearly complete customization can be difficult but it is possible.

Basic Invite is one such site and believe me, “basic” it is not. With nearly 1,000 wedding invitation templates to choose from and the ability to change nearly every color of every line of text, background, accents, font, font size, line height, alignment, case and so much more on the invitation, the possibilities are endless. Want to use a photo on your invitation? You can do that too. So many options!

Almost Unlimited Color Options & Instant Previews

Basic Invite gives you almost unlimited color options with instant previews online. Once you choose your perfect design you can change the color of each element with over 180 different color options. As soon as you make your change you can see it with the instant preview. Once you select a color, it provides you with a color range to help you find complimentary colors. Plus you have 4 options for the shape of the card as well – square, rounded corners, bracket or ticket.

And it’s not just the invitation you can customize, you can do so with the envelopes as well so you get exactly what you want right down to the tiniest of details. You can add a colored or foil liner or a pocket. There are over 40 different colors of envelopes so your invitation will make stand out even before it’s opened. You get a truly custom invitation.

How can I be sure it’s exactly what I want?

A custom sample! Basic Invite is one of the few websites that allow you to order a printed sample of your actual customized invitation so you can see exactly how it will print as well as the paper quality before you place your final order so you know without a doubt you are getting exactly what you want.

The Whole Package

Each wedding invitations is part of a set which includes everything from save the dates to wedding invitations and enclosure cards, wedding menus, wedding programs and even matching thank you cards!

The Added Bonuses

As if everything isn’t already amazing, how about a free address collection service, yes, you can use the free address collection service to request your addresses in just three simple steps – 1. share a link, 2. collect addresses, and 3. get free envelope printing.

If you enjoyed learning about the customizable wedding invitations, you’re going to love what I’m going to share with you now!

Free Wedding Websites!

Yes, you read that right. Basic Invite’s wedding websites are completely customizable just like your wedding invitations! The wedding websites are mobile friendly and extremely easy to use. You can instantly upload all of your wedding details along with images and a map with directions which is super convenient for your guests. Choose from 180 custom colors and even choose a design to match your wedding invitation suite!

I just have to add this because it is so unique and pretty especially for autumn, this wedding invitation is made of wood. Yes, wood.

Wedding Invitations and a whole lot more

We’ve been chatting a lot about wedding invitations and all the wonderful options but before I go, I want you to know that Basic Invite is more than wedding invitations. You can shop for business cards, birth announcements, Bar & Bat Mitzvahs and even recipe cards.

2018 Photography Challenge Week 27: Details

July 4, 2018 By: Nanette

Oh, how I love the little details in everything especially when I’m taking photographs. I don’t have a macro lens which would be perfect for getting in really close but getting the details doesn’t always mean macro.

I remember a couple of wedding I did years ago and one of the things I loved most were taking photographs of the little details. Photographs of the specially printed napkins, the bouquet, the couple’s champagne flutes or the wedding rings on the pillow. All those little details are photographs the couple will love years later when they look back at their wedding. I know I do.

I walked into my daughter’s room to snap a photo of her bunny. I love the little details on the bunny’s scarf.

Then as I looked up out the window I noticed the dandelion in the yard. She’s always loved blowing the dandelions away in the wind. It’s the little details in life that create memories. So I grabbed my camera and headed outside for this shot.

When Anxiety Becomes Too Much

May 16, 2018 By: Nanette

I rarely if ever post anything sad or negative feeling on this blog but you know what, life isn’t perfect. We all have our struggles, anxiety, our own private battles. This past week has been a struggle and not just for me but for so many people I love – teens, millennials, x-geners. All of them at every age struggling. Some with outward struggles others struggling within. I don’t want to ignore them. I don’t want to pretend they don’t exist because they do and they hurt. They need to know you are there for them, I am there for them. If they need a shoulder to cry on an ear to hear on the other end of the phone be there, I will be.

When anxiety becomes so bad that leaving the house, even with family, starts the panic attack.

When it takes all your strength to not hurt yourself within the confines of your own home,

your four walls that should make you feel safe…and still, they never do.

When you find yourself with tears streaming down your face sitting in the middle of a restaurant…

you aren’t alone.

I am right here.

I am no one,

but I am just like you.

And if you aren’t like me,

like the rest of us,

then you don’t, you won’t understand.

On the off chance that you are,

you aren’t alone,

please try hard to not fall.

That ledge is not safe

and though the pain often draws us to the edge,

to hang our toes over the ledge,

where our family cries and says don’t go

and we stand and rock to and fro.

We can pull back from the pain

but its just not time, not now.

Loved ones,

know that we do fight as long as we can,

but it’s our fight

and should we struggle to succeed

please know we love you so.

-Anonymous

If you have never struggled with anxiety, you will never truly know the pain that comes with it. It’s not something you can see when you look into another’s eyes for they, dare I say we have become much too good at hiding it and the pain we struggle with alone in the darkness of it all.