Wedding invitations

[xPH03N1Xx]

I'm just after a little bit of help, especially from some US brides!

I design wedding invitations, previously just locally and for people that I know, but I've just made the move onto etsy and I need a little but of help regarding paper sizing!

I've always worked with our international paper sizes that we use in Australia and I believe UK too but I've had a lot of customers enquiring from US and I'm just nit sure what sizes I should be producing for those of you that use US paper sizes.

So my question is... What sizes do you ladies like your invitations!?

I would also like a little bit of inspiration to expand my collection... Are there some common themes or colours being used in the US currently?

 

[MellyH]

I'm in the US and we were doing our own so I designed them to fit two to a US Letter sized piece of paper and then guillotined them myself at Kinko's. Then I found the right sized enveloped... A5 or A7 or something I believe?

 

[newlywed2013]

Our invites are many sizes. I think mine were 4 inches by 6 inches. As far as colors and themes - woodsy, peacock, and girly. You can get on Pinterest.com and look at the wedding pins to see what people are planning and get inspiration!

 

[xPH03N1Xx]

I'm in the US and we were doing our own so I designed them to fit two to a US Letter sized piece of paper and then guillotined them myself at Kinko's. Then I found the right sized enveloped... A5 or A7 or something I believe?

That's about the sizes that I work on for Aus clients. To fit 2 to a standard A4 page. Our A4 page is in between your letter and legal sizes I believe and it's throwing me off a little!

 

[emyandpotato]

I'd say A6 is probably around the size most people want. That's the size we did our thank you cards and about the size of our invites, though they were a box and we DIYed it.

 

[xPH03N1Xx]

I'd say A6 is probably around the size most people want. That's the size we did our thank you cards and about the size of our invites, though they were a box and we DIYed it.

Are you in UK? The biggest problem I'm having with US customers is that they have no idea what I'm talking about when i say A5 or A6. So I've had to double all of my samples into sizes 2x3 4x6 and 5x7 just so they know what sizes they're purchasing!

I usually work with A5 invitations, and then A6 for RSVP cards etc. Or DL sized invites. Which throws them another curveball as DL is 1/3 of an A4, but an A4 is between legal and letter US paper sizes. And it's just a nightmare! Lol