Photo wedding invitations
Your own pictures, set properly, not dropped into a frame.
Most photo invitations are a rectangle with a picture in it. These are not that. Each design here has decided in advance what the photograph is for: a full-bleed cover that fills the screen before a word is read, an oval locket inside a gold ring, an arch that crops the picture the way a doorway would, two vertical frames fading into each other, polaroids scattered as though on a table. The crop and the treatment are part of the design, so an ordinary photograph comes out looking considered.
Two photographs is the limit on every plan, and that is deliberate. A photo invitation is a first impression, not an album. The place for the rest is the QR photo album on the Luxury plan, which collects what your guests shoot on the day. Pick one picture where you are both looking at each other rather than the camera, and one landscape of the place if the place is part of the story.
Every photo design
Each one opens as a live invitation you can scroll through, the same page your guests would see. Every plan includes all 35 designs, so the design you pick does not change the price.
Getting a photo invitation right
Give it a picture with room around you
Full-bleed designs crop differently on a phone held upright than on a laptop. A photograph with some space above your heads and beside your shoulders survives both; a tight head-and-shoulders shot loses somebody's forehead on one of them.
Mind what the type sits on
Names printed over a busy background is the one thing that ruins a photo invitation. These designs darken or lighten the area under the text automatically, but you can help them by choosing a picture with a calm patch (sky, a wall, out-of-focus greenery) where the words will go.
Use the highest-resolution file you have
Send the original from the camera or the phone, not a copy that has been through a messaging app. Photographs lose about half their detail every time they are forwarded, and a full-bleed cover shows that loss immediately on a modern screen.
What every one of these includes
The look is the only thing that changes between designs. Every digital wedding invitation we make carries the same working parts:
- Online RSVP: who is coming, how many with them and their names, allergies, a song request and a note to you
- Schedule of the day: two to four events, each with its own time and venue
- Calendar and maps: Google and Apple Calendar buttons, and directions to every venue
- One link to send by text or WhatsApp: change a detail and every guest sees the new version without anything being resent
Questions about photo invitations
How many photographs can we use?
Up to two per invitation, on every plan. The designs use them differently: some as one full-bleed cover, some as a pair. The QR photo album your guests fill on the day (on the Luxury plan) is separate and has no such limit.
Do we need an engagement shoot?
No. Plenty of couples use a phone photograph from a good afternoon. What matters is light on your faces and space around you, not the camera it was taken with. If you do have a shoot, ask the photographer for one upright frame, since that is the one that works on a phone.
Who can see our photographs?
Only people who have the link to your invitation. The invitation pages are excluded from search engines, so they cannot be found by searching your names, and photographs are deleted along with everything else when the retention period ends.
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