Wedding cards

We collected our wedding cards from the hotel about a couple of weeks ago for printing and finally on last Saturday we went to check out the printing company that the hotel has recommended to us. (there are 2 of them in fact) We decided to go with the one called T.Dragons at Excelsior Shopping Mall.

We were into a surprise when we found the shop just at the tiny corner of the mall, conveniently right next to a slimming center and opposite a nail parlour to be packed with eager parents and couples alike. Everyone seems to be busy with their own selection, while some parents give their pieces of advise on how the wedding invitation should be. As I was still nursing my seriously sore throat.... my excitement over the generous amount of selections and choice has numbed it. To go for a simple design or be extravagant with the wordings.. to use gold stamping or normal digital printing.. to add fancy icons or just plain text.. decisions, decisions, decisions!

Everything looks sooo pretty there. Even the simplest of the invitation cards look sooo elegant in plain white. Though in Chinese tradition, red has always been the colour of festivities, but nowadays, white has taken over the norm. Even the traditional invitation card with an envelope has evolved into something so unique by itself that, its no longer just a card. Its a piece of art specially created by the couple to their honouree guest. However, how many of you actually keep the invitation card for real?? Like keep them in a safe box, or put them into a collection or something?? Alot of times, small little things like these do not make it to our list of important "keepsake" unless for the couple themselves. Even for some couples I know don't keep their own wedding invitation cards. So why spend that amount of money into printing such fancy cards only to find that people don't appreciate it? I don't know... do you?

Printing doesn't comes cheap these days, though its still within the few hundred dollars. The final total IS what we are looking at!! hahaha.. not a small sum at all. Hence we try to look at the big picture and go with what we want and yet within our tight budget.

Anyway, wedding isn't just about all these right.. the very important thing is the presence of our love ones to witness the ceremony. Everything else just compliments the entire event :)