Mailing Wedding Invitations: How-to Guide

Wedding invitations and suites can be lovely -- as they should be! They set the tone for your event and beguile your guests to celebrate with you. After falling in love with a design, carefully crafting the wording, and potentially paying a good bit of money for your invites, the last thing you want is for them to get damaged in the mail.

Unfortunately, scuffing and smudging are risky when sending them through the post office. Here are a few steps you can take to help ensure safety when mailing wedding invitations to your guests.

Explore three steps to help you with mailing wedding invitations safely:

1. Use wedding invitation tissue.

Have you ever opened a wedding invitation and discovered that the actual invitation is covered in vellum or tissue paper? That was not merely a decorative element. In reality, these thin, translucent sheets of paper are a barrier between the invitation and the envelope to help keep it from smearing. Although it is ineffective against more powerful forces, such as a post office canceling machine, having an additional protection barrier inside the envelope is always beneficial. The good thing about these extras is that, in addition to being useful, they can give your invitation some flair, especially if you select colored tissue or vellum.

2. Get your wedding invitations hand canceled.

One excellent method to lessen the wear and tear on your invitations is to request that the post office "hand cancel" them. Before sending any correspondence, the post office typically puts the invites through a machine that "cancels" the postage stamp, making it unusable. This device can tear the invitation, smudge ink, and harm fragile or three-dimensional components. If you request that your invitations be hand canceled, the postage stamp is manually removed, and a machine never processes the invites. There is no additional fee for this service. All you have to do is request it.

3. Hand-deliver as many as possible.

Hand-delivering invitations is one of the finest ways to guarantee that your guests will receive them as you planned. In addition to keeping your invites immaculate, you save money on postage and customize your invitations further. Additionally, it eliminates the chance that your invitations may be misplaced in the mail. If the majority of your guests live far away, this can be not easy, but there are still advantages to hand-delivering as many as you can.