AI Invitation Maker

What every invitation has to say

Six pieces of information do the work. A dress code and a website follow if they apply, and anything beyond that is decoration:

Who is hosting

The names at the top. On a formal wedding invitation this is traditionally the parents; on everything else it is simply whoever is asking.

What the occasion is

One line. "The wedding of", "a baby shower for", "an evening to mark forty years" — enough that nobody has to guess the dress code from the typeface.

The date, written out

Saturday the fourteenth of June, not 14/06 — which reads as a different day depending on which country your guest is in.

The start time

The one detail people photograph the card to re-check. It deserves to be legible on its own, not woven into a script line.

The address

Venue name and enough of the address to find it. A postcode saves more arguments than an elegant abbreviation does.

How to respond

A phone number, an email, a website or a deadline. An invitation without an RSVP route quietly becomes your problem later.

The frequent mistake is setting all six in the same elegant script at the same size. Guests then squint at a photograph of your invitation in a group chat trying to work out whether it starts at 4 or 6. Hierarchy is a courtesy.

Standard invitation sizes

Size sets the formality before anyone reads a word. These are the four most printers price around:

5 × 7 in (127 × 178 mm)

The standard, and what an A7 envelope is built for. Weddings, formal parties and anything you want to feel substantial.

4 × 6 in (102 × 152 mm)

Postcard proportions. Cheaper to print and to post, and right for casual events where a heavy card would feel overdone.

A6 — 105 × 148 mm

The European equivalent of 4 × 6, and the size that fits a C6 envelope without a custom order.

5 × 5 in square

Reads as modern and photographs well for a group chat. Check postage before committing — square envelopes often cost more.

Keep text 5 mm inside the trim whichever you choose. If you are printing on textured or uncoated stock, expect fine hairlines and pale tints to soften — worth ordering a single proof before a run of a hundred.

Building a matching suite

A wedding usually needs three pieces: the invitation, an RSVP card, and a details or directions insert. Later come menus, place cards and thank-you notes. What makes them feel expensive is that they clearly come from the same family.

Generate the invitation, then ask for each additional piece in the same treatment. Holding the palette, type and motif across the set is what a stationer charges for, and it costs a sentence here.