This article is a gold mine for people that are not married yet, but they will do the huge step in the following months.

I suggest you plan the wedding by yourself, with the help of your future wife and parents.

It is not complicated and the process is super enjoyable, creating nice memories.

You will closely work with your future wife, parents, and other friends.

The first thing to do

After you ask your future wife the “big question” and she says yes, you should both start the planning phase.

Why?

A wedding is a huge expense and you need to know how much money you need to make it. People tend to believe that a wedding will bring you lots of money but in reality, if you make the correct calculations, a wedding will spend you more money that you are getting.

This is what usually happens but can and will differ from person to person.

That is why I will tell you how I did it and it worked perfectly. For me and many friends of mine which did it exactly like me.

I created an Excel file, with 2 columns in which I noted the following:

Expenses

It is super important to note pretty much all the costs that you will have.

This column should be completed only after you make the research and find out the real costs.

Don’t think that your wedding rings will cost $1,000 if you will end paying $2,000. Decide with your wife all the costs and stick with them.

Or you can pay less for something, and pay more for something else.

But in the end, you should stick with the costs.

Otherwise, your expenses may go up in the sky and you could have financial problems after the wedding ends.

That is why you should stick with the costs.

Here are examples of costs that you will probably have too:

– Wedding dress + accessories

– Groom suit + accessories

– Wedding invitations

– Church expenses

– Wedding rings

– 1 Night at the hotel for my wife so I can pick it from there in the wedding day

– 1 Night at another hotel for both of us, after the wedding

– Old car rent for 1 full day

– Photographer

– Videographer

– Restaurant + decorations (including on each table)

– Huge tv that will run photos or videos with you and your wife

– Red carpet

– Cake

– Fireworks

– Honeymoon (yes, you should include this cost too; it is part of your wedding)

– Trash the dress

Income

Here you will write all the money that you receive.

If your parents or hers give you money, note them here.

Same with all your guests, for sure you can estimate how much money they will give you.

It is important to estimate all the money that you will get, no matter the moment you are getting them (after the wedding, during the wedding, or even before).

Before completing this column, make a list of all your potential guests.

How many guests you will have? 200? 300? Or maybe you make a small wedding with just 100 guests.

Estimate this number and cut 10-15% out.

Some will not come to your wedding for different reasons.

Write below the income that you estimate:

– Money from your parents

– Money from your wife’s parents

– Grandparents

– Close friends (they pay more than your work colleagues)

– Friends

– Acquaintances

– Work colleagues

– And so on.

After the excel file is finished

So now you have 2 columns with expenses and income.

Make the difference between the two and see if you are on plus, or on minus.

It is not a problem if you are on the minus, I was too, with almost $17,000, but I knew it before the wedding and I was ok with that.

if I hadn’t done the calculations before the wedding, I would have had a huge problem at the end of the party, when I would have had to pay for the restaurant, the band, the photographer, the videographer, the car, and who knows what else.

The next thing

Now that you know exactly the financials of your wedding, you can easily plan everything and ask for help from your friends and parents.

Go and see as many restaurants, discuss with music bands, find yourself a great photographer and videographer, taste cakes, take a look at groom suits, and everything else.

This part is super enjoyable and easy to do.

But it is as it is, because you did the financial calculations before and you know perfectly how much money you afford or you want to pay for all you need.

Wedding invitations

More and more people are using digital wedding invitations and even if I didn’t (my wedding was 5 years ago), I strongly suggest you use them.

You will save good money (I paid $500 for the wedding invitations), time, and effort.

If you print invitations, you will have to go out with each friend of yours and give him the invitation. This takes time and money.

A digital wedding invitation can be obtained for free most times and with a bit of design skill, and you can easily send it by WhatsApp, SMS, or Email.

TIP: You don’t need a complicated wedding invitation. Your wedding invitation should contain the following: nice picture of you and your future wife, and information about the wedding party date, church location, restaurant location, and confirmation date.

Regarding fonts, use a font that imitates handwriting or a Serif font.

Play with several fonts before deciding.

It is very simple to pick the right font, just do some tests.

Fonts that you can use for your wedding invitations

Here are 3 fonts that you can use for your wedding invitations.

All of them are free to use.

1. Coneria Script

Download Coneria Script Wedding Font

2. Freebooter Script

Download Freebooter Script Wedding Font

3. Carolina Mountains

Download Carolina Mountains Wedding Font

There are many cool fonts out there, take your time to find the right one for you.

Conclusions

Like many things in life, if the planning is right, everything becomes much easier.

I hope you will have the wedding of your life.

Don’t forget to send this article to your friends that are soon getting married.

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First, tell me, are you married or not? I am, and I remember every piece of my wedding, including the organization part.

The organization part is essential for a super wedding. Many apparently small things can make the wedding go bad or terrible. Imagine that you are doing the first dance, as husband, and wife, in front of your friends, and the lights go off because there is no electricity.  This happened many times, and it still is a popular situation. Not all restaurants have generators to back up the electricity in such situations. I personally know a lady that had no electricity for 40 minutes at their wedding, it was a nightmare.

Going back to the organization part of your wedding, you have to make many decisions.

Wedding decisions

• For me, the first part was the budget. I made an Excel file and I started to estimate everything, so I can know exactly how much money me and my wife can spend on this “party”. I estimated the money that we will receive as gifts, and how much our spent will be. It was a super useful exercise, doing it, we understood perfectly how much we can spend on our wedding invitations, on my costumer, her dress, rings, etc.

I still have the Excel file and all the documentation that I made during the organization part of my wedding. The file was shared with over 10 people until now, 4 years after my wedding, and my friends are still requesting it when they prepare their life for the next step – the wedding.

• Wedding invitations – You want digital invitations, or in print? What font will you use (find below awesome fonts for wedding invitations)? Which colors are the best? What size and shape? Will you put the invitation in an envelope or not? And so on…. You will find out that there are tons of things related to wedding invitations.

• The wedding rings.

• Your costume and her dress.

• The location.

• The music band.

• The flower arrangements.

• Location arrangements – candles, red carpet, candy bar, fruit bar, pool, tables, the entrance, the toilets, the lights, the scene for the music band, and the list can continue with many other aspects.

• Who will you invite to your wedding?

• Which car you will use.

• How you will transport your friends and family to your wedding.

• The hotel where you will book rooms for some of your guests.

• Many others for sure.

Below I will help you with fonts that you can use right away to create your wedding invitation, digital or in print. My opinion is to use printed invitations, old-fashion is better here.

10 wedding fonts that you can use to create a super invitation

Coneria Script – Free for personal projects – Download

Stylish Caligraphy – $8 – Download

Alex Brush – Free for personal use – Download

Bickham Script Pro – From $35 – Download

Riesling – Free for personal use – Download

Dearly Rose Regular – $17 – Download

Freebooter Script – Free for personal use – Download

Playfair Display (free for personal projects – download) + Montserrat Light (free for personal projects – download)

Burgues Script – $99 – Download

Windsong – $24.95 – Download

AdelioDarmanto – Free for personal use – Download

I picked 10 wedding fonts that are looking great, I hope that you will like them as much as me.

Some of the fonts are free, while others have a pretty small cost. Even $100 is not so much, especially if you are doing your own digital invitation and the only cost you have is with the font.

Below is a bonus for you.

What if you like a font that it is on a printed or digital wedding invitation?

There is a simple “trick” that you can use to easily identify fonts from print or digital, for free.

Its name is WhatFontIs, and it is the best font finder. You make a photo of the printed wedding invitation, you upload it on their website, you crop it (if needed), you write down the letters identified by the powerful AI software (if you are registered, it is made automatically), and right after you will find out everything you need to know and even more:

• The name of the font.
• If it is free or paid, and how much it costs.
• Where to get it from.
• You will also get over 60 free and paid font alternatives. If the font identified is expensive, you can use a free one that is very similar, but not identical. The software will help you many options.

There are several things that makes WhatFontIs unique:

• The huge database of over 600k indexed fonts.
• It is the only system that can identify both free and paid fonts.
• It works with all font foundries, including Google Fonts.
• The system is very accurate, on both web and print. For the web, you will use the Chrome Extension (get it here).
• It is easy to use WhatFontIs and it is absolutely free.

Having this solution, you can easily identify the fonts from all the wedding invitations that you received (and still have  ). Use a font from this article or identify the font you like from an invitation card.

Conclusions

Usually, a wedding is made only once in a lifetime. I strongly suggest you to make your wedding exactly as you and your fiancé dreamed for. Both of you will watch the videos and pictures from your wedding, and you will always be filled with emotions.

Use the best font you can, get a super costume and a superb dress, buy expensive rings, and go in the best honeymoon that you dreamed your whole life. It is worth it, this is life all about.

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A new royal wedding is just around the corner. Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom just announced she got engaged to real estate mogul Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi. Well, even if your significant other doesn’t propose on the sunny coasts of Positano, with a 2.5 carat diamond, you can still plan your nuptials like a royal. First step: finding the perfect fonts for the wedding invitations. 

Planning the day of your dreams is a daunting task, even without taking into account all of your partner’s side of the family. Try to make it easier on yourself by setting the right tone from the very beginning: the wedding invitations. It’s the first written statement you’re sending out there about your relationship and your big day. It has to look perfect. 

Wedding invitation fonts: how to get the royal look

In the case of Princess Beatrice, things tend to be sorted out when you have all that Buckingham Palace stationary lying around. You just grab the first crown-and-lions inscripted piece of paper and it already looks noble. The fact that Princess Beatrices’ engagement photos are from one of the most beautiful spots in Italy, Positano, also helps to that effect. Not to mention her unique, designer engagement ring, with a diamond that cost about 120,000 dollars. 

Well, setting aside these small details, we guarantee that your big day can be just as posh if you pick out the best font for the wedding invitations. Keep in mind, this is one of the first things you have to do in your planning, so it might be a good idea to prioritize it and leave the decisions about flowers and whether or not to have your third cousin in the bridal party for later. 

Finding the right font for wedding invitations may seem simple. A lot of people count on the quality of the paper or small decorations in the design to be the eye-grabbers. But there is no amount of white doves, intertwining heart-shaped vines and golden rings that can distract your guests from an unfortunate wedding invitation font. Just imagine if you got a fancy invite to someone’s wedding and recognised the font from the Domino’s menu. 

Wedding invitation fonts: the good, the bad and the ugly

As a general rule, don’t go for the default options from the store. Chances are their bestsellers are used by every other couple. Do you think Princess Beatrice would ever use a font for her wedding invitations if she even suspected it’s the same font used by Kate or Meghan? Exactly. So, do your homework independently. Also, keep in mind that you can tweak the font you chose for you wedding invitations. We’re not saying to design your own (actually advise against that, to be honest), but if you happen to fall in love with a wedding font that is still just a little to thin or too short, you slightly alter it until it’s perfect. Letter heights can be stretched to a certain degree and also the font’s weight (the one that determines how thin or bold letters are) can be modified. 

Another key advice when you’re choosing the best fonts for wedding invitations is to keep an open mind. A wedding invitation can be different from any other card you’ve ever seen, just like your wedding will be unique. 

Also, it’s nice to coordinate the wedding font with the event’s theme, just don’t over do it. You might be doing a Jane Austen themed wedding, but that doesn’t mean you have to serve food cooked like in the XIXth century food. Much the same, most of your guest won’t be able to read your invites if they’re written the way they were written back then, with a quill, ink stains and letters we couldn’t make out. 

Finally, remember that most wedding invitation fonts are used in italic form and the majority of them have round, soft letters, so they look as close as they can to cursive writing. As beautiful is this style is, it becomes hard to follow it of your text is too long. A lot of couples want to share their entire love story, as well as a few jokes,

So, when choosing the font for your wedding invitations, you might save yourself a lot of time if you decide first what’s more important to you: a long, funny or emotional text that tries to tell all the good news or a beautiful, but somewhat frugal invitation, with just the essential information. 

Having taken all of that into consideration, we here at WhatFontIs.com put together a list with our favorite fonts for wedding invitations. Tell us which one’s your favorite or, even better, send us your own suggestions!

Windsong is a beautiful, somewhat intricate font that just begs to share the good news about a wedding. It has the advantage of looking posh but in that relaxed I-am-faboulous-without-even-trying way.

Alex Brush is also a go-to when it comes to wedding invitation fonts. Again, what we love is the cursive, fancy letters that still manage to look just the right amount of messy. 

Carolyna has the many of these qualities as well. It’s dainty enough for a wedding invitation, but unstuffy enough to remind us it’s 2019. 

Burgues Script, on the other hand, has nothing relaxed about it. It’s a fabulous, over the top wedding font. True, maybe it’s not the first option for Princess Beatrice. But it would certainly be in Victoria Beckham’s top preferences. 

Shit Happens. Ok, you might as well hear it from us. No matter how much planning and effort you’re putting into your big day, shit is bound to happen. When it does hit the fan on your wedding day and all you can think is that it’s your party and you can cry if you want to, we just pray that you’ll remember the gospel of Charlotte York. Remember her first, picture perfect wedding to her picture perfect husband and the hell it turned out to be? Now think about her second, trainwreck wedding with her bald, loudmouth second husband that turned out to be her happily ever after. So Shit Happens is on our wedding fonts list. It’s pretty and we sincerely hope it’s the only shit you’ll have to deal with about your wedding day. 

Candlescript is also a beautiful options for those who are not trying to break away from tradition. It has the perfect balance between handwritten and legibility, perfect for wedding invitations.

Coneria Script offers a similar balance between bold, beautiful capital letters and soft, barely-there strokes that will look great on your wedding invitations.

Riesling, on the other hand, is your way to go if you wedding is more pure elegance and less fairytale princess. It’s beautiful in a more airy, clean way. Again, probably not Princess Beatrice’s choice, but definitely Anna Wintour’s. 

Cicle takes it one step further. If a no-fuss no-nonsense wedding is your thing, then look no further. It’s minimalist, modern, fresh and broad – wide circles, clean lines. Would pair great with a wedding invitation that asks guests to donate to their favourite charity in lieu of presents. 

Gatlik Saphir finishes off our top because, well, we started out talking about Princess Beatrices’ wedding and yes, this font would look beautiful on her invitations. The gentle lines look gorgeous on wide lettering, making it perfect for both elegant, exclusive events and romantic, happy family celebrations.

Passionate about fonts or just looking for a quick solution for your lettering woes? WhatFontIs.com provides a catalogue of over 550.000 fonts that you can browse until you find the one that fits you just right. 

Also, make sure you check the Blog Section – you might get that cool idea that will help you better define you visual identity. 

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