Creative Quest

come the time for your wedding bells and one of the innumerble to-dos and have-to-dos is selecting your wedding invitation.

enter into Khadilkar street - Mumbai. the wholesle market for wedding cards

from start to end( with more than 150 shops along the two sides of the lane) all you get are wedding invites - and what variety - paper, handmade paper, textured paper, printed paper, cloth .. and this is just the material.

take any of these and you get another long list of options of printing, embossing, embroidery, stone work, kundan work,lace, motifs, ply-cutouts, plastic embellishments, etc.etc.. along with the more than normal range of colours and shapes and sizes.

the price ranges are also from the lowest to highest and by that i mean - you will get cards starting from INR.7 to INR 700 onwards.

the ones at the higher end would be intricately carved invites in wood or those with silver coating each with an idividual box with a basket of dryfruits or chocolates and such - ofcourse the chocolates cost separate…

having gone through the entire pain staking process just recently for myself( and for freinds on numerous other occassions) certain tips that should help you out:

1.it one thing to get something that you like but being a part of the Indian weddign scenario- you need something that everyone else likes as well -take someone along whom you trust and who knows what you like and can advise you

2. decide in advance the maximum amount you’d want to spend on invites ( dont forget to include courier and postage charges in the total)

3. if possible decide on your basic content and details to be printed and take it with you. it will save you a trip down the lane again.

4. keep a margin of about two weeks atleast for the final delivery inspite of all the assurances that the vendor might give you.

5. there a nice (and cheap) gold and silver stickers available in the market so lets give that camel glue break

6. you can cut down the number of cards to be sent by sending out e-invites to freinds and people who you know regularly check - this can be a specially designed e- card, a scanned version of the actual one, free e- invites availalbe on card sites or even a well worded rich text email - thats up to you.

here is wedding invitation that we had emailed to friends and family. lemme know what you think