Instructions and Tips for How to Assemble Wedding Invitations

Whether you have homemade wedding invitations or you went online or to a store and ordered from a large company, each of your pieces are going to be in separate piles, and you need to combine them into individual invitations. This process of assembling your wedding invitations is a lot harder than most people think, but these tips can help you to do it quickly and without making any costly mistakes.

Wedding Invitation Assembly Step 1: Find a Clean Work Area
Before even touching your wedding invitations, find a clean area in which to assemble them. You will want a large table, especially if you have many different pieces and multiple people who will be working together to assemble your invitations. Wipe down the table with a damp cloth and wait until it is completely dry. You also want all of the people who will be touching the invitations to wash and dry their hands, because even a little dirt will show up on white invitations, and grease will leave spots on the tissue pieces.

Wedding Invitation Assembly Step 2: Stamp RSVP Envelopes
If you are sending RSVP cards with your wedding invitations, you need to send self-addressed stamped envelopes with them as well so your guests will not have to find your address or pay for postage. If you would like, buy stamps with special wedding designs (the typical post office will have at least two options). Take your time with this step to put your stamps on straight, because little things like that have a large impact on the overall feel of the invitation.

Wedding Invitation Assembly Step 3: Put Everything in Order on the Table
The first items are going to be the ones on the very top, going down to the invitations at the bottom, and the envelope to go around it all. First, you have your invitations, then the tissue sheets, the reception cards, the response envelopes (place these so you see the side with the flap, and the flap is along the top of the envelopes), and then the response cards.

Wedding Invitation Assembly Step 4: Count Into Piles of 25
This step is so incredibly important, and many couples skip it, creating some potentially embarrassing situations. The idea is that you want to make sure that each envelope contains one (and only one) of each piece of your invitation. To ensure this, count each of your items into piles of 25 (inner envelopes usually come packaged in 25's already). And double-count them as well. Then if your piles run out at different times, you will know that an envelope has one too many of an item, and you can search through the previous 25 invitations to find it.

Wedding Invitation Assembly Step 5: Stuff the Envelopes
After you have done all of that, the rest is easy. You just move down the table getting one item from each stack and placing each piece evenly on top of the previous. The tissue should cover the wording of your invitation, and if your enclosures are smaller than your invitations, center them with the bottom and two sides, so they are covering just the bottom half of your invitation. The enclosures will go on top of the wording of your invitation, whether it is on the outside or inside, and your response card will go under the flap of your response envelope.

Once you have the whole pile, you will want to pick up your inner envelope in your left hand (with the flap and opening on its right side) and have your invitation set right-side-up in your right hand, and then place the pile of papers into the envelope. You will not want to stuff the inner envelopes into the outer ones until they are addressed, but once they are, you place the inner envelope in the outer so that the front of the inner is visible when the recipient opens the outer envelope.