7/17/11

The Presentation of an Announcement Will Produce the Expectation

By Geoff DeCleff


So you're organizing a major event, be it a birthday party or a wedding, you have set the time, picked the venue, you might even have the guest list - now you have to make the announcement.

Designing the right invitation can often be quite a pain - while many may suggest it's only the invite, it's only the notification of your special occassion - but that will be a person that never had to organise a major do like a 21st birthday or reunion

Capturing the right style and theme for your event reflects on the efforts you put into your invitations. Sending a $2 pre printed invite from the local stationers might be ok for your son's 3rd birthday but for a wedding.

Whether it's a wedding, a birth announcement or even a 21st, the invitations become a souvenir of the event - the invite regularly frames your own photograph album and for many others are kept in theirs.

To lose the art of artistry when it comes to an announcement is disastrous. The gifted calligraphers who hand designed notices is already on the decline.

Back in the Dark ages, when it was rare to leave the vicinity of a local village, the Town crier could stroll the lanes proclaiming in a loud voice the news of the day. Often it was open invitation, quite like the general public events of Facebook!

As the years stole away, by 1447 Gutenberg's Printing Press was invented and over time the middle class could design top of the range invitations thru metal plate engraving (circa 1642) and lithographs by the 1800's.

These technological advancements permitted a much broader use of printing so that the general populace could proclaim their special occassions with a printed invite giving the guest something to keep hold of as a memento of the occassion.

Now, personalising invitations is as simple as creating something at home and printing it. That said , a quality personalized birth announcement or wedding invite is worth the investment, particularly when it can all be done online and is sometimes less expensive than the cost of home printer ink cartridges!




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