Shopping for wedding invitations both online and offline can be a hard task. There are so many stores and websites offering hundreds if not thousands different style wedding invitations. To help you feel more confident when the time has come to choose your wedding invitations we have listed below the most common styles.

• Self – Mailer – it is a tendency that emerged in the last few years. These wedding invitations make the typical envelope obsolete. Instead they come with envelopment. The envelopment surrounds the wedding invitations and can be made into an envelope
• Pocket – The name says it all. It is a type of wedding invitation that includes a pocket for inserts such as direction card or reception card. You can also find pocket wedding invitations that become self mailers.
• Layered- classy wedding invitations that consist of two layers of paper tied with a ribbon
• Recycled – this type of wedding invitations is for those of you who are eco conscious. As of now the choice is not as wide as with traditional wedding invitations, but it will soon change. Recycled wedding invitations are those that contain at least 30% post-consumer fibers

• Photo – Adding a picture to your wedding invitations will turn them into a keepsake for your friends and guests
• Seal and Send Wedding Invitations – these wedding invitations are premarked with folding lines. They have a response card attached to them and easily become self – mailers with their fold and seal design
• Wedding Invitation Card – Simple and stylish design. There is no folding involved here so the printing appears on the front of the card
• Embosses – I bet you have seen that type of wedding invitations. It takes advantage of a printing method that presses an image into a paper – the result is a raised design.
• Engraved – again the name says it all. This is maybe the most expensive type of wedding invitations because it is time and labor consuming. First a copperplate is engraved with the wedding invitation wording and than the paper is pressed to the copperplate. The result is wedding invitations with raised design
• Thermopgraphy – Wedding invitations printed with ink. To raise the ink on the invitations special type of powder is sprinkled over it and than is send through a heater

I hope that this article will help you to choose the best wedding invitations. For one when you start searching for invitations you will know what all these fancy terms mean.