Is Wedding Postage Just for Mailing Wedding Invitations?

The most obvious reason to purchase special wedding postage is for mailing your wedding invitations.  It’s the perfect way to add that final touch in making your invites uniquely personal.  Everything about your wedding invitation planning has, up to this point, been about the items that go inside your mailing envelope, but don’t forget you can accessorize the outside as well.

Wedding invitations are actually just one of many wedding-related stationery items you can mail with personalized postage stamps.  In fact, they aren’t even necessarily the first item you can mail to guests using custom wedding stamps.

Listed here, in the order they occur on a planning timeline, are some other items you can consider mailing with wedding postage:

• Engagement Announcements – If you are planning to share the news of your recent engagement to family and friends by mailing out announcements, this could be the perfect opportunity to share a photo stamp that features your engagement photo.
• Save the Date – This is a great way to spread the news of your upcoming wedding date so guests will have advanced notice even before receiving your wedding invitation.  Postage personalized with your names and wedding date would be quite fitting.  
• Bridal Shower Invitations – No matter who plans a bridal shower and sends the invitations, they can choose to purchase pre-designed stamps to match a shower theme.
• Response Card Envelopes– As a courtesy to guests, a stamp is provided on the return mailing envelope so why not a special wedding postage stamp, maybe even the same design as will be used on your invitation envelope.
• Rehearsal Invitations – It is recommended that special rehearsal invitations be sent to those guests who are invited to this pre-wedding event so they know when and where they need to be.  Again, custom wedding postage could be used.
• Thank You Cards – Because these are sent post wedding, this would be a great opportunity to create postage using a favorite wedding photo to share with guests.

**TIPS** – Even though personalized wedding postage costs more than regular postage, you can save some money by using the same custom stamps for mailing multiple items.  The more sheets of custom wedding stamps you buy, the better per-sheet price you will pay.  Always take one of your ready-to-mail invitations to be weighed at the Post Office so you know you are purchasing stamps in the correct amount – various rates are available to accommodate different weights and sizes.

Whether choosing pre-designed wedding stamps or making your own custom photo stamps, you will create that special WOW factor for guests even before they open the envelope.  After all, the mailing envelope will be the very first item your guests will see when your invitation or announcement arrives in their mail.  Instead of just revealing your return address, surprise guests by attaching personalized wedding postage.