Passport Wedding Invitations

Passport Invitation – This was a multi-step process that involved a lot of cutting, gluing, addressing and more. Here is how the final invites turned out.

First The Chef made a mock up of what they might look like so we knew what information we should include. We used the same ivory and brown paper that we used for the Save the Date Boarding Passes. Once we finalized the text to go inside and The Chef did all of the graphic design, we started printing. And we printed and printed some more. Double sided in fact. After that we glued the inside and back covers to the actual cover paper, and ended up having the word Passport embossed on the front at a local print shop. We also had them cut that outer paper to size.

The passports ended up being:

Cover – Passport embossed and compass stamp that I got a craft store {seen above}

Inside cover – Our photo, ID info similar to what is on a real passport {bottom half of the below image}. This was actually the very first photo we had taken together when we volunteered at an event.

First page – All the details about the ceremony and reception {top half of image above}
Page 2 – Important Information About Hotels which were addresses and numbers of the hotels where we secured rates for our guests
Page 3 – Important Information While Traveling which is where we put directions

Page 4 – Proper Etiquette While Celebrating Our Wedding.  For this fun page we made up cute “advice” for our guests which included the following:

3. Dancing, though not required, is strongly encouraged, particularly after enjoying a few beverages

4. An exception to #3 will be made during the playing of ‘Billy Jean’ – the bride’s favorite song – at which point dancing is required by all 🙂 You should have seen the people on the dance floor at that time of the night!

Page 5 – Visas with Entries and Departures. This was the page where you would typically stamp a passport, so we made it look like that. After we had all the pages assembled, we rounded the corners and stapled the pieces together.

We did a lot of cutting for these. Did I mention that already?

Reply Card Post Cards – The most important part of the invite are the reply cards which were a collection of postcards I had from travels over the previous 15 years. I was a postcard collector, everywhere we’d go I’d pick one up. Turns out they were handy! So I picked the best ones {we even tried to match them to the state guests lived in} and put on a label with our address and a pre-made stick on label with space for the attendees names and dinner choices. With a postcard stamp {less postage} they didn’t require another envelope, another money savings.

The best part about this was we got them all back, some with fun notes from our future attendees.

I keep these in a photo album with the rest of our pictures. Once they were all assembled, stapled, labeled and stamped, we sent them off {checking on postal weight of course first}. It was a TON of work, but we saved ourselves hundreds of dollars by doing this on our own. The design, some of the paper and most of the materials were free. It was truly a labor of love and our guests raved about them. Doing something fun and creative like this set the mood for our wedding. It was great to send to people to make them feel like a special part of our day.

What do you think of the passport wedding invitations? Did I leave out any details you want to know about them?

*Update* I have had a lot of people ask about sharing the template for these invitations, but they were made on professional design software so I’m not able to share them. Sorry! If you’d like to hire my husband who made the invitations, you can contact him here.