Traditional or not??

Hey ladies, I'm confused so I hope you can all help me.

 

First off I've never been to any destination wedding and I'm planning on getting married in Hawaii. I've always thought the traditional wedding invites and save the dates were beautiful (it's all I've ever known of!) But ever since I came onto this site and I saw all of your cute creative invites (passports and plane tickets) I'm totally wanting to do them!! I don't think they're as traditional "elegant" looking but I think they are so cute and fit with the destination theme!! It's fun and a great way to tie in all the elements that are helpful with a destination wedding such as activities to do, weather, where to stay, etc.

 

What do you think?? Tradition invites (and STDs) or a fun (and helpful informational) passports and plane tickets invites?? TIA!!

I love the passport/boarding passes! They're great!

I love the boarding pass and passport invites! They are so much fun! There are ladies who went the DIY route and had the most polished invitations. If you're not a DIY person, there are some great invitation vendors who specialize in DW invites. I made DIY boarding passes for the STDs. Everyone really liked them but they weren't as polish as I had hoped. For invites, I just ordered traditional ones from weddingpaperdivas. It would be a disaster if I attempted to make passport invites and I wanted to keep costs low.

 

You should totally do the passport invites! They look SO cool!

I wish I had found this website before sending my invites...I would have used the boarding pass ones for sure!!

I used my boarding passes for STDs and Passports for invites. I didn't want to make my invites formal.. just fun and exciting.

We are only doing traditional for the wedding invites and the marriage announcement with AHR invite. We are sending out so many different things but here is what we have planned so far:

• Flip Flop Invites - Bridal Shower
• Movie Poster Spoof - Engagement Announcements
• Boarding Pass - Save the Date
• Picture Pocket Fold - Wedding Invites, Marriage Announcement with AHR invites included
• Picture Postcard - AHR reminder
• Picture Collage Thank Yous

We did the boarding pass STD, Passport for our update information and Message in Bottle for our Invites. You can do the travel ideas and make them elegant.

What is the message bottle invites?? Pictures of it?? And I'd love to see a really formal elegant boarding pass/passport style invite!! I bet it'll look cool! Got pictures of that too?? (Hehee!!)

What is the AHR??

It is a "At Home Reception". We have 2 guests list; one list is invited to the wedding & AHR, the other guest list is for those we are only inviting to the AHR.

I have a couple places you can look at all kinds of boarding pass STDs; some are more formal, some are not.
My planning album: Picasa Web Albums - adias angel - Save The Date
Boarding Pass Thread: http://bestdestinationwedding.com/forum/t22754