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Décor, Entertaining – Weddings, Home & Garden | October 5th, 2009 1 Comment

Wedding napkins can be used for an assortment of wedding activities. Great for engagement parties’ showers, rehearsal, bachelorette bachelor parties, dinners and wedding receptions. Napkins can be used to tie color and theme into the whole wedding process. Purchasing napkins with a unique touch involves more than a swift stop at the local party store.

You want your napkins to imitate your theme and fit with your decoration corresponding them to your cake topper or invitations is a huge place to start. If you have chosen to create unique artwork for your wedding you may want to put that on your napkins. However, you may have to take your design to a local print or graphics business. A bigger charge is often incurred for napkins with unique designs. You often have a number of selections for the phrasing on your napkins.

Most companies will offer several script or calligraphy designs along with a few plain block text options. Select a design that complements the writing on your invites or wedding programs. Wedding napkins letting comes with an option of ink as well. Because most dark colors deep burgundy navy forest green do not show black ink well consider getting your lettering done in foil. Gold or silver is suitable. Foil lettering will cost a little more than regular ink. Light colored napkins often can hold up a wide range of ink colors. If you want to only get one color of napkins for your wedding activities you can save a lot of money by opting for a light color with darker lettering as compare to paying extra for foil on dark napkins. Selecting napkins in at least two colors makes for a beautiful display when fanned out on cake and buffet tables.

Most couples choose to go with their main wedding color plus the accent color. They may also select popular combinations like Black and white, Black and gold, Silver and black, Silver and gold, White and their main color, Black and their main color, Gold or silver with their main color.

Cocktail napkins, also called beverage napkins, average 5″ x 5″ and are perfect for the cocktail or juice bar and wedding cake table. Printed with a drawing or monogram, the bride and groom’s names and wedding date, custom printed paper beverage napkins will amuse your guests.

Luncheon Napkins are typically 6 1/2″ x 6 1/2″ and are used at the buffet table or on the guest table.
Plan on ordering one to two luncheon napkins per guest is supplied at the buffet table or 1 napkin per guest if presented on the guest tables.

Dinner Napkins are typically 8 1/2″ x 8 1/2″ and are normally folded and placed on the guest tables.

Whether you have yet to think of the type of wedding napkins you will use at your wedding reception or your caterer is already supplying your napkins, take a moment out of your busy schedule to settle on what type of napkins you will need and where they will be used.

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