How to Create Elegant Birthday Invitations

Make your birthday invitations as elegant as the affair itself.

Webster's New World Dictionary defines "elegant" as "luxurious or opulent in a restrained, tasteful manner." When you plan an elegant birthday event, your invitations should introduce invited guests to the approaching affair. With color, themes, script and text, your birthday invitations will exude your personal style and grace. Often, simplicity represents the soul of elegance. Ways to create elegant birthday invitations include using a computer program.

Things You'll Need

• Microsoft Publisher
• Card stock
• Printer
• Color ink

Instructions

1. Select a birthday invitation card from Microsoft Publisher's choices in "Invitation Cards" located on the left pane of Publisher's opening page. Pick a style with simple lines and layout for dramatic and elegant effect.

2. Alter any elements of the template that need to be changed to suit your taste. If, for example, you prefer even less clutter, click on a border to change it or delete it.

3. Add a design element from "Design Gallery Object." If you want to add or change borders, for example, select "Insert" from the top of the template and scroll down to "Design Gallery Object." Select the design element, such as a border, you want from the Design Gallery and select "Insert Object."

4. Choose muted colors and blue or black font colors from the "Format Publications" pane on the template. View the color scheme options to get the look of the different color schemes.

5. Phrase the birthday invitation text with simplicity. Write, for example,
   You are cordially invited to a birthday high tea in honor of Amanda Adams
   in the Main Dining Room of the Brown Palace Hotel,
   Denver, Colorado
   Friday 12 December 2011
   Three o'clock PM
   RSVP
   Include self-addressed and stamped RSVP cards.

6. Print your invitations on white or cream card stock. Send them in matching envelopes addressed in the same font style and color as the invitations.

Tips & Warnings

• Publisher guides the printing process from its "Print" option.

References

• "Webster's New World College Dictionary Fourth Edition"; 2008

Resources

• Make Your Own Invitations: Birthday Invitation Wording