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What You Need to Remember When Making Birthday Invitations

1. Decide how much time you've got. If your birthday is in November and you have time to plan a few months before, then hand-made invitations are a good option. Personally made cards are more touching and more intimate than ready-made ones. If you are still a good three or two months before the actual date, you can do some window shopping on the materials that you would want to use. Also, spend some time looking up some ideas in the Internet for themes, invitation designs and proper wordings. No time to make hand-made invites? Just buy a stack from bookstores or stationery shops or print samples from the Internet.

2. Decide on what materials you should use. What materials can you easily purchase or acquire, what would best reflect your personality and how much are you willing to shell out. Special papers, coloring materials, ribbons and other usual stuff are always easy to buy from stores. If you are the environmentalist type, use what nature has to offer. Dried leaves, hay and other natural products would not go amiss, especially if you have time to get them together. Think also of how you want to spend your special day; a dance, a formal dinner, a costume party, a theme park get-together, an outdoor picnic? However you want to spend it, the design and materials of your invitations should reflect this.

3. Consider the age of the celebrant. If you're not the celebrant but is actually tasked with taking care of the invitations, say, for your own child, make sure that his or her age is reflected in the invitation. A formal dinner party for adults will require a formal invitation. A birthday party for a toddler (which would likely include activities for kids) should be colorful and laden with figures and pictures that children will recognize and identify with. To put it in a simpler manner, you don't need to send an invitation with silk coverings if you are going to have a swimming party or an outdoor picnic.

4. Consider the personalities of your guests. If you are going to invite families and friends and people who have more than a casual relationship with you, a humorous and casual invitation is alright. But if you plan to invite the city mayor and you are not exactly on first name basis, better make the invitation (and the wording) a bit more formal.

Your birthday invitations should be planned in much the same way as the party itself. Remember that invitations will partly decide whether your party will be well-attended and whether it will end up a successful and memorable one.