Are PhotoStamps in good taste for weddings?

Weddings are a very popular way that people use PhotoStamps, so I was intrigued when I found a query on a wedding website, where someone was asking if using PhotoStamps for her wedding was ‘just too cheesy.’

Nobody answered her at the forum and by now her wedding is likely over, but if one person wonders about this, others will too. I’d like to go on record as saying that using wedding PhotoStamps to mail your invitations or thank you notes is not a cheesy thing to do!

All you need to do to be sure that your wedding PhotoStamps are in good taste is to design them to have a fairly simple layout. If you are going to use them for both the invitations and the thank you notes, you can’t go wrong with a picture taken during the ceremony. If you decide that will be of the bride and groom, then for the invitation you could use another photo of them, or you could select anything you wanted — from a graceful design to a nature shot.

When my husband and I got married (ahem, that was some time before the creation of PhotoStamps!) our wedding invitations featured photos of each us at about six years old. This idea could be adapted nicely for the invitations. You’d likely be scanning in old photos, or perhaps taking pictures of them with a digital camera, and then cropping them down a lot. Try going in pretty close on the faces or at least the upper bodies, so that the children are recognizable as the adults they have now become. If you like to play around in a photo editing program of any sort, you could turn the photos to sepia tones, just for that old-fashioned look.

Well, all this is about creating PhotoStamps that are nice, but what about the very idea of doing it? Does it have a cheese factor? I’m in good company in saying no. Martha Stewart is into personalized postage!

Perhaps sometime in the future, when PhotoStamps become much more popular, they will lack the surprise value that they have now. But at present, and likely for some time to come, wedding PhotoStamps add flair and fun to a special event. Here’s an example… click on it to find out more!