Baby shower invitations
The most requested thing in this studio, and the one where the difference between designed and templated is most obvious.
$65
Your details set by hand, usually back the same day. $145 to rebuild it in your own colours.
Baby shower invitations have a specific problem: almost every option available leans hard on pastel and cartoon animals, and a lot of people throwing a shower in their thirties do not want either. The event is usually held in somebody's home or a nice restaurant, the flowers are real, and the invitation is the only element that looks like it came from a party store.
What works instead is treating it like any other grown-up gathering that happens to be about a baby. Real botanical illustration rather than cartoon giraffes, a restrained palette taken from whatever the host is actually decorating with, and type that would look at home on a dinner party invitation. The occasion is soft; the design does not have to be.
The other thing a shower invitation has to carry is more logistics than most: registry details, whether it is a co-ed shower, a book-instead-of-a-card request, sometimes a meal. That is a hierarchy problem, and the reason a lot of them look cluttered is that everything got the same weight. Details cards exist for exactly this.
What changes for this one
The registry line is the piece most people get wrong. It belongs on a details card or in small type at the base, never competing with the date. If the shower is a surprise, that word has to be the most prominent thing after the time, because guests arriving loudly is the classic failure.
When to send
Send four to six weeks out. Showers are usually held in the second trimester or early third, and guests travelling in need the runway. If there is a registry, it should be live before the invitation goes out.
Colours that work
Sage and cream, dusty blush with warm neutrals, or terracotta and bone. All three photograph well against real flowers and none of them read as a nursery.
Questions people ask about baby shower invitations
How do we handle the registry without it looking grabby?
Put it on a separate details card, or in small type at the very bottom of the invitation. The convention that has settled is a single line with the store name or a short link, never a full list. If it is on its own card, guests who want it find it and guests who do not are not confronted with it.
It is a surprise shower. Does that change the design?
Yes, meaningfully. The word "surprise" needs to sit near the top and be unmissable, and there is usually a line asking guests to arrive by a specific earlier time. That is a design change, not just a copy change, because two pieces of timing information have to coexist without confusing anyone.
Can you match our shower theme?
Send me a photo of anything you have already bought, or a link to the flowers, the cake, or the venue. Matching a real object works far better than matching a described theme, because I can pull the actual colours rather than guessing what you mean by "sage."
14,800
US searches a month for baby shower invitations, measured rather than guessed. Nearly every page here targets a term almost nobody is defending properly.
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How to have this made
Custom invitation design
Designed from nothing for one event. No template underneath.
From $285
Thank you cards and stationery
The piece everyone forgets until the week after the party.
From $145
Party printables and extras
Favour tags, envelope liners, stickers, banners, water bottle labels.
From $75
Start with a First Look
$45 for one finished concept designed for your event, back in three days. It comes off whatever you book, and if you do not love it you keep the file and owe nothing.