Baptism and christening invitations
The quietest work I do, and the one where restraint matters most.
$65
Your details set by hand, usually back the same day. $145 to rebuild it in your own colours.
A baptism invitation is a religious document as much as a party invitation, and it usually gets kept. That changes the brief. It wants to be calm, legible, and light on decoration, because the family will still have it in a box in twenty years and anything trendy will have aged badly by then.
There is real variety in what families want here, and it splits along tradition. Catholic and Orthodox families often want something more formal, sometimes with a cross or a specific saint, and frequently with the church name and the officiating priest included. Protestant dedications tend to be simpler and more contemporary. Some families want scripture, some do not, and I will not assume.
Almost all of these events have a lunch or a gathering afterwards, which is a second set of logistics on the same card. A details card handles it without cluttering the invitation itself.
What changes for this one
Cream on cream, with type doing all the work. If a cross or religious mark is used, it goes small and it is drawn rather than pulled from a clip-art set. Scripture, if included, is set as a quiet block and never as decoration.
When to send
Three to four weeks. Church dates are usually fixed well in advance, so these are one of the few occasions where you can genuinely plan ahead.
Colours that work
Cream and bone, with a single warm accent. Ivory, soft gold or the palest sage. Nothing that competes with a white gown in the photographs.
Questions people ask about baptism invitations
Can you include scripture?
Yes, and send me the exact translation you want. Wording differs meaningfully between versions and this is not a place to paraphrase. It gets set as a quiet block, usually beneath the main details.
We need it in Spanish, or in two languages.
Both are common here and neither is a problem. A bilingual card is a layout question rather than a translation question, and I will need you to supply the Spanish wording since I will not machine-translate something a family is going to keep.
Do you design first communion and confirmation invitations too?
Yes, and the approach is the same: quiet, keepable, and formal enough to match the occasion. First communion invitations tend to include the child's photograph more often than baptisms do.
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- christening invitation — 880/mo
- first communion invitation — 390/mo
- custom baptism invitation — 110/mo
How to have this made
Custom invitation design
Designed from nothing for one event. No template underneath.
From $285
Day-of event paper
Menus, place cards, table numbers, programs and signage.
From $95
Thank you cards and stationery
The piece everyone forgets until the week after the party.
From $145
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.