Confirmation invitations
I make custom confirmation invitations, personalised from an existing design for $65 or designed from scratch, then deliver everything as digital files.
The candidate is fourteen, not four, and an invitation that treats them like a child is the first thing they will notice.
$65
Your details set by hand, usually back the same day. $145 to rebuild it in your own colours.
Confirmation sits in an awkward and interesting place. It is a religious milestone in a family that has probably done a baptism card already, but the person at the centre is old enough to have opinions about how it looks. Pastel and cherubs will embarrass them. A card that reads as an adult event does not. The line that works is quiet, formal, grown-up type with one restrained mark, closer to a graduation announcement in register than to a christening.
Two details belong on the card that appear on no other invitation. The candidate usually chooses a confirmation name, taken from a saint, and naming it on the invitation is a real gesture towards the choice they made. The sponsor is the other one. Naming the sponsor honours a job that took months of accompanying the candidate, and families frequently forget to put it anywhere in writing. Both are worth a line.
Logistically it is nearly always two events on one card. A service at a set time in a named church, then a meal somewhere else, often with a gap between the two. Extended family travel for this, and grandparents in particular will want the church address written out in full rather than a link. A details card carries the meal, the address and the gap without crowding the service itself.
What changes for this one
Formal type doing most of the work, cream or bone stock, one small drawn mark if a mark is wanted at all. The confirmation name sits with the candidate's name, usually beneath it in smaller type. The sponsor gets a named line rather than a mention. Scripture, if the family wants it, is set as a quiet block, never as decoration.
When to send
Five to six weeks out. The diocese sets confirmation dates well in advance, so there is no excuse for late, and relatives travelling in need to book. Send earlier than you would for a baptism, because the guests are further away.
Colours that work
Bone and ink, or cream with a deep red or a soft gold. Restrained enough for a church and adult enough that a fourteen-year-old is happy to hand it to a friend.
Questions people ask about confirmation invitations
Should the confirmation name go on the invitation?
It usually does, set beneath the candidate's own name in smaller type. They chose it, and it is one of the few personal decisions in the whole sacrament, so it is worth printing.
Do we name the sponsor?
Convention allows it and most families do. A single line naming the sponsor acknowledges months of work that otherwise goes unrecorded. If the sponsor would rather not be named, that is fine too.
How do we handle the service and the meal on one card?
The service goes on the invitation with the church written out in full. The meal, the address and the gap between them go on a details card. Older relatives will read the paper rather than tap a link.
Can it not look like a children's card?
That is the whole brief here. Formal type, a restrained palette and at most one small drawn mark. It should sit closer to a graduation announcement than to a christening.
480
US searches a month for confirmation invitations, measured rather than guessed.
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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.