Family reunion invitations
The only invitation in this studio that has to reach a nineteen-year-old and a ninety-year-old with the same piece of paper.
$65
Your details set by hand, usually back the same day. $145 to rebuild it in your own colours.
A family reunion invitation faces a problem no other invitation has: the guest list spans four generations and every level of comfort with technology. A digital-only invitation quietly excludes the relatives who are hardest to reach and most likely to travel. A print-only invitation makes replying slow for the cousins who would answer a link in thirty seconds. The realistic answer is both, from one design, which is why these are usually laid out twice.
Reunions also carry more logistics than a wedding, and none of them are optional. Dates, usually across a weekend rather than a single day. Cost per family, if there is one, which there almost always is once a pavilion or a hall is booked. Where people are staying and whether a block was reserved. Whether there is a schedule and what happens each day. All of that needs to be on the invitation or on one enclosure, because it is the information a family needs before they can commit.
The other function these cards quietly serve is genealogy. A reunion invitation with the family name and the year on it ends up in albums and boxes, and it is often the only dated record of the gathering. Setting the year properly and naming the branch of the family being gathered turns a logistics document into something that gets kept.
What changes for this one
Designed to be read by older eyes: larger body type than any other card here, real contrast, no pale grey text. Laid out twice, once for print and once for a screen. If a family crest, a photograph or an old family house exists, it belongs on the card and it is the element people react to.
When to send
Four to six months out. People are booking travel, taking time off, and coordinating with other branches of the family. Reunion attendance is decided far earlier than any other event in this list.
Colours that work
Warm and timeless rather than fashionable, because this card sits in an album next to ones from twenty years ago. Bone, ink, a single deep accent.
Questions people ask about family reunion invitations
How do we reach relatives who are not online?
Print, posted, with a phone number to reply to. The same design is laid out for a screen for everybody else. Both versions come as standard for this collection.
How far ahead should reunion invitations go out?
Four to six months. Families are arranging travel, time off and childcare across several households, and that decision happens early.
Should the cost be on the invitation?
Yes, per family and stated plainly. Cost is the thing that decides attendance, and burying it means people ask three separate relatives instead of you.
Can you design the weekend schedule too?
Yes, as a matching enclosure or a booklet. For a multi-day reunion it is usually more useful than any other piece of paper you produce.
880
US searches a month for family reunion invitations, measured rather than guessed. Nearly every page here targets a term almost nobody is defending properly.
- class reunion invitation — 320/mo
- welcome home invitation — 210/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
Announcement design
New baby, new house, new name, new chapter.
From $165
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.