Ticket invitations present an ideal and convenient way of informing the invitees of what to expect at the event. Tickets have been used for a long time as a means of getting into a theatrical event, live musical extravaganzas and performances as well as any other events, such as conferences, where participants are either invited or have to pay to attend the event. Tickets have been traditionally used either as a means of crowd control/security measure or to generate revenue. But they work great as an invitation.
What Are Ticket Invitations?
Properly designed ticket invitations can have the same effect as the famous Charlie’s golden invite ticket Willy Wonkas chocolate factory. Apart from achieving such profound effect on the invitees, a properly designed ticket invite should serve as some form of souvenir for the great times shared and money properly invested.
Ticket invitations can be used to jazz up that backyard barbeque or house party that has been in the pipeline for a while now. Ticket invites can be designed following an array of themes to suit your special event.
Common Ticket Invitation Themes
- Movie and TV
- Airline
- Hollywood
- Religious
- Natural scenery
- Modern architecture
- Cars
An airline ticket invite theme is especially ideal if you want to have your guests all fired up for an intriguing and adventurous event. The invites look exactly like a plane ticket which can easily be designed and printed at home. The design can be as fancy as you would be able to make them, but if you lack a creative bone in your body you could simply adopted a simple predesigned template. When shopping for this type of invites, it is vital that you go for a theme that will fit in with your event so that your guests can have a lasting impression of a great event.
Types Of Popular Ticket Invitations
These invitations can be used for a variety of events. Some of the most popular ticket invites include: birth announcements, engagements, weddings, birthday parties, bridal showers, surprise parties, baby showers, sports events, tea parties, graduation events, super bowl events tickets and many others. They are an excellent way of inviting friends and family to a special and fun filled event.
These truly unique invitations are available in the standard size of 2” height by 5.5”width with a wide ranging color array of grey, orange, yellow, purple, red, pink, green, light blue and blue. The envelopes holding these highly personalized and authentic invitation tickets are color coordinated they match the color of the invite inside and measure 5 ¾“by 4 ½“. Usually, grey ticket invites are enclosed in sparkling white envelopes. The tickets can even be used as a form of seating card where they are printed with the name of a particular guest and table number for easier location. This service is available at an additional cost.
The process of designing ticket invitations as mentioned earlier depends on the amount of time and talent that a designer has. A ticket designed to act as a form of admission to some scheduled events would require the following items to create: some glossy paper or card stock, a printer and a software for word processing. Once you have opened up the word processing program all that you would need to do is to choose a suitable template which you can further customize to give it a more personal touch.
Some of the areas that you would need to work on include the headings and wordings therein. After you are done doing that, proofread your work to ensure there are no mistakes. A typical invite will contain the type of event, date, address of the event venue, start possible end time as well as all the necessary RSVP info.
The final step of making ticket invitations involves the printing process. The printer has to be ready with the glossy paper or card stock. The color of the invitation ticket heavily depends on the type of event being planned. Before printing out the cards and cutting them into individual invites, it is important to carry out a test print, preferably on an ordinary and plain printing paper. This will give you a rough idea of how the final invite ticket will look like by simulating the wordings, text size and fonts.
If you wish to go the DIY way and print some customized ticket invitations at home, it is vital that you print standard tickets so that they can fit into a standard envelope for mailing purposes. This will save you some cash on extra postage costs. Always remember that these invites are all about aesthetics, so if you are not quite sure about your designing skills, please get a professional ticket invites designer to design some for your event.