| e History | | | | reliable and upon that these were almost nonexistent |
| A man walking the streets while announcing the | | | | from many areas back then. Generally a servant used |
| wedding was a traditional way of dictating the | | | | to deliver all the cards or a member from the family |
| wedding invitations between 17th to 19th centuries. This | | | | took this responsibility of delivering all the cards to their |
| person was known as the town crier and generally | | | | respective destinations. The other way was to hire a |
| shouts the wedding ceremony details in a loud manner. | | | | courier agent who used horses to make prompt and |
| Everyone who heard the invitation was allowed in the | | | | faster delivery. People used to wrap their cards in |
| wedding ceremony. Many would thought that why | | | | double envelop so as to safeguard them against dust |
| weren't the invitations handwritten? The answer is | | | | or damage in transit. The delivered cards were |
| simple because people in those times were actually | | | | received by the butler or maid of the house who |
| illiterate so that they were not able to read any written | | | | would remove the outer envelope and handed the |
| message though they could understand and | | | | inner envelop along with the invitation to the master or |
| communicate verbally. Families belonging to higher | | | | mistress of the house. |
| classes, where every member was educated, still | | | | With developments in thermograph, a time came when |
| used to send wedding invitations written in hand to | | | | people belonging to all the classes of society were |
| other friends in higher society. | | | | able to afford wedding invitations. Thermograph |
| With the invention of printing press along with the | | | | produced shiny cards with raised lettering without |
| invention of metal-plate engraving, bought a whole new | | | | impressing the surface of the paper, gaining more and |
| concept in the way wedding invitation were made. The | | | | more popularity day by day. This technique was |
| text of the invitation card was engraved in reverse | | | | popular amongst the masses as it gave the ability to |
| manner onto a metal plate using the carving tool which | | | | live a life in a more standard way there by showing |
| was then used to print the cards. Tissue papers were | | | | off individual materialism to the society. |
| used to save the cards engraved by placing them on | | | | The Present |
| the top of it. Then came the time when printing | | | | In modern day world Letterpress printing has made a |
| technology advanced and it was possible to print | | | | mark by producing results with deep impression having |
| cards without engraving them. The advanced | | | | unique craft appeal to them. These printing presses |
| technology resulted in producing sharp and distinctive | | | | are less in number though they have their own way to |
| prints which established the way for several markets | | | | become big printing press in future. More recently, laser |
| to emerge as wedding cards retailers and printers. | | | | machines are used to engrave on wood as well as to |
| The postal services in older times weren’t very | | | | mark certain types of metal invitations. This technique |
| good as there was always a chance of damage to | | | | is the most modern technique in the market of |
| the wedding invitations. These services never remain | | | | wedding invitations and is here to last longer. |