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Baby Shower Invitations

The Hardest Part Will Be Choosing Your Favorite Style

By Donna Pilato, About.com

One of the first things to set the mood and style for a baby shower is the invitation your guests receive. Luckily the Internet is full of selections, making it unnecessary to leave the comfort of home when shopping for this item.

Casual or formal, cute or elegant, we've looked high and low to turn up the best baby shower invitations available online. You'll find a wide selection of invitation styles and prices in the list of links below. There are even a couple of choices for invitations printed on chocolate bar wrappers. That's what I call a sweet invitation!

This collection leads to sites that have at least several choices to help make your shopping more efficient. All of these invitations can be personalized, and some companies will even do the work of addressing and mailing them for you.

Invitations should be sent 4-6 weeks prior to the shower. Don't forget to include the following information:

  • Name of guest of honor
  • Date
  • Time
  • Place
  • Whether it will be a surprise.
  • RSVP date and phone number or return card.

Don't miss the links at the end for suggested wording on your invitations.

The Invitations

Absolutely Paper - A large selection of designs tending toward the more formal or elegant.

Baby Shower Mall - Seven muted designs on photo quality, glossy finished paper.

Colors by Design - A large selection of designs, suitable for showers or birth announcements. Printed on an elegant card stock that is compatible with most laser or ink jet printers if you choose to print them yourself.

Custom Creations Unlimited - Cute and colorful designs on 110lb, acid free card stock. Free proof with order and fast shipping.

Free Printable Baby Shower Invitations - Cute baby diaper pin invitations in jpg format that can be downloaded in a zip file.

Gaddis Design - A design studio that produces very elegant invitations. You can select from their portfolio or work with a designer to create your own custom design.

Impressions In Print - An attractive selection of colorful invitations to suit most casual tastes.

Naptime Productions - Custom produced, formal invitations printed on high quality, semi-transparent velum, tied with a ribbon to parchment.

Party-Invitations - A selection of seven baby shower invitations for custom printing. Choice of thermographic raised printing, offset flat printing, or blank stock for you to print on a laser printer. Scroll to the bottom of the page to find the selections.

Sendomatic - Email invitations with contemporary graphics, and some with sound or animation.

Storkie Express - A choice of four designs, three of which have a contemporary flavor.

Favorite Announcements - These candy bar wrappers can be personalized for favors, invitations or announcements.

Personalized Candy Bar Wrapper - Customized candy bar wrappers that can be used for invitations or favors.

Taylor Card Company - A selection of 55 cards from which to choose. Many have a traditional feel about them.

Suggested Wording

Baby Shower Wording - A page of suggested wording for baby shower invitations, from Colors by Design.

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