Top 5 Wedding Fonts for Invitation Cards

The choice of font significantly impacts the way readers perceive and remember written information. It also sets the tone of your design and conveys a specific mood and personality, making it a critical element when designing wedding invitations.

Since each font has its own distinct style, a good rule of thumb is to pick the one that matches your wedding aesthetic. For example, handwritten fonts like Charlotte and Dayland look romantic and organic, so they're an excellent choice for feminine and floral designs. In contrast, sans serif fonts complement contemporary or minimalist styles because of their clean lines and lack of decorative strokes.

With hundreds of thousands of fonts to choose from, it can get overwhelming to choose the right one for your wedding invitations. So, here’s a list of wedding fonts that look great on these cards.

1. Great Vibes

This beautifully flowing connecting script is easy on the eye, thanks to its medium weight, minimal slant, and even X-height. Other notable features include elegant uppercase forms and looping ascenders and descenders.

Best paired with: Great Vibes often pairs well with sans serif fonts, such as Montserrat, which is known for its modern look, uniform and straight lines, high contrast between thin and thick strokes, and rounded terminals (or ends of strokes).

Design tip: Tip the angle of this font a bit to add interest to your typography without affecting the readability of your text.

2. Dayland

This modern calligraphy script font exudes a dazzling and organic feel, making it an excellent choice for wedding invites. It’s particularly ideal if you want romantic quotes to look like they have been handwritten. Additionally, the font's irregular baseline complements a distinctly feminine style.

Best paired with: Dayland, like many handwritten fonts, often goes well with serif fonts that have small feet at the end of a stroke on the letters (e.g., Georgia, Garamond, and Baskerville).

Design tip: To complement the organic feel of Dayland, consider adding leafy and floral shapes and patterns to the design.

3. Playfair Display

The serif font has high-contrast strokes (thick and thin) and was influenced by typefaces such as Bodoni and Baskerville from the mid- to the late eighteenth century. It looks great with elegant or minimalist wedding invitation designs.

Best paired with: Simple and light fonts like Poppins, Montserrat, Oswald, and Arialle.

Design tip: This versatile font has a timeless style, so it can be used in various designs, from trendy and simple to elegant and romantic.

4. Montserrat

Montserrat is a geometric sans serif font created by an Argentinian graphic designer inspired by posters and painted windows of the twentieth century. Although it is often used as body text because of its impressive readability, it also looks great as a lead, provided it is paired with fonts with an equally bold form.

Best paired with: Hammersmith has a similar weight to Montserrat, making them a great pair. Anek Bangla and Almarai fonts, with their rounded forms and modern vibes, also look harmonious with this sans serif font.

Design Tips: If you want to play it safe, you can combine different weights, styles, and sizes within Montserrat. The font also looks excellent when combined with designs that exude contemporary elegance — e.g., clean lines and simple shapes combined with images that have classic aesthetics.

5. Norwester

This attention-grabbing geometric sans serif font is best used for headings or, in the case of wedding invites, the names of the bride and groom. It is thick and heavy with soft round corners, resulting in excellent legibility.

Best paired with: If you want a stylish and contemporary look, Norwester and Kollektif are a great pairing. Montserrat also looks nice with Norwester because they complement each other's bold look.

Design tip: Use this font if you want your wedding invitation to have bold typography or if you want the couple's names to be the focal point of the design. Additionally, consider adding a vibrant background (e.g., bright orange or sunny yellow) to make the design more attention-grabbing.

Fonts can convey the wedding's theme and level of formality. For instance, bold contemporary fonts suggest a modern celebration, while elegant cursive fonts indicate a classic or romantic ceremony.

Now that you know how to pick wedding fonts that look great on invitations, check out UPrinting's extensive collection of free wedding invitation templates to help you design your cards in just a few minutes.

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