Create Perfect Wedding Shower Invitations With These Tips & Designs

Before the big day there’s another exciting event to plan — the wedding shower. It’s the perfect opportunity to gather with loved ones and celebrate what’s to come. 

Here, you’ll find top tips for creating custom, high-quality wedding shower invitations that will get your festivities off to a wonderful start. We’ll cover hosting considerations, setting the right tone, and customizing your invite with specific event and gift registry details. Plus, we’ll give you a head start with some stunning designs and wording examples.

Are Wedding Showers and Bridal Showers the Same Thing?

Though some people use the terms interchangeably, technically, wedding showers and bridal showers aren’t the same thing. Traditionally, bridal showers focus on the bride and have a primarily female guest list. Wedding showers, on the other hand, celebrate the couple together. It’s a more inclusive, co-ed event, and the guest list can include other couples, relatives, and friends of any gender.

Who Should Host the Wedding Shower?

The etiquette around who can host a wedding shower is pretty relaxed. In general though, a member of the wedding party or the couple’s family will take on the hosting responsibilities.

Ideally, different people will host the wedding shower, bachelor or bachelorette parties, and the rehearsal dinner to split up the responsibilities and expenses.

5 Tips for Designing Personalized Wedding Shower Invitations

To spread the word about the celebration, send digital wedding shower invitations. You can easily customize the design and simplify the RSVP process. Planning a wedding shower can be loads of fun, but it all feels so much more real when those RSVPs start rolling in. Here are our top tips for choosing and creating your invite.

1. Identify the Right Tone for the Wedding Shower Invitation

Is the engaged couple more light-hearted and whimsical in nature or more chic and glamorous? Or does the couple tend to fall into the classy, elegant, and formal category? Or maybe one or both of them are a romantic-at-heart? 

Determining the tone that best reflects the happy couple’s personalities and values is important. And it’s a critical step to take before selecting the wedding shower invitation design, font, color scheme, and wording, which will help set the mood for the gathering and expectations for guests. 

For example, a botanical and wildflower garden party design would lean more whimsical in tone, and a starlight dinner party would lean more classy and formal in tone. 

Another consideration is who the invitation will be going to. If it’s a room full of groomsmen and bridesmaids, getting cheeky would fly better than it would with an audience of grandmothers and older family members. Likewise, cultural and religious standards need to be factored in as well.

2. Select a Wedding Shower Theme or Style 

Once you’ve settled on the tone, you can choose a wedding shower theme that matches. Then, think about what that theme will look like. Consider which decor motifs and colors you’ll want to use.

For example, if you choose a brunch theme, you might go with a fruit motif with oranges and pinks. Or if you’re having a garden party shower, you might choose hydrangeas with lilac and cream.

While it can be easier to search for the right invitation if you have your theme first, you can also look through designs first to help you decide on a theme.

3. Browse Different Designs

Design: Lisa Travis

With some idea of what you’re looking for, start browsing through designs to see what stands out and inspires you. At Greenvelope, we have hundreds of wedding shower invitations across different styles, themes, and colors. There’s an online invitation to suit every taste — including this vibrant Papel Picado Banner design.

Even better, you’re not limited to the collection of wedding shower invites. It’s quick and easy to customize the text on any template, so you can find a fun baby shower or birthday party invite and turn it into your dream wedding shower invitation in minutes.

4. Customize Your Wedding Shower Invitations

Once you’ve found a design you love, it’s time to make it your own. The beauty of using digital invitations is you can personalize them more than a pre-printed design, which gives you space to express your creativity and include all the details that matter to you.

Choose your favorite color scheme from the options available, or work with our design team to add your own colors instead. Browse through our photo cards, and upload images to photo invites. Play around with the typography and text positioning. What starts out as an attractive template can quickly be transformed into a design that feels beautifully bespoke.

Along with customizing the way your invite looks, there’s plenty of space for you to change the text. If the tone selected was formal, ensure wording like “you’re cordially invited” is included. Or, if the best tone fit was lighthearted, use laid back wording like “Time to party and pop some bubbly!” 

Similarly, you can update the copy to change it from a bridal shower invite into a couple’s shower invite, or swap “bride-to-be” for “husband-to-be” or “spouse-to-be.” 

In addition, use our details panel to share extra information — like directions, a link to your wedding website, and gift registry information — without cluttering your invite design.

Help the Gift Registry Stand Out

Here are a few wording suggestions to draw attention to the registry:

• Your presence is desired first and foremost, but if you would like to bring a gift, the bride and groom are registered at Amazon.
• Shower them with love! Find their registry at Target.
• For your convenience, a registry has been set up at Crate & Barrel.
• We’ve made it easy. For gift ideas, find their registry at Macy’s.

5. Send Out Your Wedding Shower Invites

The beauty of online invitations is that you can take as much (or as little) time as you want — have them ready in a few minutes or come back later to perfect them. When you’re done, it’s time to share them with your VIP guest list of family members and other loved ones.

Once you’re happy with your design, you can send by email, text, or both. Send your invites right away, or schedule them for a date and time in the future. Once the invites are out, guests can RSVP in a couple of clicks — no more waiting for printed RSVP cards to land in your mailbox. Manage your RSVPs and guest list from one place, and enjoy a more streamlined way to approach planning and hosting the wedding shower.

Wording Inspiration to Fit the Theme

Struggling to find the perfect wedding shower invitation wording to fit the theme? Here are a few wording samples based on popular themes to get you started.

Brunch Celebration

Watch the couple’s faces sparkle when you pop the bubbly and toast their upcoming nuptials at a brunch celebration. 

Consider these wording suggestions:

• It’s time to celebrate with mimosas & matrimony in honor of the future Mr. & Mrs. (or Mr. & Mr. or Mrs. & Mrs.). 
• Let’s gather to toast the future newlyweds with brunch and bubblies.
• Love is meant to be savored — and so are pancakes. Meet us for brunch in celebration of the [Name] and [Name]. 

Virtual Party

If friends and family are scattered across the country, you can throw a virtual shower. Despite taking place through a screen, there’s still plenty of fun to be had. 

Add to the excitement with these wording suggestions:

• Help us shower the happy couple with love at their virtual wedding shower!
• You’re cordially invited to turn on your computer and join a virtual affair in celebration of the soon-to-be-married love birds.
• Dearly beloved, do you plan to gather with us for a virtual party as we shower the soon-to-be newlyweds with love? RSVP “I Do.”

Brews Before I Do

This couple’s shower theme is perfect for backyard BBQs or showers being held at a local brewery. 

Consider these wording suggestions for the invite:

• Love is brewing (and so is the beer). Help us make the soon-to-be newlyweds extra hoppy (oops … happy) by joining their upcoming wedding shower.
• Let’s gather for beers and cheers to celebrate [Name] and [Name]’s upcoming nuptials. 
• We’re celebrating perfect blends at [Name] and [Name]’s upcoming wedding shower! 

8 Stunning Wedding Shower Invitations to Inspire Your Celebration

Ready for a little wedding invite design inspo? Here’s a curated collection featuring some of our favorites to help you find the right match.

1. Brunch and Bubbly Invitation

Design: Robinson Creative House

This sweet Brunch and Bubbly invite is ideal if you’re hosting a brunch event to celebrate the upcoming wedding. It’s available in three gorgeous color options, or you can choose your own palette with the help of our designers.

2. Flor de Mosaico Invitation

Design: itsibelli

Enjoy a colorful mosaic wedding shower invitation with this Flor de Mosaico Invitation. This festive pattern and gorgeous design helps set the tone for a fun yet relaxed event — like, say, a taco party wedding shower theme.

3. Painted Umbrella Invitation

Design: Holly Whitcomb

This beautiful Painted Umbrella Invitation design offers a range of attractive abstract color schemes to select from that weave floral-inspired elements into the shape of an umbrella. Pair it with elegant topography to call out the key details of the wedding shower. This would make a great pick for a garden-party-themed wedding shower or a wedding shower hosted at a local art gallery. 

4. Boho Hoops Invitation

Design: Lissa Anglin

Embrace all things boho wedding with this delicate and detailed Boho Hoops Invite. The watercolor florals and greenery with gold foil accents make this a great choice for a bohemian-themed celebration.

5. Confetti Burst Wedding Shower Invitation

Design: Signature Greenvelope

This Confetti Burst Invitation features rainbow confetti and is equal parts playful and chic. This bold design gives an air of fun and can be customized for a casual theme or a virtual wedding shower. 

6. Simple Gradient Invitation

Design: Becky Nimoy Stationery

If you’re looking for a photo card design to help visualize that the event is meant to be a couple’s shower, this Simple Gradient Invite is ideal. There’s space for a beautiful photo with a subtle gradient effect that means it’s still easy to read all the event details below.

7. Colorful Gem Invitation

Design: Snow & Ivy

If you’re looking for a design that features plenty of color in a soft way, this Colorful Gem template is perfection. The subtle ombre blends the colors together beautifully for a look that feels contemporary and colorful — without being too bold.

8. I Do BBQ Invitation

Design: Jen Montgomery

Treat your guests to an “I Do BBQ” with this cute and casual BBQ invitation. Plan a fun backyard get-together, and send this nostalgic yet contemporary invite their way to let them know what to expect.

Celebrate the Big Day with Stunning Wedding Shower Invitations

There’s no shortage of wedding shower invites, but we hope this guide helps you narrow down the options so you can start having fun creating the perfect one.

For an easier way to create and send your invites, try our online wedding shower invitations. With hundreds of designs and an easy DIY customization process, you can create your own custom wedding shower invites in minutes. Plus, we have an array of thank you cards, save the dates, rehearsal dinner invitations, monogrammed wedding invitations, and more to help with all of your wedding-related needs.