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Your Halloween Invitations Should Have Originality

August 12, 2011 by Sarah Porter · Comments Off
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Originally, Halloween invitations, and, well, invitations for any type of event were handwritten and were a simple ‘please come to our event’, with a date and time.  Invitations have come such a long way that we now have invitations to not only invite friends and family, but they can be a source of entertainment all [...]

Christmas Invitations Can Travel the World

August 12, 2011 by Sarah Porter · Comments Off
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When most people think about Christmas invitations, they don’t look at the invitation and say, “What started the invitation?” Well, it’s simpler than most may realize.  The origin of the word ‘invitation’ dates back to 1590–1600 century and is Latin deriving from the word invitatus or invitare meaning “the spoken or written form in which [...]

Halloween Invitations that Won’t Break the Bank

August 9, 2011 by Sarah Porter · Comments Off
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The use of invitations, use to only be done by the elite to show education and sophistication.  But, when they started to get a little lazy, because their parties were so large and doing them by hand took up far too much time.  The elite, roughly in the 19th century, started to use printing presses.  [...]

Christmas Invitations can Show off Your Sophisticated Side

August 9, 2011 by Sarah Porter · Comments Off
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While invitations have been around for centuries, the concept of sending out Christmas invitations or wedding invitations didn’t really start to become popular until the start of the 20th century.  The printing press appeared in Europe in the mid 13th century and was used primarily for newspapers, flyers and books.  It finally began to get [...]

Halloween Invitations Should be Fun and Creative

August 5, 2011 by Sarah Porter · Comments Off
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Planning your Halloween Invitations, http://www.holiday-invitations.com/halloween-invitations/ for your scary Halloween Party is always loads of fun and even better when you make the Invitations Halloween a spooky theme. But, it might be interesting and helpful to know a bit about the history of Halloween so your Halloween Invitation Party theme really stands out.