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THEMES

A part from pattern and design, standard Invitations are
also classified based on certain themes. Famous
themes that are used throughout are the themes that
are based upon pastel, devotion, royal and Romance.

3) RELIGION

Religion plays an important part in the design and
wording of the card. The number of Inserts to be used,
the colour of the invite, theme etc., are influenced by
religion. In some religions there are different types and
wordings for the wedding Invite and each sect and
subsect within a religion may adopt different styles.
Some Hindu religions have multiple ceremonies and
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require cards for each of the ceremonies. The themes,
fonts and colours do go hand in hand with different
religions. Some of the popular invitations apart from
the wedding invitations that are based on the Hindu
religions are Upanayanam cards, Sacred Griha Pravesh
card, Naming ritual card, Walima card, First Holy
Communion card etc., There are different types of
cards used throughout the world like Hindu Cards,
Muslim Cards, Christian Cards, Jewish Cards,Sikh
Cards etc. Let’s look at each of them in detail.

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