Our Wedding Invitation Styles

Here at I Do designs, we offer a wide range of wedding invitation styles, including flat, folded, wallet, loop-tied, cheque book and pocketfold designs. In this guide, we’ll focus exclusively on pocketfold wedding invitations.  They are one of our most popular and versatile styles.

We’ll explain what a pocketfold invitation is, why couples love them, the different sizes and formats available.  You will also learn about what you can include inside, and how to choose the perfect option for your wedding. Whether you’re planning an intimate celebration or a large formal wedding, this guide will help you decide if a pocketfold invitation is the right choice for you.

If you’d like to explore all of our wedding invitation styles before diving in, you can browse our full collection by style here.

What makes them stand out?

What makes pocketfold invitations stand out from other wedding invitation styles is this combination of a folded design, a fixed invitation panel and a practical pocket for loose inserts. They offer both elegance and organisation, making them a popular choice for couples who want their invitations to feel special while keeping everything neatly presented.

The Three Different Pocketfold Formats

Now that we’ve covered the basic concept of a pocketfold invitation, the next step is to look at the different formats available.

All of our pocketfold style wedding invitations share the same core design: they open out to reveal a fixed invitation panel and a pocket for inserts. However, the overall format can vary depending on the look and style you prefer.

As standard, we offer three different pocketfold formats:

Below we explore each of these formats in more detail to help you decide which style is the perfect fit for your wedding invitations.

What Shape and Size are our Pocketfolds?

Our standard, all three of our Pocketfold Style Wedding Invitation formats are square and measure 145 x 145mm when folded.

Other shapes and sizes are available on request.

How Many Inserts Can a Pocketfold Hold?

Our Pocketfold Wedding Invitations include two loose insert cards as standard, giving you plenty of space for additional wedding information alongside your main invitation.

If you need a little extra room, they can comfortably hold up to three insert cards. We find this provides the perfect balance between including all the important details and maintaining a neat, elegant presentation.

Because we use premium-quality card, adding a fourth insert would make the pocket too much of a tight squeeze.  If you have more information to include, don’t worry – we can often print your insert cards double-sided, allowing you to fit in additional details without overcrowding the pocket.

If you’re unsure how to fit everything in, we’re always happy to advise on the best layout and wording to ensure your invitations look beautiful while including everything your guests need to know.

Pocketfold Wedding Invitation Wording Tips

As we mentioned above, our pocketfold wedding invitations can hold upto three loose inserts, plus the invitation page.  But what wording goes inside?  Honestly, it depends on your wedding.  We are happy to personalise the wording and inserts to suit you.  Besides the main invitation here are some ideas for your loose inserts:

Directions

How to Personalise our Pocketfold Invitations

All of our designs are available in any colour.

Personalising your Pocketfold Wedding Invitations with us is a really simple process.

Simply choose your favourite format and style from our design gallery, click to request a free sample and on the enquiry form simply let us know what colour you’d like it to be.  We’re happy to mix and match different styles, colours, embellishments and fonts.

On the Front Cover

Our portrait and landscape pocketfolds suit a ‘personalised plaque’ on the cover really well.  The plaques measure 70 x 70mm as standard.  The front cover of our pocketcards have a larger plaque that measures 125 x 125mm so there’s a lot more space for wording.  All three formats can cope with ribbon, lace and other embellishments.

The cover plaque on your invitations can include the words ‘Wedding Invitation’ and your names or initials and your wedding date.  We’ve also printed quotes too.  Let us know your ideas and we can help.

Card Options

When finalising your invitation design the first choice you need to make is what card you’d like to use.  We offer a wide selection of card colours in smooth, textured and pearlised finishes.  If you’d like us to send you some swatches in your colour scheme before seeing a sample please get in touch.

You can choose different cards for your pocketfold base, mount cards and printed inserts.  If you have quite a few colours you’d like to incorporate we can look at adding extra layers of mount cards for you.

Ribbon Options

Once you’ve picked the card(s) you’d like to use then we can look at ribbon.

Do you even want ribbon on your invitations?  If so then we have a few different options to choose from:

Flat Ribbon

Bows – 3mm, 7mm, 10mm, 15mm, 25mm & 35mm

Knotted Ribbon

Embellishments

Simple clear round diamantes or ivory pearls are free of charge.

Fancier embellishments are a small added charge.  These include items such as lace, belly bands and ribbon buckles.

How Much do Pocketfold Invites Cost?

So the all important question … How much do Pocketfold Invites actually cost?

Our Pocketfold Style Invitations start from £5.00 each which included matt white or ivory envelopes for posting.  This includes 2 loose inserts as standard.  If you wanted to include an extra mout inside, ribbon and a plaque on the cover they would be around £6.00 each as a guideline.  Our prices are per invitation – not per guest.

Feel free to visit our pricing page for more details.

As a comparison, a Flat Invitation, with a mount card are £2.00 so there is a bit of a difference in price.  However, with a flat invitation you simply have one side of print and there’s not a lot of space for added guest information.

A pocketfold generally provides 4-5 sides of print (cover, invitation and upto 3 x inserts).  Not only do we need to consider the costs of extra card stock and printing but all of these take us time to design, format and proof for you which we have to take into consideration too.

Pocketfold invitations are ideal if you have menu choices. need accommodation information, want RSVP postcards, have transport details and want a luxury invitation.  They are probably not the best choice if you you only need to provide ceremony and venue details or if you’re working to a tight budget.  

How many Pocketfold Invitations do you need?

Our invitations are priced per invitation – not per guest.  So, for example if you are inviting 60 guests to your wedding day you’ll probably only need around 30-40 invitations.  You only need to send 1 invitation per couple, family or household.

Also, in our experience most of our couples only order Pocketfold invitations for their wedding day guests. 

For your evening guests we’d usually recommend a more simple flat style invitation.  They will be designed to match your wedding invitations in terms of your card, font and embellishment choices.

We hope you found this guide useful

We really hope you’ve found this guide to Pocketfold Invitations useful. 

If you have any further questions or special requests please feel free to get in touch.