Passport Wedding Invitations

What is in a passport wedding invitation suite?

A passport cover that folds to 5 × 7 inches, with a foil-look emblem and your names. Inside, the data page is the invitation: your photo, names, date, time, venue and destination laid out like a real passport page, with a signature line and the two-line machine-readable code at the bottom. The facing page has your weekend itinerary, a route map from home to the destination and passport stamps.

With it: an 8 × 3.5 inch boarding pass (the RSVP or the main invitation), a save the date ticket and a 5 × 2.5 inch RSVP card that tucks into the passport.

Why is ours different from a Canva template?

Template shops sell a file you edit yourself, usually on a computer: you type every field, draw your own stamps and invent a flight number. Here the details are generated from what you type. The airport codes come from the nearest airport with scheduled flights, the flight number from your initials and date, boarding time from your start time, and the passport line follows the real ICAO 9303 format with correct check digits, the detail guests love to decode.

Every design element is our own: compass, plane, globe, laurel and monogram emblems. We never copy a country’s real passport crest.

When should I send destination wedding invitations?

Most planners suggest save the dates 8 to 12 months ahead for a destination wedding, so guests can book flights and leave, and the invitation itself about 3 months before, with an RSVP date 4 to 8 weeks before the wedding to give the venue final numbers. For international guests, add a few weeks.

How do I print and assemble the passport?

Print sheet 1 (the cover) on 250–300 gsm cardstock and the inside pages on 120–170 gsm paper, at 100% / actual size. Cut on the crop marks, fold the cover on the dashed fold marks, then glue the data page on the right and the itinerary on the left, or staple both in the fold. A print shop can use the separate file with 1/8″ (3 mm) bleed, trimmed to size.