14 Beautiful Wedding Fonts for Your Invitations

The wedding planning is officially underway and the next thing on your to-do list is send out your invitations. While you can pay to have a specialist take care of this pesky task, creating your own invites may be easier than you imagine. First things first, you’re going to need to choose the most fitting font for your invitations.

“The invitation or the save the date will be the first piece that a guest will receive that sets the tone of your event,” says stationer Jordan Kentris. “Picking the right fonts can help set that tone by giving your guests a sense of what to expect. It should provide them with an idea of how they should dress for the event, how formal the event will be in structure, and what kind of feeling they'll get when they arrive at the event.”

Fortunately enough, there are plenty of free wedding fonts you can use for your invitations. When you start looking for the right fit, you will find that there’s a treasure trove of wonderful options online. To make things simple, keep in mind that this style will need to align well with all of your wedding accessories. 

“Make sure you pick a font or fonts that will work with all the other printed goods for the wedding as you’ll want to carry that styling through to the event's day-of paper goods, thank you cards, gifts, and more,” Kentris adds. 

Types of Fonts to Consider for Your Invitations 

Ahead of looking at some of the best wedding fonts, here’s a crash course in typography. If you’re new to the world of fonts, understanding the basics will help you find the ideal one for your invitations. With that in mind, here are the main styles of font that you will be looking at when making the decision. 

Script Fonts

“Script fonts have a formal feeling and are grounded in traditional styling,” says Kentris. “Many have lots of flourishes—the swooshes and extras around each letterform—which add to the ornate styling.”

Calligraphy Fonts

“[These] are varied these days and can be a mix of modern calligraphy, where the letters are varied and feel more hand-drawn, to a traditional calligraphy style that looks closer to a script-style font,” says Kentris. 

Serif Fonts

“Serif fonts are great for print design, as they have extra ‘feet’ as they are sometimes referred to, that help bridge the visual lines between each letter and make for better legibility overall,” says Kentris. “There are two styles of serif fonts: more traditional, grounded in centuries-old styling, that feel like they belong in old history books, and a modern serif styling that is elevated [and] borrows from current design trends [but] still is grounded in tradition.”

Sans Serif Fonts

“Sans serif fonts are the cleanest letters, with no extra flourishes or feet. They are excellent for digital invitations but also the most legible,” says Kentris. "They have a modern elegance and can be paired together to create contrast through different thicknesses of fonts.”

Now that you’re well-versed in the various font types, it’s time to decide which will work for your wedding invitations. We’ve done the hard work for you and scoured the web for 14 of the loveliest fonts. So, without further ado, here’s our definitive list of favorites you can download right now.