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Tarot Card Wedding Invitations, the Birdhouse197 Guide
If your wedding Pinterest board is full of celestial illustration, rich black card and gold foil, you're in the right place. At Birdhouse197 we've been designing tarot card wedding invitations since the very beginning, and it's still the collection we're most proud of. Not because tarot is trending (though it is), but because it genuinely lends itself to the most beautiful, meaningful wedding stationery we've ever made.
A tarot card wedding invitation is shaped and illustrated like a real tarot card, with the artwork on the front and your wedding details on the back. In this guide we walk through every card we draw, the positive meaning behind each one for a wedding, and how to choose the right card for the two of you.
Why Tarot Works So Well as a Wedding Invitation
A tarot card isn't just an aesthetic, it's a story. The imagery, the symbolism, the sense that something important is being revealed. That's exactly what a wedding invitation should feel like. Not a piece of paper with dates and addresses on it, but something your guests hold and feel the weight of.
And you don't need to read tarot to love it. For a wedding, it's simply about choosing a card whose message says something about you: love, joy, new beginnings, a future built together.
THE MAJOR & MINOR ARCANA
The Cards We Draw, and What They Mean
Real tarot cards, redrawn in our own style. Each one carries a meaning, and every meaning here is a good one.
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The Lovers
What it means for a wedding: Union, love and a choice made with your whole heart. It's the card most couples reach for, and the most obvious wedding card in the whole deck.
Our Lovers sits closest to the original Rider-Waite tradition, with our own spin added, and the black with gold foil is one of our favourites. Prefer it darker? Skeleton Lovers is the gothic take on the same card. Available as save the dates (flat, foiled or arched), a gatefold and full suites. See The Lovers Tarot.
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The Empress & The Emperor
What it means for a wedding: The Empress is abundance, warmth and love that grows. The Emperor is stability and protection, the foundation you build a life on. Together they make a beautifully balanced pair.
Bold, romantic and deeply illustrated, as a gatefold that opens to reveal your details inside. See the gatefold.
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The Star
What it means for a wedding: Hope, healing and faith in the future. A gentle card, and a lovely one for couples who have been through a lot to get here.
Moon, stars and zodiac detail, and in inky blue it's the night sky at its best. Available as a gatefold, a save the date and menu cards. See The Star Tarot.
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The Sun
What it means for a wedding: Joy, warmth and success. One of the happiest cards in the deck, for couples who want their wedding to feel like pure celebration.
Drawn on an arched save the date, plain or foiled, and the kraft brown version has become one of our most recognised pieces. See The Sun & The Star.
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Ace of Cups
What it means for a wedding: New beginnings in love, and a heart so full it overflows. Cups is the suit of emotions and relationships, and the Ace is where it all starts.
Available as a save the date and a gatefold invitation. See The Cups Tarot.
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Ten of Cups
What it means for a wedding: Happy ever after. Emotional fulfilment, family and everything coming together. Known as the celebration card.
The card that started our Cups range, as a foiled save the date. In iridescent foil the whole design transforms when the light hits it. See the Ten of Cups.
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The 3-Card Tarot Spread
What it means for a wedding: In a reading, three cards are often laid out as past, present and future. For a wedding, that could be how you met, where you are now, and the future you're promising each other.
Three cards, artwork on the front and your details on the back, chosen from our 18 tarot designs. See the 3-Card Tarot Spread.
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The Full Deck
All 18 of our tarot designs, drawn as a set.
From The Lovers and The Sun to The Moon, The World and The Fool, the full deck works as table names instead of numbers, on a tarot seating chart, or as the cards in your spread. Get the set of 18 prints, or read what every card means, and who to seat at each, in our tarot seating chart guide.
Tarot Inspired Designs
Not every design in our range is a traditional tarot card. These are drawn in the shape and spirit of tarot, with their own stories.
The Crystal Ball is where it all began: a tarot card that was an invitation. The Bleeding Heart was our own wedding invitation in 2022. Sun & Moon and Dusk & Dawn bring the celestial side, In This Life & The Next is a ghostly love story, and Star-Crossed Lovers is Romeo + Juliet, more dramatic and more extra.
How to Choose Your Card
Start with what you want your invitation to say. The Lovers for classic romance, The Sun for pure joy, The Empress and The Emperor for building a home together, and the Ten of Cups for family and happy ever after. If you can't pick just one, that's exactly what the 3-Card Tarot Spread is for.
Then think about colour. Every design can be printed in any colour or gradient, whether that's deep burgundy and black, soft sage and gold, or purple gradients.
“George has gone above and beyond to help with the process of getting my tarot card save the dates printed.”
Robert S. | Read all our Google reviews
Tarot Card Wedding Invitations with RSVP
Our tarot designs come as save the dates, invitations and full suites with matching RSVP cards, on the same card and in the same illustration style. You'll see a digital proof first, with your names, date and wording, and we'll make tweaks until it's right.
If you want to go further, we also design matching menus, seating plans, welcome boards, vow books and tarot table name prints, for a fully cohesive tarot wedding from start to finish. Planning a wedding abroad? Our printable day-of wedding stationery gives you print-ready files to print locally.
Tarot Wedding Invitation FAQs
Is tarot appropriate for a wedding invitation?
Yes. For a wedding, tarot is about symbolism rather than fortune telling. You choose a card whose meaning fits your love story, and guests simply see a beautiful, illustrated card.
What is the best tarot card for a wedding?
The Lovers is the classic choice, as the card of union and love. The Ten of Cups (happy ever after), The Sun (joy) and The Empress and The Emperor (a life built together) are all lovely alternatives.
Do we need to know anything about tarot?
Not at all. Most of our couples simply fall for an illustration. If you'd like help choosing a card by its meaning, just ask.
Can we have more than one card?
Yes. The 3-Card Tarot Spread lets you choose three from 18 designs, and you can mix different designs across your stationery where possible.
Ready to Draw Your Card?
Browse all our tarot wedding invitations, or order a sample pack to hold a few of our real designs first. Not sure which card is yours? Tell us about your day and we'll help you choose.
Love, George & Joshua
and Trish, our Sphynx, who “helps” in the studio
