If you are designing your own invitations, announcements, place cards, programs, or thank you cards, chances are, you will need wedding clip art. Simply typing the phrase “wedding clip art” into your favorite search engine will bring you a plethora of sites. However, once you start looking through these wedding clip art sites, you will start to see a trend. Some are not free, and some really don’t have any wedding clip art, they are just doing whatever they can to drive traffic to their site!

You can save yourself a lot of time and frustration if you can find a wedding clip art CD-Rom at a local retailer. However, that’s more money spent, isn’t it? There IS free wedding clip art out there, it just takes a little bit of internet savvy to find. This article can help you to refine these results.

First and foremost, refine your search. You want free clip art don’t you? If you are looking for a particular graphic, say wedding bells, then you should add that to your search. Instead of simply typing “wedding clip art” it might be better to try searching for “free wedding clip art bells.” Try using the advanced search feature, if your favorite search engine has one. Usually there will be a place where you can tell the search engine to find ALL words, rather than any words. If keyword phrases are hard for you to come up with, try one of the search engines that allows users to simply type in a plain language question, like “where can I find free wedding clip art?”

One thing that is a good idea to have on your computer is some sort of adware and spyware detection software, as well as a pop up blocker. You will unfortunately find that many free wedding clip art sites will have pop-ups galore, and may even install adware and spyware on your system. These types of programs can slow your system down considerably, so try and keep them off your system by using detection and removal software.