How did you make your wedding invitations?

I started with DIY wedding invitations from Target. I found the ones I liked at Target and then I searched for them on ebay and craigslist. I was able to get 150 blank invites/envelopes and 150 blank RSVP cards/envelopes for about $55. On the box, there's a website you can go to that lets you create the invite online and print it out on your home computer. http://sites.target.com/site/en/spot/page.jsp?title=mystationery They also have them at Michaels - again, there's a website on the box where you can use an online template to design the invite. http://www.gartnerstudios.com/ I took apart the plain envelopes from the DIY kit and lined them with a gorgeous deep red paper. Instead of paying to have our return address printed on the back - I went to ebay and found a vendor that personalizes stamps with the address. Then I just used the stamp to put our return address on the envelope and to put our address on the RSVP envelope that comes back to us. Hope that helps!

well I got my kit from this website http://www.invitationpaper.com/flanfranco.html I didn't want to deal with cutting paper because i felt if i did that the invitations would look cheap and definitely homemade. The kit came with the rsvp cards and i bought a second set for the reception info. Like everybody else said the hardest part is trying to get the wording and aligning the wording into the paper so it could look perfect.I got my wording from this website even though what i did was combine a few of them together and it work perfectly http://www.invitationconsultants.com/%5Csw-wedding.aspx Trying to get the aligning is dificult and you do use alot of paper trying to finally find the perfect alignment. But after is said and done they come out beautiful and you do it right nobody will now whether they were homemade or not. good luck

For my wedding invitations, my mom and I printed them off ourselves. I got my invitations and response cards from www.paperdirect.com and I thought that they were very reasonably priced and they were good quality. My mom had already done do it yourself invitations before so I got lucky there. She did all the measuring/templates on Microsoft Publisher to make sure they printed out right. Also a word of advice is to print out a test page before you print out on the inviation paper so you can make sure your measurements are correct. I found my wedding invitation and response card wording on www.verseit.com and I thought that was a lifesaver. Good luck!

I use Microsoft publisher for programs and invitations. There are a lot of free templates online. I buy the paper I need from office supply stores. They sell a variety of fancy invitation paper and envelopes, as well as multiple colors of cardstock and vellum. I use ribbon sometimes to tie the pages together or as an accent. You can also incorporate a picture in some of the templates. I then take the finished product to the office store or copy shop and they can print them on the paper you want right from a disk or flash drive. Craft stores have invitation supplies and kits too. You can just print the response cards from Microsoft word on cardstock using a business card template and cut them out. You can do your placecards this way too. Good luck!

I got my invites from The Flower Factory. 25 invites were in a box, and we paid about $12 a box. So, we spent $36 on invites that would have cost us about $400 for the ones we liked in a catalog. I also got a hole punch and punched two holes on the top of the invite and tied a red ribbon through them. That was my own idea since our colors were black, white, and red. The box came with about 10 different invite wordings to use. I just picked one of them. And the response cards were in the packet, too. I just found a little icon from my computer with a champagne bottle on it and put it on the card with the normal "Please respond by such-and-such date" and had the information for them to fill out.

When I was getting married, I struggled with the wording for the wedding announcements. My future husband had some severe family issues that made the traditional wording out of the question. We finally decided to just include our names and the information on the wedding day so no ones feeling would get hurt. Happy that hurdle was over, I didn’t realize I was going to have the same issues with the wedding invitations until the time came to order them. We had picked out gorgeous white rose wedding invitations, but we were very limited in the wording we could choose from, which turned out to be a huge problem. I really loved those invitations but my fiancé was more important to me, so we continued looking.

I googled, and found lots of sites that were helpful. I decided that I wanted A4 paper in a tri fold, which can be mailed in standard size envelopes so there was no additional postage. Like so https://factorycard.gartnerstudios.com/images/products/GSI_97.jpg I researched how it should be worded, found a nice graphic to go with a wine country wedding, and found a quote that we liked. My husband formatted it all, with my help and we tested it on a few different samples of paper. Once we had it right, we printed them off and posted them.

I am gathering ideas now to make my own. I am planning on making a half page invite. Using a wedding color as the back sheet then printing the actual invitation information onto white paper.. cutting that out with different kinds of pinking shears, then attaching the 2 with ribbon. You can get postcards that you can print on your computer. You can just throw them in with the invitation and don't have to worry about another sized envelope. It will save you money on postage! I am thinking about going to staples or Michael's to get most of my supplies. The postcards you can even get at walmart and are inexpensive.

www.americanwedlock.com has amazing invites, they send you all the items you need and you put them together yourself