Buy or make our own wedding invitations?

Make them, it is a lot cheaper plus you can personalize it a bit more then with the standard ones sent out. My cousin and his wife(fiancee then) made their wedding invitation and they came out really beautiful.

My wife made all our invites by herself, and we got so many compliments on them also it will save you a crap load of money.

Absolutley you should make them. It's the biggest family event, that you want to share with the people you love most, so begin this with invitations with a personal touch, rather than a rather cold invitation that isn't your words. The best invitation i ever saw was a photograph. The person had written the details on a piece of paper, which was then placed in sand, and taken in a photo. Looks simply awesome, and so unique. Maybe if you wanted to follow up this idea you can get something more romantic ie: red paper, or imposed over a couple photo or something similar. Even if you don't do this, your guests will appreciate the time and effort you have put into the invites, and you will save yourself money - a win win situation Good luck.

The beauty of making your own wedding invitations is that you can make them exactly how you want them. We looked at both options and if we had them made we couldn't get anything close enough to what we wanted (eg we had a frangipani them and the professional invitations all had the flowers with pink paper etc but we wanted blue). We also essentially used the same components as the wedding invitations to make our thank you cards, place cards, order of service booklet, table labels and menus. Overall, we probably spent about half of what we would have paid on getting them all made and we were able to make everything just how we wanted. It's quite a fun process to make them and they have that personal touch. If home-made ones are done well, sometimes you can't even tell that they are not professional ones. If you do decide to make them, I would recommend getting your hands on a guillotine to make cutting easier. If you can't borrow one of someone, you can buy them from some stationery shops. They aren't too expensive and they will save you lots of time in comparison to scissors.

I was going to make my own, spend about 200. But I found some really cool ones at a paper store and ended up spending 900 dollars on custom made ones. For a wedding gift someone framed it. It was an eye popper and totally worth the extra splurge. Nobody, I mean nobody will ever have invitations even similar to mine! My advice is to make your own if you have the time to do it. It is a lot of work, more than you think. (I had to make the church info ones and they were very very detailed, up til 4 in the morning one night!) If you do not have the money then don't go looking at the ones in the stores. You will find something you like and end up spending 900 dollars like I did!

I'd say make them, you can have what you want then. My partner and I are in the process of making ours at the moment. We spent ages looking at different styles on line, in magazines and shops but did not find one perfectly suited to us. We found 3 or 4 different invites we liked, but they were not right. So we purchased some various types and colours of paper and findings and started playing around. So far, we have spent less than $40 Aus to make 100 invitations. Something similar in the shops would have been over $600. We will have leftovers so we are starting to plan our thank you notes and name cards for seating arrangements. Have fun with it.

Making them is a lot cheaper. You just have to find the kind of paper you want them printed on and after that it is all pretty easy. We made our own and it only cost us $50 to make around 150 invitations. Good luck!

We ordered our online. We also ordered the napkins and matchbooks online too. If you plan to make them Michael's craft store has the kits reasonably priced.

Make them yourself! I did and everyone had so many compliments on them. I spent a total of $75 dollars on mine, for 150 people. Good Luck and Congrats!