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ideas needed for my wedding invitations please

shelovestobuystuff
shelovestobuystuff Posts: 2,710 Forumite
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edited 15 April 2009 at 10:06AM in Weddings & anniversaries
I have decided I don,t like the wedding invitation and other blanks I have bought:o and am going to start from scratch and make them myself.

I fancy using fabric so to get the invitations to match the wedding colours I will use the deep plum silk used for my dress :cool: and can use some little jewels,beads and purple pearls that sil is using for my wedding jewellery.

I want to send the invites with other info such as accomodation info and reply cards too to so basically I am looking for ideas for a pocket folder type invitation.

I could use white watercolour paper or starched linen for the insets.
Need ideas of how to put it all together now that I have the fabric,pearls etc .
"Reaching out to touch the stars dont forget the flowers at your feet".

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  • floss2
    floss2 Posts: 8,030 Forumite
    We recently received an invite that was made of ivory card, opened down the centre like a "u" with each "flap" being half the width of the "bottom" and was tied with black ribbon (colours for the day). Inside was the printed insert. I guess you could use a similar idea for your folders......
  • Hi there, i bought card blanks with envelopes fom Ebay for £3.50ish for 50, and also some hammered ivory inserts to go through the printer. I downloaded a font from the net for free which was Scriptina. I found a template for the inserts which made it heaps easier to print out. For the decoration I went to the photo shop and got 50 copies of a red rose with a black and white background printed on glossy photo paper, I think it cost about £7, but you could do this online really cheaply if you do a search on MSE for free/cheap photo printing. I then bought some stick on diamantes and put 3 on the bottom corner under the photo. If you want any info please feel free to pm me. I am chuffed with mine and do think they are more special handmade.

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  • you could make little bags for the invitations to go in, like large version of favour bags, then you could make matching favour bags!
  • rinroo
    rinroo Posts: 952 Forumite
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    I found these, i'm sure you'd be able to fiddle about to make a template to make your own folder Clicky then you would be able to add everything you wanted to include
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