Making own invite supplies

mummy1982

Hi all, need some help!!! Have just tarted planning our wedding for next year and I am looking to make my own invites. Have been trying to price up supplies and its working out very expensive! Can anyone point me in the right direction as to where I can get supplies cheap? I'm looking for square wallet style blanks plus extras to pretty them up. Thanks all x

nuatha

mummy1982 wrote: »

Hi all, need some help!!! Have just tarted planning our wedding for next year and I am looking to make my own invites. Have been trying to price up supplies and its working out very expensive! Can anyone point me in the right direction as to where I can get supplies cheap? I'm looking for square wallet style blanks plus extras to pretty them up. Thanks all x

We went for a pocketfold style invite. Found a local craft shop doing a 300gsm card in a forest green (originally looked for sage green, until we saw this) A4 for 10p per sheet. They actually charged £8 for 100 sheets. Inserts were a cream card 160gsm £4.50 for 100 sheets, cream envelopes were £4.95 for 100 from ebay. We wanted things fairly simple but bought gold on green triskellions (its a celtic knot which seems to keep turning up in our wedding preps and will form the pattern in our rings) These have been used with a card "ribbon" (actually an off cut from the inserts) to act as a seal on the invitation. Our invites worked out at about 30p each by doing them ourselves.
We didn't include the cost of a guillotine or inkjet printer since we already had those, but did include a set of inkjet cartrides). A card folding jig and boning tool might have speeded things up a little. Overall it took about three evenings to print and assemble everything. (The design of the inserts and invitation took several weeks last summer until we had exactly what we wanted, and was done in Adobe Indesign, but there are free decent layout and DTP programs around. -I happen to use Indesign for work)

Its certainly doable, particularly if you are into crafts/card making. We could have bought the blank pocketfolds at around £1 each, but it is fairly simple to make your own. Beware of embellishments that add a lot of height to the card, these may push your postage charges up significantly and may mean your invite is more likely to be damaged in the post.
HTH

Twod

We're making out own ones too. Worked out too expensive to to do the pocketfold invites, and then found by chance a design we really liked on blank paper, have shrunk it down and all parts of the invite (invite, directions, rsvp card) are all printed from one sheet of a4. 150 sheets of card cost us just under £8 from ebay, plus the sparkly establishments for a couple quid. Splashed out on a heart shaped punch for £5 from amazon.

The total cost for ours is around £25 - invites (100), embellishments, punch, coloured card bits, envelopes, name place blanks, menus, table numbers. Everything will match

Do need to buy a new ink cartridge though which will put up the price, but its something that is already needed