Making Your Own Wedding Invitations

*G*_2

Hi,

I'm going to be making my own wedding invitations and wondered if anyone knew of any good free design software, or where I can get fonts & designs?

I have a really old computer (10 years plus) with Word on and a laptop with just Open Office.

Any tips would be appreciated :-)

Maysie

hi, here's what we did :

I bought packs of card from sainsburys in the sale awhile back. Good quality card normally £5.99 for 100 A4 sheets i got for £1.99. Always have you eyes peeled in every shop for those sale bargains. We made our own invites with bradley font and
http://www.loveandlavender.com/downloads/garden-rose/ this little freebie. We used powerpoint and a copy and paste from word i think in the end. I just added in a rainbow sparkle diamante to each of the flower centres from ebay so our invites barely cost anything in the end. We decided a5 size so 2 on each a4 print and 4 rvsp's a sheet

quite plan compared to some i know but i felt ribbon would be fiddly and hard to get them all exactly right.

Idiophreak

We just did ours in word, got some nice card from hobbycraft, put it on a high print setting, then cracked out the mailmerge...Only took a few hours to print them all and they looked great...on the simpler side, maybe, but did the job perfectly well. See if I can find a picture later.

Cooliogti

You can download a lot of fonts from fonts2u.com. I've downloaded an app so that if I see a font I like when I'm out and about I can take a photo of it (or a screenshot if it's online anyway) and it will tell me what font it is, and suggest similar fonts. That way if the font you wanted is one that is copyrighted (and you must pay to get it) you may be able to get a free looky-likey.

I'm using a combination of photoshop elements (OH got it to fiddle with photos) and a program called GIMP. it's very similar to photoshop but free. I find them both very easy to use, but then I did do a couple of weeks on photoshop in uni years ago...

Do you know I hadn't even thought of using mail merge in word! I was racking my brains wondering how to get everyone's names on the invites without actually having to write them in. D'oh!! Thank you idiophreak I think you've just saved my sanity as I'll be doing them in a week or two (hopefully, if I can pin OH down to finalise the guest list:mad:)

Oh, and my cards are all coming from eBay, 6inch square, plain white, simply printed on. No embellishments like ribbons or anything as this may make them too fat to fit through the cheapest postage size.

HTH
Vici

Idiophreak

Cooliogti wrote: »

Do you know I hadn't even thought of using mail merge in word! I was racking my brains wondering how to get everyone's names on the invites without actually having to write them in. D'oh!! Thank you idiophreak

So glad we did it - we'd never had the database set up until we did the wedding invites..Now we have it, it really takes the sting out of doing the Christmas cards each year...the envelopes were always the worst bit before, now they're all done in 5 minutes flat

Pinzy

We got green card from ebay, some white "wedding invitation" lettering online, and tied it shut with white organza ribbon (bought from Hobbycraft before we found the much cheaper ribbon stall on the market!). On the inside was paper, on the left a wedding pic of Barbie & Ken, on the right invite details in Edwardian Script from Word. Oh and they were also stamped with white horseshoes on the front (used the same stamp for envelopes, and had a heart shaped hole punch type thing punched on the back (both from hobbycraft).

[IMG]http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/<a href=http://s316.photobucket.com/user/Roccopark/media/Wedding/DSC_0516.jpg.html target=_blank rel=nofollow>[/img]

Fiddly, but a friend thought they'd been done professionally! *smug face*

aed09

Hello,

I have been lurking for a while (I am getting married in March) but this is my first post. I found a great site through pinterest (am addicted!) where you can edit a whole range of different printable invitations online so you don't need to download anything - you chose colours and text etc, and it magically produces the finished document for you to print. I don't think I can post a link, put if you do an internet search for 'wedding chicks printable invitation suite' I think it should come up. My problem is that I can't choose which to go for! Maybe the bunting

Hope this helps.

Cooliogti

Pinzy they do look really nice - well done you

Tbh idiophreak I've given up on sending Christmas and birthday cards. I use an email marketing program called mailchimp, design a Christmas card email (there are loads of free templates) and bang, out it goes a few days before crimbo.

Use it for birthdays too

Free if you have under 2000 email addresses

Cooliogti

And I'll be using mailchimp for most of my save the dates too. Some of our guests don't have email addresses though so I will be printing a few of them.

eleanora_

We did ours with a couple of free fonts from https://www.dafont.com and a relatively old edition of Photoshop, although we could have done it in Word. We then bought some lovely paper from a local art supplies shop, and printed them up.

Here's one of ours (excuse the crap quality - picture from my phone):



We were really pleased with how they came out