Making Our Own Wedding Invitations – Not All That Difficult And Time-Consuming

Posted by Pamela on Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008 in Pamela & Brian

Our wedding invitation with our wedding rings I used to work at Hallmark, and we had those big binders under the counter from invitation companies. When there were no customers in the store, I would go through the binders to look at designs that I liked. I also familiarized myself with the prices listed in the back – Yikes!

Similar to my wedding flowers experience, I decided to try my hand at making wedding invitations myself. It seemed easy enough. I knew that large retailers and craft stores carry blank invitation paper, and we went to a craft store. I was able to use some coupons that my mom had, and it was easy to pick out a design that Brian and I both liked. It was very simple – just white with a border design.

Even though we had over three hundred guests, that only worked out to be about one hundred and fifty invitations. So we got a few boxes of blank invitations, plus another one, just in case! Each box came with the invites, blank response cards, invitation envelopes, response card envelopes, and a few templates to use for invitation wording.

I hadn’t realized there were so many different ways to appropriately word wedding invitations, depending on who was hosting the wedding and other various situations such as deceased or divorced parents.

I wanted to use a laser printer for the invitations, since they produce a better quality page than inkjet printers. Our best man had a laser printer, so we provided the ink cartridges and spent a Sunday afternoon printing our wedding invitations.

We chose a font and color that we liked, and then printed a couple test invitations to make sure everything was aligned. Then we set the printer up for the rest of the invitations and checked on them periodically to make sure they were still coming out to our liking. We followed the same procedure with our response cards.

For the envelopes, we got clear address labels and printed all of the addresses from our guests on list. We also printed our return address for the response cards. We also included maps and directions to the hall and the church, as well as hotel reservation information.

We then took one completed invitation with all of its contents to the post office to see how many stamps we would need to send it. We purchased all of the necessary stamps, and that was it! We sent them on their way.

It would have been easier to pay someone else to do our wedding invitations, but the process of creating our own wedding invitations wasn’t all that difficult. And it didn’t take up too much of our time, especially since my mom helped to stuff all of the envelopes!



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