Homemade Invitations & Mass Booklets

themullet

I was just wondering if someone might be able to help me. Myself and my fiancee want to try to save money on our wedding by doing our own invitations and mass booklets. I would love to hear from anyone who has made their own and has any advice or who maybe has a document template for doing so on the computer. Thanks in advance

littlejp

I helped my sister make her's for her wedding. Mostly with the actual printing. She did the crafty parts of sticking, tieing ribbon etc.
She ordered all the stuff from Daintree Paper. The printing was easy enough as they provide templates for you.
My sister was surprised with herself after making them. Lots of people couldn't believe that they were made by her.

barbiegirl

Hi Themullet
We got ours from www.diywedding.ie an Irish company and the quality was fantastic. If I remember right, the save the date cards, 100 with envelopes, then invitations with rsvp cards both with envelopes again we ordered I think 100 maybe 80, but the overall total was about €250.00, including all the decorative bits. But the plain square invite, with the lovely scalloped were similar to this one and looked very classey. http://www.diywedding.ie/candypress/scripts/prodView.asp?idproduct=1499

The mass booklets we bough the paper and printed outselves. Though we only did scrolls rather than full booklets and everyone loved them.

KazDub

Daintree all the way. We made our invites a few years ago with supplies we bought from them. My friend recently took my advice and had a look there with her fiance and they've just done their invites and RSVPs using Daintree. The staff also provide amazing help and suggestions too, as well as helping to save an absolute bundle. You can honestly make invites that look as good as (if not better than) professionally made and ordered ones.

caprilicious

I made our invites using stuff from diyweddings.ie & all the guests have commented on how nice & unusal they were.
They worked out quite cheap too which was a bonus

For the afters invites & rsvp's I bought them on vistaprint.ie they look v professional, I'm going to use them for the Thank You cards
Oh I also got address labels for the envelopes there too & they're really nice

Ashlynn

Hi iam making my own both wedding mass booklet & invites if you google getting married booklet it will bring you into a site it is really easy to use you will have to put in your names & bridesmaids, priest etc then its a matter of ticking the box's for your choice in different reading, download it in the pdf version for some reason it doesn't show up all bridesmaid & groomsmens names if you download it in word, you then go to print & tick booklet ( I forgot to do this first & was wondering why it was printing all over the place) it prints everything out in order its looks mixed up but its not when you staple them together the pages are in order cause with the first page on one half you will also have the last page on the other half if you know what I mean. I bought a reem of ivory A4 paper in Easons for €9.99 for 500 pages, gonna print a sketch of our church on the front found one on the internet.

As for the invites I bought ivory plan invites in The Rathdowney Outlet Centre in the Bookshop 5x7 invites 2 packs of 50 so a 100 invites for €12 iam gonna get my sister in law who is good at art to draw a cool bride & groom (I have a few samples on my computer pm me your e-mail if you want me to send them on) gonna scan & copy onto invites & where the brides bouquet is im gonna thread a ribbon through to match the bridesmaids dresses and print the usual wording on the inside ( I already done a trial run & it prints on them perfect. They also sell smaller invites in the 4x6 size thinking of getting these for the rsvp's there the same price. Iam also gonna buy wax & a seal for the envelopes to posh them up a bit seen them in the Art & Hobby shop but there very dear there they have the same ones on ebay for a fraction of the price. Sorry for the long post if you have any questions just ask I definatly recommend doing them yourself the first is the hardest but once that is done it is only a matter of printing them & you will save a fortune.

Emerald Lass

Ashlynn wrote: »

Hi iam making my own both wedding mass booklet & invites if you google getting married booklet it will bring you into a site it is really easy to use you will have to put in your names & bridesmaids, priest etc then its a matter of ticking the box's for your choice in different reading

Hi, does anyone have a similar site for a civil ceremony - i.e no religious content?

Ashlynn

I just pm'ed you

AnnieB82

Hi there, could I have inormation regarding a site that creates a booklet for a civil ceremony?

Thank you!

Ashlynn

Just pm'ed you AnnieB82

littlejp

Ashlynn wrote: »

Just pm'ed you AnnieB82

Could I get that too please?

Terpsichore

Regarding the invitations, we got a sample from one of the wedding fairs. It's one that folds, so the card is also the envelop in the traditional style.
I used the sample as a guide to draw 4 invite cards out of one A3 Canford card, cut them and used the iron to mark the folds nicely.
I used a nice pinstripe paper and Word to work out the inside message. I also invested EUR18.00 in a small paper guillotine in Eason.
A bit of glue.
A wax seal to close it at the back.
Nice wedding stamps ordered from the Post office online.
I don't think that people are really into sending back an RSVP card that would cost you time and money to make. Don't bother and give an email address and phone numbers for the RSVP. We sent some 80 invitations and maybe only 4 rsvp cards came back by post.
Use a callygraphy fountain pen to write the address.
Et voilá!
It's actually lovely to make together as a couple's project.

texanman

If you need a template just send me a mail via the link below and I can send you a mass booklet.

RC_Galway

www.gettingmarried.ie is excellent. You choose what readings/prayers/vows you want and the site creates the booklet as a Word and PDF files.

Psychic Lady

Hi,

I made my invites from scratch. i bought the card and paper and decorations from a craft shop nearby stuck them all on and printed the inserts with matching paper i made 150 for €110. I got my mass booklets printed from a voluntary organisation at €1 a booklet. you can do up a template on the Accord website and it sets out the whole mass for you. I did it all up and got the community office to print and design them for me.