wedding invitation help

fannieannie

hi would anyone have made their own invites please let me know how much it all cost them in the end
about 100 guests coming very very low budget for wedding as its in the next 3months just decided 2 weeks ago to get married due to health issues.

rmnrgn

I got married 5 years ago. On asking around I was foolish enough to say that I was looking for wedding invitations and the quotes were in the hundreds! (I was looking for 100 gilt edge cards)
So I designed the invite myself on the computer and again rang for quotes but omitted the wedding bit, saying I was looking for party invites instead. Quotes were low and I got them done for 70 euro. I did get dirty looks when I went in to collect them but the money is in my pocket.
Congrats and best of luck!

Sunny Dayz

try diywedding.ie - they have lots of packs and templates to use.

Personally I bought blank cards and envelopes, coloured card and stick on wedding images from ebay. and put cards together that we. Quite time consuming so be prepared for that or draft a few people to help.

smokin ace

fannieannie wrote: »

hi would anyone have made their own invites please let me know how much it all cost them in the end
about 100 guests coming very very low budget for wedding as its in the next 3months just decided 2 weeks ago to get married due to health issues.

we are getting married in 3 weeks and we made our own evening invitation cards and they turned out lovely we got a pack of 100 A6 pearlescent shimmering cards and envelopes for around €14 and with only a few adjustments they could be used as day invites what part of the country are you in because if your close enough to me maybe i can help

Heineken Helen

Sunny Dayz wrote: »

try diywedding.ie - they have lots of packs and templates to use.

Personally I bought blank cards and envelopes, coloured card and stick on wedding images from ebay. and put cards together that we. Quite time consuming so be prepared for that or draft a few people to help.

Absolutely... it took us a long long long time to do... took himself a full couple of days to design the thing (and he used to be a graphic designer)... then another day shopping to get all the materials, then about a week of a couple of hours each evening cutting card and ribbons and sticking stuff with some help from friends. All in all it still cost over £100 . It really was a right pain in the arse and, if we'd to do it again, I'd pay for somebody to do them but have some say in the design.

watna

I'm making our own but tbh, if I was getting married in 3 months I would just design something myself on the computer (if you're computer savvy even MS word or Powerpoint can be used to make nice invites) and then get them printed from a print company. I'm happy to make ours because I have loads of time and because I enjoy that kind of thing but if you can take some of the pressure off I would. If you design them yourself and as another poster said, don't tell the print company you want wedding invites but that you want to get cards that's you've designed printed it probaly wouldn't cost too much.

All the bits to make ours cost about $150 (about e80). I've already bought folded card, envelopes, a stencil thing, fancy paper to print the wording on, a glue gun, ribbon and flax for the front of the invites. I've only made a prototype so far, I'm going to make them over Christmas so I'm now sure how long it will take. I have a about 40/45 to make so not too bad.

BC

We did about 90 invitations ourselves. It cost about 100 euro but took a lot of time. We also spent another 20 or 30 euro on various samples to try things out. It took 7 or 8 attempts before we actually got it right. That doesn't include stamps obviously as you have to pay for those regardless of whether you buy or DIY invitations.

You can also buy blank invitation cards in easons or somewhere like that and just handwrite the details if you want.

Shivers26

Did you look on vistaprint? If you sign up for their special offers emails you can get a good bit off.

I think I paid €65 in total for 90 full colour day invitations, 90 RSVP cards, envelope seals & return address labels. I think I got an email with 30% off everything so snapped that up.