Wedding invitations DIY

skapegoat

Hello everyone,

I am currnetly looking at wedding invitation options on a BUDGET!:eek:
My Fiancee wants to make everything from scratch but I have been warned from friends that this can be hell and end up costing alot in the end.

After looking at getting invitations made or buying pre-made ones we decided it was way to expensive.:(

I am currently looking at this kit and wondering has anyone used this?
It seems well priced and not too fussy, I think it will take the hassle out of a Complete DIY job.

http://www.buypaper.ie/?product=1350748164819

Any Thoughts and opinions welcome?:)

barbiegirl

We bought good quality paper and envelopes, a plastic guillotine, some nice paper flowers and a gold marker. We then designed the invites in word, 4 to an A4 page, agreed the wording, tested them on normal paper and printed them on the good paper with a decent colour printer. Cut them to size using the guillotine, wrote in the names, we would have printed them if we wanted, stuck on the flowers, popped them in the envelopes and all good. I think the whole thing for about 120 invites cost us about €90. Everyone loved them. They didn't take long and cost a lot less than what we were seeing elsewhere.

Glitter

We did ours on zazzle.co.uk and have got loads of compliments on them.

We got 70 day invite cards & rsvp cards and 40 evening invite cards + envelopes for all for about €237.00 all in.

The kit above seems a good price for a small run but I notice it only has the fixings for 50 day invites - how many are you having to your day?

Sleepy

Just sent ours out yesterday

We bought some cheap dark card, some good quality marbled card and cheap cream card, used Word and printed 4 invites across a landscape on the good quality card, guilotined them and the dark card to make a two layered invite, decorated these with little stick on pearls and paper sunflowers (the wedding theme) which we got on eBay, printed our additional info on the cream card and folded that around each invite with a wax seal (again bought the wax and stamper on eBay). We then printed a graphic on the side of standard cheap 'DL' envelopes (colour matching ones would have added another €70 - €80 to the cost!) and used them to send the invites. So the invites themselves looked a little like this:



We used those houses that the families tend to gather in as drop off points for a good few invites and hand delivered others to those we were going to see over the weekend anyway to keep the postage costs down. Didn't bother with RSVP cards as we've the wedding site, our phone no's, wedding email address and website details on the invites and it doesn't seem to matter what you do: you'll always end up chasing people.

All in, we spent just under €150 on materials, glue, stamps et all and another 15 on a cheap guillotine we'll probably bung up on adverts after the wedding for about 130 invites. We've plenty of materials left over to make the evening invites with and will be using some of the card to make our table numbers and table escort cards too.

Time wise, we did it over the last couple of months, spending a few hours at it about one night a week/fortnight whilst watching the telly. They're probably not quite up to the same standard a pro with access to a laser guillotine would get but it'd be hard to tell whether they were pro or DIY if you were just looking at the one you were sent.

It was hours and hours of work but worth it in the end because we got something unique for our wedding, that looks really, really close to pro standard and that cost about a third of what they'd have cost us if we'd gotten them made. And that €200 - €300 we saved is going into the wine budget!

skapegoat

Aproximatley 100 Guests, mostly couples and families so Alot of double invites.
You can also request extra if needed and they are Irish.
I think Im going to order them once I get permission off the boss.:D

unfortunately 237e Is above Budget and We both work alot so getting time to do them from scratch isnt going to happen even if that cost less than 100e.

Some of the quotes for invitatipns are nuts, even online we have been quoted 280e to 890e its madness really.

I will report back when I recieve the pack.
I hope Its good Quality for 159e.

John Mason

I designed mine on word and bought 100 cards and envelopes, printed it out myself and it cost me €10.50.

It's very easy to DIY them and a whole of lot cheaper

Gatica

160 euro doesn't seem bad for that many invites. Our invitation paper and ribbon cost us about 130 Euro for 70 of them. Got them on congratulations.ie.

I spent extra on a guillotine, cutting mat and some flower shape punches. We didn't end up using those for the invites but I did make place-cards with them. The additional spend was 140! It kinda got out of control cos I bought those things gradually...

TAPA2012

irishbird wrote: »

I designed mine on word and bought 100 cards and envelopes, printed it out myself and it cost me €10.50.

It's very easy to DIY them and a whole of lot cheaper

irishbird could you advise me on where you got your cards/envelopes? looking around for the cheapest price also trying to mine on a budget!

John Mason

TAPA2012 wrote: »

irishbird could you advise me on where you got your cards/envelopes? looking around for the cheapest price also trying to mine on a budget!

i bought them in inspiring ideas in blanch. they also have them in the art and hobby shops but they are cheaper in inspiring ideas

Kimia

Dear god, $160 for invites!! I spent about $50 on mine. I designed them myself and printed them on vistaprint. Check it out there!

evilmonkee

irishbird wrote: »

i bought them in inspiring ideas in blanch. they also have them in the art and hobby shops but they are cheaper in inspiring ideas

Inspiring ideas have an online shop too... http://www.inspiringideas.com/

If you are out in Blanch, have a look in Mr. Price in the main centre (its a big pound shop) they may have blank cards & envelopes... No harm to check if you're out that direction.

Also, I would recomend checking any pound shop such as Dealz (there is also one of these in Blanch) , Euro2 etc. they will often have blank cards + envelopes for cheap.

One word of advice is that if you are buying in a pound shop, make sure that you buy enough the first time. Unlike craft stores, a pound shop may not get the same stock in again.

Sleepy

Mr Price is where we got most of our card and I think we bought the envelopes in Dealz.