Wedding Invitations

Milly33 · 10-04-2015 11:50AM

Have to say women do pay attention, men don't. Id say the only way a man would pay attention to an invite and keep it would be if it arrived in a subaru or tank something like that

An Bhanríon · 10-04-2015 12:16PM

Mine all end up on the mantelpiece from the time they arrive to the date of the wedding. Then they go into my memory box. Some of us do take notice! I love my collection of wedding invitations...

Uno my Uno. · 10-04-2015 12:30PM

Milly33 wrote: »

Have to say women do pay attention, men don't. Id say the only way a man would pay attention to an invite and keep it would be if it arrived in a subaru or tank something like that

I'm a man and I notice! and I picked ours and I wrote and laid out the text!

BnB · 10-04-2015 12:30PM

donkeyoaty0099 wrote: »

Never get the obsession with super fancy wedding invites. It arrives, I check the time and date, put the details in my phone and then bin the invitation. Sits in my house for all of about 15 minutes (or however long it takes me to get to the post in the evening.)

Couldn't agree more. Mother of God, the poor fella who's wife talked him into paying €9 a pop - What were they thinking...????

It comes in the post - You look at it for 5 seconds and throw it somewhere - Then the night before the wedding you spend half an hour looking for it to find out what time the church is on at. You fail, and text someone to find out. And it turns up 4 years later when you are trying to reach a Thomas the Tank Engine that is stuck under the fridge.

Of course your wedding day is special and you want it to be memorable for you and your guests. But if you are going to spend time and money, spend it on something that will actually make a difference to you or your guests like a nice guna, food & wine, a good band, a nice honeymoon....etc.. but invitations.... no one gives a toot

Milly33 · 10-04-2015 01:48PM

Uno my Uno. wrote: »

I'm a man and I notice! and I picked ours and I wrote and laid out the text!

Ah but that was your own how many other wedding invites do you have collected, or taken note of. Himself done ours also and put a lot of time and effort into them but I know for a fact he wouldn't have taken notice unless it was our own

Uno my Uno. · 10-04-2015 01:55PM

Milly33 wrote: »

Ah but that was your own how many other wedding invites do you have collected, or taken note of. Himself done ours also and put a lot of time and effort into them but I know for a fact he wouldn't have taken notice unless it was our own

I keep most of them although I don't paste them into scrap books.

I was just pointing out that its not fair to paint us all with the same brush.;););)

Milly33 · 10-04-2015 05:11PM

You the Man Uno!

Toots · 10-04-2015 06:41PM

I made my own and had a theme for the invites, booklets and thankyou cards. The materials cost me about €40 at most. I got 2 boxes of cream coloured cards with envelopes, then got a couple of reams of plain A4 for the inside of the booklets, and 120 sheets of this fancy textured cream card for the booklet covers.

I used MS Publisher. When my husband proposed he did it with a bunch of roses, and there were 4 different colours. I pressed one of each colour, so for the invites I scanned each one and used it on the cover, and also on the booklets and thank you cards. The invites and thank you cards were straight forward enough. It took me a couple of tries just to make sure I put the card in the printer the right way when I was printing front and back, but Publisher pretty much guides you through it.

The mass booklets were slightly more complicated; I did an actual 'book' as in there were multiple pages, so that did take a bit of figuring out as regards print layout. What we ended up doing was getting all the pages and the cover printed out, then we roped in my hubby's sister (one of my bridesmaids) and we all sat down and had a production line going; each person grabbed the next pages as they passed the booklet along, and the last person would add the cover and then staple it. We borrowed a long arm stapler off my husband's mum, and we got them all done in one night, then had a few beers afterwards. This is how they turned out, if anyone is interested http://omg.wthax.org/7YXJSL.jpg

I really enjoy doing stuff like that, but if you aren't great with printing, or get easily frustrated then I wouldn't recommend it.

Arbiter of Good Taste · 10-04-2015 06:44PM

We went with simple invites with a celtic design. I cant remember the website, but I was very happy. Cost €110

Arbiter of Good Taste · 10-04-2015 06:46PM

Milly33 wrote: »

Have to say women do pay attention, men don't. Id say the only way a man would pay attention to an invite and keep it would be if it arrived in a subaru or tank something like that

I'm a woman and never pay attention to wedding invitations. Generally end up in the bin after the wedding

Malari · 10-04-2015 09:03PM

fits wrote: »

Well i do think you can communicate a lot about the day through the invite. We put lots of info on the back of ours. And the colours match the bridesmaid so the women know what not to wear..

Lol! I never knew I was being subtly dissuaded from wearing a certain colour based on the invite!

fits · 10-04-2015 09:08PM

Malari wrote: »

Lol! I never knew I was being subtly dissuaded from wearing a certain colour based on the invite!

There you are now. Recent news to me also but the in law women picked up on it alright.

Tarzana2 · 11-04-2015 12:49AM

fits wrote: »

Well i do think you can communicate a lot about the day through the invite. We put lots of info on the back of ours. And the colours match the bridesmaid so the women know what not to wear.

While I knew that the invites often indicate the colour of the bridesmaids dresses, I'm not keen on it being a subtle hint not to wear that colour. Many people don't buy new outfits for every wedding and I'd hate the thought of someone feeling they had to go out an buy something new to not match the bridesmaids.

Toots · 11-04-2015 01:47AM

I never knew the invites had the same colours as the bridesmaids dresses! God help my guests, they'd never have guessed lol! I don't think I'd give a crap if someone turned up in the same colour as the bridesmaids, once it wasn't the exact same dress. That happened at my SIL's wedding (the BM dresses were from Coast) and one of the cousins turned up in the exact same dress; she was mortified and luckily lived near the church, so she nipped home to change on the way to the reception.

Vojera · 11-04-2015 02:42PM

We paid about €160 for 100 invitations on pearlescent card, and stamps for them. We were very lucky in that our artist friend designed our invitations for us and then took care of all the printing for us.

I helped out a friend with a mass booklet assembly line before and I didn't want to do something similar myself, although if she hadn't left it till the night before the wedding I probably wouldn't have found it so panicky!

Tarzana2 · 11-04-2015 03:53PM

Vojera wrote: »

We paid about €160 for 100 invitations on pearlescent card, and stamps for them. We were very lucky in that our artist friend designed our invitations for us and then took care of all the printing for us.

I looove pearlescent card. My sister didn't have the invitation pearlescent but the envelopes were. Sooo pretty. Her husband's sister is an artist and made the wedding invitations for them as her wedding gift!

jimmii · 11-04-2015 03:57PM

Vojera wrote: »

We paid about €160 for 100 invitations on pearlescent card, and stamps for them. We were very lucky in that our artist friend designed our invitations for us and then took care of all the printing for us.

I helped out a friend with a mass booklet assembly line before and I didn't want to do something similar myself, although if she hadn't left it till the night before the wedding I probably wouldn't have found it so panicky!

Thats obviously super cheap for that sure the stamps would have cost €68! Getting small numbers of cards like that is quite expensive.

Toots · 11-04-2015 05:37PM

Vojera wrote: »

I helped out a friend with a mass booklet assembly line before and I didn't want to do something similar myself, although if she hadn't left it till the night before the wedding I probably wouldn't have found it so panicky!

God that sounds like a nightmare! When we did it we got a takeaway and a few beers and stuck on a film, so it was pretty relaxed. When my husband's brother got married years ago, the groom, my husband, and the two other brothers were still assembling the booklets in the car on the way to the church on the morning of the wedding!

Vojera · 12-04-2015 01:39AM

Tarzana2 wrote: »

I looove pearlescent card. My sister didn't have the invitation pearlescent but the envelopes were. Sooo pretty. Her husband's sister is an artist and made the wedding invitations for them as her wedding gift!

I know, I love it too. I would have everything in pearlescent paper if I could! It brings me back to my fancy paper collector days :pac:

jimmii wrote: »

Thats obviously super cheap for that sure the stamps would have cost €68! Getting small numbers of cards like that is quite expensive.

I think our stamps were €60 (they were 55c each at the time, plus a few European stamps) but honestly I think we probably got a good rate as our friend would have used the printer a fair bit for his work and his art. We were lucky!

Toots wrote: »

God that sounds like a nightmare! When we did it we got a takeaway and a few beers and stuck on a film, so it was pretty relaxed. When my husband's brother got married years ago, the groom, my husband, and the two other brothers were still assembling the booklets in the car on the way to the church on the morning of the wedding!

OMG at that stage I think I would just fling them in the boot and pretend there were no booklets! I wouldn't be able for that at all!

Also, good idea with the long arm stapler - we were sewing my friends ones together at 11pm and cursing every pricked finger as we went!

Gatica · 13-04-2015 10:36AM

fits wrote: »

Well i do think you can communicate a lot about the day through the invite. We put lots of info on the back of ours. And the colours match the bridesmaid so the women know what not to wear.

I would've never thought that before... We did our invites in the colour OH's favourite sports team, it wasn't anything at all like the bridesmaid's colour.
I also don't understand this seemingly prevalent attitude that you can't wear the colour of the bridesmaids or the wedding theme, etc... As long as no one else turns out wearing what could be confused as a wedding dress, I think adults should be "allowed" to wear whatever they like.
We had lots of the groom's side of the family wearing wedding colours, and to be honest it didn't bother me in the least, if anything it looks quite nice in pictures.

Neyite · 13-04-2015 11:04AM

Tarzana2 wrote: »

While I knew that the invites often indicate the colour of the bridesmaids dresses, I'm not keen on it being a subtle hint not to wear that colour. Many people don't buy new outfits for every wedding and I'd hate the thought of someone feeling they had to go out an buy something new to not match the bridesmaids.

I never got the hint vibe from an invite - I'd just see a purple* invite and think, 'oh that's probably what the bridesmaids are wearing, I'll wear my red dress instead to the wedding'. I think nearly every invite I got, the theme colour was on the invite, except one, which had a football themed invite.

I think any invite that dictates behaviour (gift expectation/contribution) or attire of your guest is possibly going to rub most people up the wrong way no matter how quaintly a couple try to word it, and best avoided unless you want your wedding to be remembered for the wrong reasons.

Milly33 · 13-04-2015 11:51AM

Just incase anyone is looking for something fun, in the an post site you can buy all sorts of stamps but they have game stamps. Just got them this morning and they look great, sonic, pacman, Mario...You can only get them 68c but must say they look great

stickybookmark · 14-04-2015 03:41PM

Vojera wrote: »

I know, I love it too. I would have everything in pearlescent paper if I could! It brings me back to my fancy paper collector days :pac:

Oh my god.....80s irish childhood flashback !!:P:P

jimmii · 14-04-2015 03:47PM

Vojera wrote: »

I think our stamps were €60 (they were 55c each at the time, plus a few European stamps) but honestly I think we probably got a good rate as our friend would have used the printer a fair bit for his work and his art. We were lucky!

Very lucky! To get 100 cards printed on thick enough card with an envelope is about 50c+vat per card so its probably 60c-70c for that sort of card. We do cards so would be in a position to that for our friends to its nice to be able to do that sort of thing! Weddings is relatively expensive though you'd be surprised how small the difference in total cost is getting 100 cards printed vs getting 1000 cards printed!

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