Wedding invitations can be functional, creative and stylish while keeping your wallet happy. Planning a wedding can be stressful enough without always having to worry about going over your budget. You can send out upscale invitations without sacrificing quality. Follow these tips to invite guests to your wedding using these resourceful, inexpensive options:
1. Compare products and pricing.
Do some research and check around various stationary specialty shops, office supply stores, discount chains, online retailers, and arts and crafts emporiums. Get an eye for what is available and at what cost. Watch out for sales. Take down notes and gather samples of the ones that stand out to you. There are many options, and some that seem too far out of your budget range may not be by utilizing similar alternatives that are cheaper.
2. Make them yourself.
You can select from different card stocks and choose to print them at home yourself, or take them to a print shop. Several stores offer an assortment of simple do-it-yourself invitation kits to help save you time and money. If you don't feel particularly crafty, enlist the aid of friends and family members with a lot of creative juices pumping through their veins.
3. Explore a variety of printing methods.
Engraved wedding invitations are an elegant thing of formal beauty. Having your invitations engraved is also the most costly printing choice. Thermographic printing will result in a similar looking raised font but will be less expensive than engraving. The least pricey option would be a more informal laser printing technique. Your invitations will still look sharp and stylish enough to wow your would-be guests while saving you quite a bit of money.
4. Consider using online invites.
If you already have a wedding site online, think of adding your invitations and RSVP as part of your website design. Keep track of your guest list online to save money and some trees. There are also sites online dedicated to providing ample design choices for those that don't feel they have enough creative flair to produce their own online invitations.
5. Less saves you more.
Leave out all those extras such as the blotter paper, double envelopes, separate reception cards, and perhaps even the RSVP card. Each one adds to the cost of purchasing, printing and postage. Incorporate your reception information at the end of your invites, and include a note to guests to RSVP through email or your personal wedding website. Be sure to use invitations that fit in standard-sized envelopes too. Odd shapes, sizes, bulkiness and uneven surfaces will all cost you more to mail.
6. Analyze, check and correct.
After spending the time to find and design your perfect wedding invitations, be sure to proofread many times over. Ask others to proofread for you as well. It will save you from unnecessary frustrations and ill-spent money if you don't have to send them back to be reprinted.
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