Make Your Own Invitation

Why Make your own invitation?

There are pro's and con's to consider if you make your own invitations for weddings and parties. It can be cheaper or it could be more expensive! You may not necessarily save money (but probably will) It all depends on whether you want simple and cheap or the ultimate in style and personalization. This could involve extra cost if you need to buy cutting equipment or even a new printer to produce better quality prints, but the chances are that the printer you have will do just fine. Any additional equipment or card that you buy and don't use may seem to be a waste, but you also need to think whether you will have other projects later to share the cost. I am pretty sure you will once you have had a go and find out how much fun it can be. If you have priced up the factory produced cards even these expenses do not seem so great. On the plus side what you can get is unique and in a style to suit you. You can apply the same techniques to invitations, reply slips and individual greetings cards which people will really appreciate receiving.

Make your own invitation from blanks

There are several different ways to make your own invitations and it depends on just how much you want to do yourself. You can buy the cards ready-made and make them more unique by adding embellishments like ribbons and bows or sequins yourself.

If you want a more personalised wording you could buy the cards as blanks (with a ready printed outer) and add your own words by printing them yourself. This will also allow you to buy the envelopes, and perhaps the reply cards, at the same time.

These are the simplest ways of creating unique invitations and cards but you are still limited by what is available. The best way to ensure that your invitations are unique and personal to you is to create your own invitations from scratch.

Make your own invitation on-line.

If you do not want to dive in and produce a masterpiece from scratch then another way of getting more unique invites and cards is to visit one of the websites which give you a choice of blank cards and allow you to customise the wording or even to upload a photo to use in the design. These are then printed off professionally and delivered to you. Don't forget that you could use this method and then add your own embellishments to further customise the cards.

Many people will keep an invitation as a memento of a special occasion so it is nice to make it something special to reflect the occasion.

Make your own invitation from scratch

Making your own invitations does not even need to be as complicated as above. A simple A5 invitation or card can be made by printing on a heavier weight A4 size card and folding it to produce a 4 page A5 invitation. No cutting needed, just a fold. Buy some A5 envelopes (You can also print part of the design on these if you want) and you have all you need. Once again, embellishments could be added. You can't get much simpler (or cost-effective) than that! Plus if you need more you can just print them. To help design your invitation you can usually download free templates for your word processor from the internet.

In most cases you can save a good slice of the cost and have a lot of fun when you make your own invitation.