Wedding Forum - Wedding Invites (make or buy?)...

I'm getting print your own invites, not creative enough to design my own :)

I made all mine ( pics in my album)

I designed mine with the help of someone from the printers (pront@print).. had them printed through them, hen put them together myself sticking them down and adding ribbon etc... so i had 50/50 with mine!
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I was going to have a go at making one,even got some bits to do it,(only spent £4) but now we've changed our theme from vintage lace and buttons to rustic woodland so I'm going to buy them now x

We're making ours, just purchased all the cards and lining paper, just got to work out how long it'll take as each one needs to be hand cut and as my partner is a perfectionist it could take a while lol!
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I made mine. After ridiculous quotes in just paper, anything between £175-535 for 100 invites and order of service. In the end we got good quality card to make inserts, which was £2.99 for 500 sheets, so plenty for mistakes, and one of the cheapest places for meat mg cards/ envelopes, in loads of colour choices, was j0 hn l3 wis, cheaper then h0 bby cr aft, and other various shops. I put mat gnat tartan ribbon on mine which was £2.50 per 5 meter roll, and pearl hearts which was 59p for 38 in a pack, and used my FIL to be, printer. It took a couple of evenings to complete, but all together cost around £15, the stamps were more expensive then the invites believe it or not! And we've had so many positive comments about them. Because believe it or not, whether we like to think people do, but apart from parents and ourselves, most people throw them away after. And there's so many more things to spend money on I think. So if you have the patience and time, I would make your own xx

I made mine 50 day and 50 evening invites for around £40. Pics are in my album. Bought things off the bay of e and a local store.

I'm making ours, as well as our save the dates, table plan, etc.

The type of invites I like (classic/vintage, with lace, ribbon, and diamante/pearl embellishment) tend to sell for £5-6 each, with save the dates about £3-4 each. So far, we've only ordered the bits for the save-the-dates, but it's cost us about £90 in total for them: that's for 70 professionally printed personalised cards and envelopes, ribbon, lace, and pearl/diamante embellishments; so, about £1.30 per card plus time.

The invites should work out at a similar price; about £1.50 per invite.

Still not super-cheap, and obviously there's my time as well, but a lot better than £5 lol.

we're making our own but keeping it really simple and having them as postcards with no fiddly bits x

I found after lots of searching.... Going for a vintage lace theme, for all stationary I wanted it a coming in about £1000. I couldn't justify such a big spend on lots of card and paper.... So I used Pintrest gots lots of ideas, found an amazing American website that sold all coloured card, pre cut to any size, with envelopes, inserts and pocket folds ordered some samples, and have just spent £350 inc tax on lace, and everything including tapes and glue for ...

80 invitations (pocketofld) including card cut to size for 3 inserts,(accommodation, gift list, and directions)
80 envelopes
80 RSVP cards and envelopes
Enough card cut to size for table plan, all double mounted, going on a old frame covered in hessian.
Enough card again to make double mounted table name tags, and place settings.
About 70 metres of lace to go around all the invites, table names and place settings.

For my save the dates I ordered a custom made stamp, and old brown luggage labels.

And to top this whilst I have lots of time I am really enjoying making them.

I've made mine and only took me three days they are the cheque book style... Really easy to do x

I think it depends on the type of invite that you would like.

But people on face of book can make them for cheaper prices, and they are handmade.

I am making my own they should cost around £1.00 each to make, as i am using my own stock.

im making ours, i have the luxury of having more time than i know what to do with though, as that would play a factor if i was still working full time, or just how fussy i want them to be overall!

I'm buying mine 50 for £33 and they're better then anything I could possibly make lol x

Thanks girls,

I would like to make my own and would possibly be better due to the fact I would need to out several options in for our guests wanting to stay for 1 Week and those for 2 Weeks as we are getting married in Crete. But as I work in the hotel trade and my h2b is a chef I am not 100% if we would have the time due to strange working hours and tbh I don't know if we have the artistic skills between us, lol

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