How to Design your own Wedding Invitations

Wedding invitations are an important part of your big day. Invitations can be used to tell people the details of your day as well as to show off your personality. For this, or any other reason, you may choose to design your own wedding invitations. These steps will help you get started.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Internet
• Computer
• Newspapers
• Bridal magazines

1. Collect all the important information about your wedding day. Be sure not to forget any details you want your guests to know.

2. Consider your budget. Designing your own invitations can range from fairly inexpensive to very costly depending on materials and printing costs.

3. Decide how you will be designing the invitations. You might choose between doing them by hand or on a computer.

4. Consult bridal magazines and the Internet. Be sure to look at the advertiser’s sections for information you can use. There are Web sites that allow you to design your invites totally on the Internet and they will simply ship them to you.

5. Decide what the invitations will be printed on. There is a wide variety of paper options suited for wedding invitations.

6. Determine any colors you will be using on the invitation. Colors can be the same as the color scheme chosen for the wedding, but they don’t have to be.

Tips & Warnings

• Designing your own wedding invitations doesn’t have to be a stressful process. Take time in deciding what you want and shop around for good prices.
• Consider using your computer. There are a lot of great programs out that can assist you in creating an invitation or give you inspiration.
• If you aren’t sure, talk to a salesperson at a store or to someone who is computer savvy about designing them yourself.
• When creating your own invitations, remember that you are the person who makes all of the decisions and deals with any problems along the way. Be sure it’s worth the investment you will have to make in time, effort, and possibly cash.

[jennarene]

on 6/15/2009 A great place to design your own invitations is www.monogramwedding.com. They offer a wide selection of colors and many different fonts. I found them through Facebook and if you enter the code "Facebook" you save 10% at checkout!

[bobbo]

on 3/12/2008 This is useless. Its like telling people if they want to know how to do something just keep looking at other articles.