How to Create Your Own Wedding Invitations

Do you want to save a little cash and make your wedding invitations a little more personal? Why not create your own wedding invitations? With many services offered, creating your own wedding invitations is easy and can be a fun group project. If you are considering this option instead of going the mass-produced route, you might find these steps to creating your own wedding invitations helpful.

Things You'll Need

• Supplies for making the invitations in the proper proportions with a little extra to allow for error
• Concrete ideas for your design (actual premade invitations to borrow ideas from)
• Words you want on your invitations
• List of all guests you are inviting including address and proper name

Instructions

1. Consider the theme of your wedding. Does it have specific colors or themes that you would want to incorporate into the invitations? If so, then buy your materials accordingly.

2. Shop around for materials to use for your invitations. You can go high tech with your invitations and buy pre-made packs or you can design your own at home.

3. Decide how much you want to spend on invitations. If the cost of making them yourself outweighs the pre-made variety, you may want to reconsider the materials being used.

4. Play with your printer and computer. Explore the font options and colors available to you. It may be possible to make up your own invites with your home computer.

5. Check out the shops. Many stores have do it yourself packs that may end up being cheaper and look better than something you make at home.

6. Consider what you want your invites to say. Sometimes the wording is just as important as what the invitation looks like.

Tips & Warnings

• Think about how many people you are going to invite to your wedding. If you are only sending a few hundred invitations or less, the home made invitations are great. If you are sending out over five hundred, you may want to consider if this is a good time expenditure.

• Check out fabric stores and office supply stores. You may be able to find a ream of really beautiful paper for your wedding invitations or some ribbon and lace to add that special touch.

• Explore some of the pre-made wedding invitations to give you inspiration for your own designs.

• Try to find envelopes that will match your invitations. These are a little more tricky to construct than the invitations themselves, so you may want to purchase them.

• Don't dig yourself a hole you can't climb out of. Start the assembly of your invites early. While it's fun to make them, they can be time consuming.

• Unless you have a devoted team of invitation makers at your disposal, consider the realistic aspect of making five hundred invitations in a weekend.