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How to Design Wedding Invitations in Less Than 5 Minutes

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You can design your own wedding invitations quickly and easily!
You can design your own wedding invitations quickly and easily!

You can save money by designing your own wedding invitations and taking them to a local printer, rather than purchasing invitations from a printing company. This article will tell you how to design beautiful wedding invitations on your own.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy
Instructions

Things You'll Need:

  • working knowledge of Word or Publisher
  1. Step 1
    Wedding invitations from weddingpaperdivas.com.
    Wedding invitations from weddingpaperdivas.com.

    It's suggested that you have an example of wedding invitations you can reference while designing your own. You can easily find some online; notice this one we found at weddingpaperdivas. Choose a size for your wedding invitations that will match envelopes available from your printer. Most are 5x7. Start with a text box that size.

  2. Step 2
    Start your wedding invitations with text boxes.
    Start your wedding invitations with text boxes.

    You should know how you want your wedding invitations to be worded; not all have the standard "Mr and Mrs Smith invite you ..." but we'll use that for this example. Add a text box with the introductory wording. This font should be somewhat square and easy to read. Notice our sample.

  3. Step 3
    The bride's and groom's names are usually fancier on wedding invitations.
    The bride's and groom's names are usually fancier on wedding invitations.

    The names of the bride and groom on wedding invitations are usually fancier, but remember to use a font that's still readable. Play around with a few different fonts.

  4. Step 4
    Continue adding text boxes to your wedding invitations.
    Continue adding text boxes to your wedding invitations.

    Keep adding text boxes for your wedding invitations with the rest of the wording. Space them out so they look even. This is why you use different text boxes for the different paragraphs and names on the wedding invitations, so you can move them around easily.

  5. Step 5
    Add a border to dress up your wedding invitations.
    Add a border to dress up your wedding invitations.

    To dress up your wedding invitations, add a nice border. Go to http://office.microsoft.com and click on Clip Art, then search for border. They have literally thousands of border designs as well as clip art you can use.

  6. Step 6
    Your wedding invitations are done!
    Your wedding invitations are done!

    You can also add some clip art as decoration. Notice our example.

Tips & Warnings
  • Take your time to experiment with different fonts, spacing, and borders. Remember that once they're printed, that's it!
  • Run off plenty of samples on your home printer so you can be sure what the finished product will look like.
  • Use a dark brown ink for a personal touch.

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