How to Make Your Own Free Printable Invitations
Weddings are expensive events, so it's nice to save money where you can. Instead of paying hundreds of dollars for professionally designed invitations, show off your style and create budget-friendly invitations using free online templates. With a little work, a few hundred invitations can be printed by a copy shop for less than $100. Creating your own wedding invitations also shows each guest that you've spent the time to make the invitations personal.
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Things You'll Need
- Adobe Acrobat Reader
- Printer, preferably with color ink
- Ruler
- Notepad and writing implement
- Word processing software
- Blank printer paper
- Blank designer paper (if desired)
- Other decorative materials
Instructions
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Locate online templates for wedding invitations. Many Internet sites offer PDF files of invitation templates free of charge. One such website is do-it-yourself-invitations.com. From the top margin, click "Wedding." In the right margin on a lower section of the page, there will be a box titled "Printables and templates." Select the link for "Free printable wedding invites" from this list. This will bring you to a page of PDF templates that you can right-click to download. This is just one example of many templates available online.
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Select a template that serves your purposes for a wedding invitation. Click on the link or image to download a PDF file of the template. If the template has different files for both the front and the back of the card, make sure to download both files. Save the PDF files into an appropriate folder or onto your computer's desktop.
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Turn your printer on, and make sure that it has paper in the feed tray. Print a copy of the wedding invitation template. If the template has another side to it, print it onto the other side of your paper. Make sure to lay the paper in the feed tray so that the design will print on the opposite side instead of the side that has already been used.
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Use a ruler to determine the placement of the text on the card. Determine the depth of any text from the top of the page, as well as the height and width of that text. Record these measurements onto a notepad.
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Open your computer's word processing program. You may need to change the page orientation from "portrait" to "landscape" in the page setup option menu. Using the measurements you recorded in the previous step, insert any additional text that you would like printed on your wedding invitation so that the additional text will fit neatly on the card. Utilize the rulers to the side of your word processing document to properly measure the depth, height and width of your text. Save a copy of this file to your computer.
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Print out the additional text onto the wedding invitation copy you printed in Step 3. If the text overlaps, or if the spacing is undesirable, adjust your word processing file accordingly.
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Bring your printed wedding invitation to a local copy shop. If you want, bring your selected blank designer paper, or select a style of paper stock available at the copy shop. Order copies of your wedding invitation onto your chosen paper stock. Make sure that enough copies are produced to mail one to every wedding guest.
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Complete your wedding invitations by adding decorative materials. If you have a hole punch and some ribbon, you can create a decorative bow through the wedding invitation. If you have glitter and some light adhesive, you can create a shimmer effect on your invitations. Wherever possible, try to use the color scheme you've chosen for your wedding.
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