DIY invitations, help please!

I used wedding chicks templates, dead easy and loads to choose from ?

I helped my Sister in Law make hers. She bought her card, diamantes, ribbon & butterflies off ebay. She created the wording on her computer but I don't think she used a programme, she just sized it all herself! She bought a glue gun for sticking everything on & we had a production line going to put it all together! I can go & take a pic of my invite if you really want to see it? x

Hey Tulleprincess

We made our invites ourselves. We brought the cards (wardrobe fold) and ribbon from the range (seemed to be best priced in our area), purple paper from Dunelm Mill, ivory paper from staples and Heart hole punch from Hobby Craft.

We researched templates on the net to find the wording we wanted and then typed this up in word in the font and colour we wanted. Printed these onto the ivory paper. Hole punched the "two doors" on the cards ad then put the purple card on the inside (stuck with double sided tape so that it didn't crease). This made the hearts on the outside look purple and also gave us a purple boarder on the inside. Stuck the ivory paper on top of the purple paper (just the middle part and not the two doors) and finished by putting the ribbon around the outside and stuck this underneath the ivory paper to hold it down (stuck the ivory paper on top of it).

Typing it out like that makes it seem really complicated but it was fairly easy. It did take us around 9 hours to make 70 of them but we had a little production line going with my parents and tbh the time went pretty quickly. Was well worth it as we saved hundreds and everyone has asked us who we hired to make them so win win.

Good luck with yours x

I have just brought a ruber stamp and ink and made my own. I have typed the inserts myself.

I have added some purple flowers and tuck down the card and invite with foam backed sticky stuff.

wow you are all so creative! I would love to see a picture of the finished article if anyone has one? I am obviously going to have to get my Bms involved xxx

I ordered card and pocketfolds from PDA Card & Craft, and ribbon from ebay. I designed the invite, cover and inserts on photoshop and then laid them out in powerpoint so that they fit onto a few sheets of A4, printed and trimmed to fit. I used double sided tape to stick all the pieces together. The card was called Cryogen, it wasn't pearlescent but had a glittery sparkle to it.

Then I designed the menus, order of service and table names to match...

Flash overload!!!!

Wow your stationary is amazing! well done you!! x

Here are mine. Same as Mrs C I also designed mine on Photoshop and bought the cards from PDA cards and craft. I printed the inserts myself on just a normal printer.

Day:

Evening:

I have designed mine in photoshop and had it printed on a nice quality card at a printers. It's A4 and folded in half. The inner side is set out like a 1940s wedding telegram with an Octopus at the bottom reaching up. The outside is a dark blue navy pattern as my grandfather was in the navy and he never lived to see me get married. I have transparent vellum envelopes so the idea is when the invitation is folded it appears like this: https://thefinancialbrand.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/la_capitol_vellum_envelope.jpg

I can write in a Chancery Cursive Hand as I learned Script Handwriting so I will be doing all the invitations myself

Both look amazing, has given me a few pointers for doing mine xx

Can someone give me a little help...my colour scheme is Teal and Green (the green near the centre of a peacock feather!) I have teal card with really nice off white paper for the inserts and then the perfect green colour ribbon to pull it all together. Do you think black writing on the inserts will be fine and it won't look too simple? xx

Wow these things look absolutely beautiful, well done. I would love to be so creative and neat!!! how did you actually print onto the card?also did you use card that already had the background print on it-the flowers?

I wouldnt mind getting in touch with you to discuss invites further, I would love something that looks so professional but that I have done myself. I reckon it would be a challenge getting them all to look identical. I just hope all my 70+ invites look equally nice.

another question how did you get the map created?

wow again

Wow great ideas girls, I have favorited a few of them

Rachel, can you give us a picture that shows the colours or the invite itself so we have a better idea?

You can always buy black shining pens if you are worried in keeping too simple!

I made these but we have a huge guest list so the budget for everything else is tiny. These were very cheap

One sheet of Lavender card = 3.5p

One sheet of ivory paper (to do 3 comp slip size inserts) = 1.5p

Ribbon = 4p

Heart and label for the front < 1p

I did have to buy a cutter to do the heart for £9.50 but over 100 invite and 100 orders of service plus any extra decor works out less than 5p

Less than 15p per invite

so flash!

Hi all.Wedding is in 8 months time. We were hoping to make our own invites, but we are finding it hard knowing what we need.

The ones we seem to see online have lots of separate cards with them with maps/rsvp cards etc. We are setting up a wedding website so instead of sending maps were hoping to put a link on the invite to our website which will have all the details about the venue and how to get there, and places to stay etc. We were also going to request people rsvp on our website.

Do you have to include these details with the invite itself (is this etiquette??)

Also, many of the invites we have found online seem to say "reception to follow" on them without space to write the evening details on....big question: If you're inviting someone to the day time, shouldnt you also add the details of the evening reception to the same invite? surely you dont send separate evening invites out if they're coming to the whole thing.

Obv we will send separate evening invites out to those only invited to the evening.

also many of the ones we see online seem to be one piece of card as opposed to an actual card you open....whats the norm?

We are also struggling to know how to print on card and am beginning to think it would be easier to print on to paper and stick it on to a pre bought already folded card. I am getting really stressed about this element of the wedding.

please help lol!!!