Stars...

Hi, have you thought of making your own invites and buying a star cut out stamp. My mum made ours, our theme is hearts.

Cheaper aswell!!

Star-shaped biscuits as favours / place names. Delia Smith has a good recipe which you could adapt.

https://www.deliaonline.com/recipes/star-shaped-biscuits,2042,RC.html

You could write people's names on them instead of covering them in icing.

You can find star metallic confetti quite easily - you could sprinkle this on your tables.

Ooo now this was featured in wedding ideas mag.... cant recall which one though but was definately this year!! Given its xmas you are also gonna get loads of star shaped things in the sales!!

What about something astronomical on the invitations, perhaps find some constellations like venus (goddess of love).

You can have dark blue cards, with sparkly silver or diamonte's for each star which makes the 'picture'

How about Naming the Tables after Stars ( Astronomical)

Using Large Stars cut from Sparkly Paper as Name Place Cards

Milky Way Stars in the Favours

Some ideas

Ahh sherrie does it again!!

? Told you I have pics for everything!

I bet everyone thinks " Oh god here she goes again!"

I love your pics Sherrie! Your like a mood board from a wedding mag online and on tap!?

Thanks ladies, some great ideas.

Sherrie I absolutely LOVE the silver star cupcake cake, where did that come from?

The real problem I seem to be having is finding invites with stars, how much on average should invitations cost?

I'm not really very good at all this ?

I had something similar but with hearts instead of stars. I had the cup cakes made in Gold cases & iced with white icing then bought some Icing in a tube from Asda & stuck all the stars on individually. The top tier was a Tesco Ready Iced cake & I wired a bunch of the stars together put them in a plastic pic & stuck them in the top of the cake. The stand I made from different sized cake boards & made bows & pearls & decorated them.

I think futuremrslord made her own invitations with stars on and they were fab. Maybe she could give you some tips?

ooo i feel a challenge coming on! lolololol....

(thinks of obscure themes - as if mine wasnt obscure enough!)

seriously tho sherrie, yer brilliant!

Thank you!

I do like the idea of making my own invitations (I've got to use that GCSE in art for something), at least that way I'll get exactly what I want. I just don't know if I have the staminer and patients to do like 100 of them though.

I guess I do have plenty of time to make them though so I could spread it out.

xx

Hi Laura

Many stationery designers are usually more than happy to adapt some of their existing ranges to incorporate stars or create something especially for you, even if they don't have set star designs on their sites. A good designer would be able to give you exactly what you want (or even something you hadn't thought of but may work better) as long as you brief them well. I've made a number of star themed orders over the years so would be happy to help and discuss some ideas. There are a few other designers on here I'm sure could help too. So please don't worry that you can't find an "off the shelf" design as we are used to working to individual themes and enjoy the opportunity!

Prices for stationery will vary widely depending on whether they are 100% printed (and the print method), handmade/handfinished, and also the format you require eg portfolio style designs are usually more expensive than traditional tent fold style cards. But there are also flat layered style invitations and more unusual formats too. Many designers will also work to a given budget too and can often cut costs further by making items with a dual purpose such as combined table names and menus, place card menus, place card and favour tags, table plans incorporated in wedding programs etc.

I hope that's been of some help

suz x

Stars - superb theme!!!

As for stationery, I totally echo what Suz says .... too many brides look at a few websites or stationery featured in wedding mags and think 'waaaay too expensive' - but most stationers will be able to work to a tight budget - for a bride recently I worked "backwards" - from finding out what she could afford to spend and designed her something using materials that would fall within her budget and it worked very well!

No bride should assume what is on websites is all thats on offer price or design wise - I have 6 orders on the go @ the moment and all but 2 are totally bespoke and costed accordingly.

So there are folk out there who could help save you both on the time it takes to make 100 invites, and also possibly money in the long run as they are likely to have trade suppliers, so access to better priced materials.

Mrs SP x

We made our own invites and save the date cards. With help from my auntie!! Look really good- i'll post some pics tonight when i get home.