Budget Wedding Invitations and Stationery

Ideally, budget wedding invitations should be mailed out 6-8 weeks before the big day to give guests time to make arrangements to attend and RSVP back to you. Make sure you have accurate addresses for all your invited guests. Extra people means extra expense – cut corners here.

Once you have your guest list, you’ll have an idea of how many invitations you’ll need. Budget wedding invitations shouldn’t be a big expense for you. Most people read it once, note the date, take out the RSVP card and throw the invite away. Remember, we’re trying to save money here!

Budget Wedding Invitations - There are also inexpensive programs and websites out there specifically made for creating stationery, invitations and greeting cards. Just do a search on the web for “free-stationery.com” or “free-photo-greeting-cards” and you’ll find an assortment of sites and software.

Budget Wedding Invitations - When creating your own invitations and stationery, you can easily buy heavy card stock at most any office supply or discount store. I don’t recommend pre-printed stationery if you are really trying to save money. Most inkjet printers today, especially the best ones with individual color ink tanks, can print on heavy card stock or card template paper at less than 5 cents a page.

Take your invitations or stationery to a specialized copy shop or office supply store. They can usually copy onto whatever paper you want (heavy card stock, pre-printed, etc.) and in color if you choose and your budget allows (budget wedding invitations).

It’s still a lot less expensive than having custom Budget Wedding Invitations made

Budget Wedding Invitations - Keep in mind, though, the number of invitations you’ll need to embellish. The traditional practice for wedding invitations is to put the invitation inside an envelope and then place that envelope inside another envelope. If you’re doing your own invitations, check with some small local print or card shops for leftover envelopes they might have.

How many people are going to compare wedding invitation envelope sizes before, during or even after the wedding? If you need to have RSVP’s, consider putting it on a small postal size card. Consider also printing reception information directly on the invitation itself. You can use labels to print out addresses on your computer. OpenOffice Suite (free from OpenOffice.org) and MS Word both come with most standard Avery templates built in.

If you don’t like the impersonal nature of address labels, by all means, address the envelopes personally by hand. We happened to have a friend who sold wedding invitations as a side business at an incredible cheap rate and she offered up a discounted rate as a wedding gift. We ended up with 300 invitations for just $60 (budget wedding invitations). You may want to hand deliver some invitations to save on postage.

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