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[carrig12]

hey missies,i was goin to make my invites but now im thinkin is it too much work? i,d have to make rsvp,s and thank you cards.should i just get cheap ones somewhere.we were tryin to save money but im afraid incase i make them and then i dont like them so il buy some anyway.(spending more money) help pls,any advice appreciated.

[MRS_D2B]

A good way to save money is not to do RSVP's just have the RSVP details on the invite.. I was at 6 weddings this year & all the invites had it that way & thats what I'm doing. I'm crafty was going doing my own invites but it is very time consuming.. so I have designed my own evening invites & printing them with vistapring @ 60cent per invite including envelope & this lady is doing my day invites & I'm laying out the wording, they are costing €2 each including envelope.. www.specialmomentsweddingstationery.com
I am doing the thank you cards myself & printing them on vistaprint - taking a photo of us from the wedding & editing it. I can show you samples..

[letmeeatcake]

DIY invitations can all depend on how much effort you want to put into them. You can buy DIY kits and put them together yourself after printing them out at home. All the paper and embellishments are in the kit. Or you can do everything from scratch, just buying pre-made card. I did it the most complicated (but cheapest way). I bought A4 card, paper, paper trimmer, scoring board, diamantes, ribbon, etc. and designed, cut and printed everything myself. It took a lot of time, and only for the fact I didn't have a job, I would never have done it all myself. It took a lot of time (and sanity )

DIY jobs, in general, doesn't matter how much work you need to do, will work out a little/lot cheaper than buying them. The massive upside of the bought invites is that a professional does them and you have just to look forward to the finished product instead of spending hours gluing/folding/decorating!

P.S. I also didn't have RSVPs. In this day and age they are mostly redundant, as everyone has email/mobiles (except for the older people).

[bingowings]

Hey I'm making my own invites I got plain ivory cards in Easons with envelopes. There are 50 cards and envelopes in a pack for €4.99. So we got two packs. I'm using a pearlescent paper on the inside and I'm printing the details on that and sticking it to the inside of the card. For the front, we're just going to have our names and date of marriage on the front on a kind of a frame like effect thing. I might add a ribbon around it yet, haven't decided. They're actually not that hard to make and look the part too. I'm going to get my friend to throw her designer eye over the font but already they look lovely so hopefully going to start making them soon. All in all it's costing me about €80.00 and I still have loads of card and paper left over to make evening invites and the church booklets. I might have to buy bigger card for the church booklets but I'm not doing too many of them so shouldn't be too bad. I'm all for the DIY myself so I say go for it if you have the time and patience!

[carrig12]

they sound greatwell done to ye ,im just nervous of the printing.i bought some bits and pieces so i might give it a try.anymore tips are welcome.thanks

[letmeeatcake]

If you are doing them yourself, make sure you get some strong glue. The papercraft glue like pritt stick is next to useless! Not anything that will seep through the paper though. Double sided tape is also a god send!

Another thing, try and make sure you do the invitations under natural daylight if possible. If not, make sure it is a very stron light, so you can see all the imperfections when you are doing them. Nothing worse that doing 20 invitations, feeling really proud and then looking at them the next day and realising that you have inky fingerprints all over them and didnt see it!

[sparkler83]

Hey carrig12,

I was undecided whether to go diy or not then I saw my friends she just did them very simply but still really nice so decided to give it a go. I ordered a sample from www.diyweddings.ie with a pack of the hearts I wanted to put on it, turned out lovely . I then ordered 100 gatefold cards and envelopes on ebay for €23 (incl postage) and then order ribbon and hearts etc from www.pureinvitation.co.uk.I think I'll just print our names on the bottom then just to personalise them I think I'll probably order my evening invites from diyweddings and stick the hearts onto it hope that helps. If your unsure maybe go with a diy kit that gives all the bits included - at least that way you'll save some €€€€s anyways

[carrig12]

Hey carrig12,

I was undecided whether to go diy or not then I saw my friends she just did them very simply but still really nice so decided to give it a go. I ordered a sample from http://www.diyweddings.ie with a pack of the hearts I wanted to put on it, turned out lovely . I then ordered 100 gatefold cards and envelopes on ebay for €23 (incl postage) and then order ribbon and hearts etc from http://www.pureinvitation.co.uk.I think I'll just print our names on the bottom then just to personalise them I think I'll probably order my evening invites from diyweddings and stick the hearts onto it hope that helps. If your unsure maybe go with a diy kit that gives all the bits included - at least that way you'll save some €€€€s anyways

thanks sparkler83, i must look into that!has any1 any photos of their handmade invitations?

[sam-4-bob]

We have a lady making our. 120euro for 80 Day invites, envelopes and rsvp cards.

http://www.facebook.com/#!/photo.php?fbid=269305866442677&set=a.207275072645757.59139.207273632645901&type=3&theater

Thats the invite we are having , only instead of purple we will be having it in teal

[MrsEL10]

I made my own invites, I got a sample from diywedding but they didn't tie in with my theme of feathers and pearls the way I wanted so I messed around using the card of the sample I got and used a template from another one of the invites and got feathers on ebay and this is how they turned out



If making your get a paper guillotine to cut the paper - makes it so much easier I thought, plus good adhesive like was said - I used this to stick paper to card and it was great http://www.diywedding.ie/candypress/scr ... roduct=112
I used way too much in the beginning but then learnt was enough to put it in a line around the corners and then a bit in the middle and it lasted longer

I used this to stick the feathers on http://www.diywedding.ie/candypress/scr ... oduct=1870

[sam-4-bob]

Love Love Love your invites MrsEl10!!! They are fab , well done:)

[MrsEL10]

Thanks I had fun with them i have to say and I got complimented on them. Made my mass booklets to tie in with them too - stuck feathers on the front of the booklets

[carrig12]

thanks girls,just to give ye an update i ordered my paper from ebay 2day so no going back. haha.il let ye know how i get on.wish me luck

[sparkler83]

Thats great Carrig let the diy begin My 2 BMs are planning on coming over and we'll make them over a few glasses of wine!! Good idea or not we'll see

[stacey26]

Hi Missies!!
My sister in law has a business from home making handmade invitations, she made mine and the attention to detail is amazing everybody commented on how unusual they were. Id be happy to put anybody on to her xxxx