Any advice on making own wedding invitations?

Answer 1

i did my own invitations. i got them at the local craft store but they have them at wal mart too. the kit comes with everything. you just go online pick a format and lettering and print them out. super easy and elegant.

Answer 2

Sure. Avoid trying to make them look like engraved since the look and feel is very hard to bring off. Instead choose a style that fits you and spouse-to-be and the kind of wedding you are planning. For example, you might want a formal look, but by using an illuminated manuscript as a model do a look that allows a formal script for the text but with illustrations down the side and for the initials. If you are doing them on the computer, you can add small pictures of any or all of the wedding party - people who come will have a photo guide to who is doing what.
If you have a typical wedding "we have to invite aunt Alice and her new husband and your boss should get an invitation" then perhaps as many as half the people at the wedding (wives, sisters, etc.) have never heard of either of you and a large chuck have heard of one but know nothing of the other, so using the invitation to extend knowledge would be a unique way to provide more community in the congregation.
If you want to do the parental connection used in standard invitations "Mr. & Mrs. Martin Jones cordially invite you to the wedding of their daughter, Joanne Lillian to Mr. Martin Smith ..." you could extend this with some background on both sets of parents and how you two got together.
By choosing some very nice paper, you can take even plain printing to a new level. One trick is to print the text larger than the final copy and go to a copy place and reduce copy it on to nice paper. This makes the text crisper (as long as detail is not wiped out, do a test copy) and gives a nice experience.

Answer 3

Advice hey,

1) Choose a design that you have already seen something similar to (even just a photo) rather than make it up yourself.
Choose the design first and then pick your colours.

2) Keep in mind that you can only print from home darker ink on lighter paper or it won't show. If you want light print on darker paper (emboss or foil) you will need to have it done professioanally

3) Make your first sample then repeat. Once you have it perfect and know you can make it easily then start mass producing.

4) Experiment with fonts, but make sure the font is readable. Some a so flowery you can't tell what letters are which.

5) Most Important! Print several test invitations on the right sized plain paper before you start on the official ones. I find you need a minimum of 4 of these before you get the text size, allignment and colour exactly right.

Answer 4

Use Print Shop

Answer 5

My Mother Got Her's From Wal-Mart!

Answer 6

There are some that you can print out on your computer and they look really good. I used them, and my sister said they looked like I got them made professionally.