Selfmade Wedding Invites?
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- PunchDouble0
im doing mines right now
it is a headache as in you have to be very satisfied with your own work and it's a lot of workbut its definitely saving us money
- How much time & effort is going into to your invites? How is it saving money?utopian
- Unless your hourly rate is $6.50 per hourutopian
- i have the ability to print them at work. and i spent my nights/weekends working on themPunchDouble
- MrNibs0
If you have the time I'd say try and tackle it yourself. You'll be happier with the results. Yes it saves money but you can also figure out what you want to print professionally and what you can do on your own. I spent a little money on the letterpress cards and die cut and made everything else myself.
If you're inviting 600 people to your wedding then you might want to reconsider comping up that much shit. But doing 150 or so is not that bad. Rent a bunch of movies and spend ur nights chopping shit up.
My invite:
- do you have any more pics by any chance? looks awesomePunchDouble
- Very niceismith
- eh. that's the exciting part. the rest is a bunch of informational crap.MrNibs
- More details..please? How'd you print/cut them? I am designing my sister's nowformed
- dirtydesign0
Nibs. Those are really nice.
Thanks for the info. I guess I'll have to see how much a 'good design' will cost us. Then get a quote from my NYC printers.
- utopian0
I am still try figure out how it saves money by designing the invites? Your hourly rates must be below minimum wage, and you must not have any billable work that could be done.
- dirtydesign0
by saving money i mean... if an invitation designer is gonna charge us 3 grand, maybe i could design them and print them for 500.
- dirtydesign0
Nibs. How much did you end up spending?
- welded0
I made ours by hand since we only needed about 10 and it wouldn't have made a lot of sense to pony up for such a tiny print run when we wanted to keep costs low. Over all I am happy with how they turned out and since I cut and stamped everything myself each was unique in some way (ie. errors...). I might dig up a left over and scan it.
- formed0
How much are people spending here? I've seen most come in at a few hundred (DIY) with higher end ones with nice printing at a few grand.
I am designing some now but need to keep the costs down (sister's wedding).