Selfmade Wedding Invites?
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- monospaced0
I've done a few wedding invites. Definitely a money-saver. They're on my site.
- Thanks! Had those bookmarked from another thread, great stuff! Were those letter press or self printed?formed
- Letterpress and/or offset lithomonospaced
- whatsup0
It's a good way to make use of promoting yourself as a designer at your own wedding
- ali0
Suggestions:
- For cheaper printing; use standard sizes not custom ie. postcard, DL etc
- Make your own lino cut design (and paper) and stamp yourself,
make it something beautiful your guests would love to keep or frame.
- Use classic black and white, add colour with stickers, beads, ribbon etc
- jurassica0
I designed my own. The paper merchant we generally use gave me the paper for free (always worth checking out if they have any sheets that aren't selling at the end of a run). I had a friend who is an offset printer. I designed his wedding invitations for him, so he printed mine for free as long as i supplied the stock. Kept it simple on an ivory vellum printed in black. It looked beautiful. Cost me about $70 all up.
- MrNibs0
- I spent money on professional printed letterpress cards but I printed guides to do the die cutting my self. (the back card had some notches that would have added a die charge to the process)
- Picked the letterpress paper to match envelopes that I got online for cheap.
- Found a chocolate brown envelope enclosure that I built a custom die to alter the opening and just spent several nights cutting those out.
- For $30 bucks you can get embossing stamps that I used everywhere to make shit feel like it was professionally done. (FYI hand embossing dies are not the greatest, the table mounted ones work much better)
- Also did a lot of laser b/w printing for addressing, labeling, and table numbers.
- Used a label machine that applies adhesive to any kind of paper so I could use the paper I wanted.
- Remixt0
Just be sure you use PAPYRUS for it...
- calculator0
I did my own invites, menus, order of service etc. I did it at the weekend in my spare time. I spent a long time on it, getting the design right and hand finishing everything. I'm glad I did it. You could argue that if I'd billed myself at my daily rate it would have cost a fortune, but that's not how it works.
Cost me about £100 in materials / printing. I wouldn't have been happy with anyone else doing it.
- jbasnight0
- not sure if it's selfmade but it's pretty brillantjbasnight
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- Not_Just_Another0
Currently doing my own - will be very rewarding when finished, but is taking far longer than I'd have hoped.
I couldn't imagine having anyone else do them.
- ximeraLabs0
We designed our own invites and hand made them all, with and epson printer, gold string & ribbon, watercolour paint a custom stamp and a hot wax gun. It was a lot of work, but so worth it.
- iheartfun0
I did my friends and it only cost around $750. It really all depends on how much you wanna put into it
- formed0
Anyone care to share more DIY examples?
What do people think about letter press vs. foil stamping? I've always leaned towards the latter (we thinking of getting one master page/card done, then spray mounting the detail prints in a different paper for each piece of the wedding)
- megE0
I do them for friends and family (I've really only had one 'pill' of a couple) and do them as wedding gifts - so they only pay printing costs.
It makes me want to do my own for sure - I do think you save a ton of money!
- capn_ron0
We did our own and even turned it into a business. For ours we made custom stamps and hand stamped each piece. We even went as far to tear each edge of all three pieces. In the end it took way to long, but it was way better than getting something generic. Also, the compliments you get make up for all the lost time in production. You are a designer, do your invites and you'll be happy.
- megE0
- ideaist0
Can't find any of his referenced print material but it is all sumed up online:
http://www.theeighthofaugust.com…
My girl did all the illustrations:
- He had unique RSVP codes and what not; a developers wedding!ideaist
- Ha. I did an online RSVP as well, makes it a lot easier. The illustrations are nice.MrNibs
- They we're better in print; i'll post the original invite we designed later... ; )ideaist
- Very Nice, I still gotta make that trip to your office. You still at the same place.hiten
- wait...sorry, your not Kris.hiten