diy Invites Guidance

We personally got our printed through Catprint. They're kind of limited in the sizes of paper you can get, but the paper was beautiful. You can also upload a completely custom design to Shutterfly and use their printing services!

I'm going to use Catprint to print my invitations, vellum belly bands, and a watercolor map directions/details card. We're skipping response cards in favor of an online RSVP through Joy, and I might make a weekend events card, but I can't decide yet.

Here are all the optional things brides.com lists in addition to the invitation itself, the envelope, and the postage:

- response card and envelope
- reception card
- directions card
- weekend events card
- accommodations card
- invitation wrapper aka belly band

We had a friend design our invitations. We ordered paper and envelopes from Paper and More. Great selection and quality. We took them to Fed Ex Office to get them cut.
https://www.paperandmore.com/?gclid=cjwkcajwzaslbhbjeiwajsrokmboit54az-aae-biclkm-izdr_hyyyszmx1ytvuxm12yhct7nmw1xocfckqavd_bwe

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Ah! Amazing. Thank you for both of those resources. Just ordered a free sample pack from Catprint!!

Would love to see how your invites turned out / cost of it all!

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OO! How did ya have them printed? And how much did everything come out too?

My best friend is a graphic designer and she designed my invitation suite! We just did the invitation itself, an RSVP card and the 2 envelopes to go with it. I did everything through Cards and Pockets once she had it all designed and they were REALLY reasonably priced and everything printed out absolutely beautiful. I'd definitely check them out for the DIY invitation suite, because they were much cheaper than places like Shutterfly.

View Quoted Comment We printed them on our office printer lol. Fed Ex Office can print them though I don't know what they charge for it. The papers and envelopes came to about $150-175 for approximately 90 invitations. Cutting everything, invites, rsvp cards and details cards came to less than $50.

I’m making mine myself I just bought a good printer so i didn’t have to stress about who would allow me to print on my watercolor painted card stock paper

These are my save the dates I’m working on i decided to add qr code for my guest convenience to our website so that i could keep them small and i put magnets on them for the convenience of our guest to not forget

Here's our save the dates and what is on it.

In addition to the invitation, there is a reply card and a details card which lists everything: reception address if different from the ceremony venue, a map to the venue (so much more accurate than gps). Hotel info optional and wedding website can be listed on the details card. Don’t assume that guests know how to use a QR code and do not list registry info. Also keep everything on the front because many will not look on the back.