Doing my own invitations

We are also making our own invitations. We are using greetingsisland.com, they have 100s of templates and free to print! We purchased cardstock paper to print on.

I used cardstock for mine and it was perfect. Good luck and enjoy.

Oh my. Gurl! Only one tip!!!!!! GET GOOD CUSHY PENS!!! or use the internets! lmao! I helped my sister in law with hers, WE ONLY USED PENS!!!!!!!! Big mistake. My fingers were blistery for a literal year.

View Quoted Comment Ouch,sounds painful😥

View Quoted Comment Oh I have not heard of that site

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View Quoted Comment Its amazing. I don't even remember how I found it, but it has helped and the invitation has matching RSVP cards, etc. Check it out!

View Quoted Comment I never knew this existed! Thank you so much!!

View Quoted Comment You're welcome! We are working with a small strict budget, so we are looking anything free or low cost.

View Quoted Comment Same. I had invitations drafted through Microsoft Publisher, but they just didn't look quite how I wanted. Plus I explored this site and found Save the Dates too! Back to Addy's original question, I'm using regular cardstock with a filler page behind it to add a border and similar invention enclosements.

View Quoted Comment That's awesome! I'm glad you found something you liked from the website. We also created our save the dates with using our first pic together lol. We plan on sending them out the end next month. We plan on sending then via email/text to save on postage. But, will mail it to older guest who do not deal with technology lol.

Hi! My family owns a print shop so I was lucky enough to be able to design my own as well as print them. I did mine on kraft paper, with the doilies as you can see here. The invitation itself can be printed on pretty much any type of stock but yes, you should use card stock. 100# if you can find one you like. The somewhat transparent paper is called vellum or you can also use a trans bond but vellum is more common. You can definitely do it!

I also did my own STD's on the same type of paper.

I'm using cardstock for our invitations

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Those are really cool! how did you make those?

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Thanks so much! They took forever to assemble and get printed but now that they're done, I am glad we did them. I printed them on kraft paper in all the different sizes. I folded the doilies in half, cut them and glued them to the backs of the invitations. Stacked the other cards on top and used corn to wrap them. The little tags were printed on the same stock and cut out.