Postcard Invitations

How about the seal and send style? It's better than a postcard invite, but much more cost effective than a standard invite. These usually use a postcard for RSVP (cheaper postage for those).

I think you can have something more than a post card if you DIY your invites. Depending on your crowd, you can also get away with doing a phone RSVP... everything just depends on who's receiving the invite and what you want to do. I am currently in the process of building a stationary portfolio, so I would be more than happy to offer my services at no cost to help you design a one of a kind invitation for your special day.

I offer post card and seal and send. I can send you the link if you are interested.

Ann Marie how many invitations do you need to make and what is your total budget for invitations (including postage)

Thats a toughy, I think postcards is a cute idea. I guess it really depends on what kind of "theme, style" your wedding is...causual, formal, etc. If its a formal event u want then I would try to do something more formal, even DIY. You can get stationary, card stock, ribbon etc, and do it ur self.

You could indeed get away with postcard invitations. Seal and send photo invitations are a nice way to bridge the gap as well. It all depends on the style of wedding you're having. Your invitations are what set the tone for yor event. I offer both styles if you're interested. I offer the digital jpeg file so that you can print yourself as well ($18 plus the cost of photofinishing, aprox 15-42 cents each). You can check out our website at www.dolcettodesigns.com or message me for more info if you're interested.

I agree that it would certainly depend on your wedding style and if you can find one that still says "wedding." Printing your own invites on simple, nice paper can be very inexpensive and give you options for making it nicer [I lined my envelopes with wrapping paper for a custom look that cost me $3 for all of them.]

I bought my paper from papersource.com, although there are many other options. You can do some great things with the simple 5x7 paper and envelopes. Michaels craft store & Target both have wedding suites for around $30 for 50 invites. You can use the RSVP cards that are included as thank you cards to save money.

In regards to the RSVP, we've had great luck with including email & an RSVP option on the website. Everyone responded really quickly. I know I would personally find it a lot simpler than remembering to drop the RSVP card off at the office on my way to my car, so I think thats a great way to cut costs.

I know the postage is cheaper on postcards. But the one thing to keep in mind is your invites will arrive to your guests really beat up. Post cards get black marks all over them and bent. I would at least send an invite that has an envelope.

I agree with Christine that you should put them in envelopes--an A6 envelope will fit with a little extra space (but not too much). I just ordered a bunch from envelopemall.com for our announcements, which are going to be custom photo postcards from moo.com.

If you have some nice pictures of you & your future spouse, I think the photo postcards are a really nice invite (we did them as invitations, too). Moo.com has really high print quality and it's $20/20 cards or $50/60 cards, with as many different photos as you want (same text on the back of all of them). They also sell envelopes that are exactly the right size (a bit smaller than A6) for $6.50-$9.00 for 20, so a bit more expensive, but as noted A6 envelopes work fine if you want to save a few dollars on that.

Anyway, we did photo postcards and had people email RSVP, and it was fine--my mom showed hers off all over school (she's a teacher), and people thought it was cute.

I had postcards as my RSVP and it was a .23 cent stamp and a lot of people like that idea, it's something they never saw before.

I'm on a budget so tight it squeaks, and I just don't think invitations are one item I want to spend a lot of money on. So I will be going with Seal and Send invitations. Granted, our wedding is going to be very informal and very small (30 or fewer guests, so roughly 50 invites), these types of invites should fit in nicely with what we have planned. And they work out to be a lot less expensive than traditional invites.

There are lots of really nice designs out there for Seal and Sends, no envelopes for either the invites or the response cards (less paper is a positive for me), but the invites fold up into themselves so they don't arrive all mucked up like a postcard. Plus, no licking envelopes, as Seal and Sends seal with nice seals! And, since the response cards are postcards, less postage. I'm sold on them, but if you're having a formal or semi-formal event, I'm not sure if they would work.

I received a postcard invite last year for a wedding. The front had a nice pic of the couple and the back had all the info and RSVP requested by email or phone. It was fine. Although, FH did say that had he not seen his friend's mug on the front of the postcard, he may have disregarded it as junk mail. That was the only negative thing about it.

Also, I just looked at one seal and send site and DAMN, those were expensive to me ($300 for 60). I ordered 60 6x9" flat invitations with matching envelopes, 60 rsvp cards with white envelopes, 50 thank you cards with white envelopes, and 140 matching labels from VistaPrint for $160 (includes shipping). Sign up on their site and you will get offers for % off daily and I think they do post card invites too so you might get away cheaper than I did. I actually used oversized postcards for my STD's through them - Those were free and they looked GREAT!

I picked up DIY invitations which come with response cards $10 for 50. I did postcards with a picture on us for the save the date cards - every one loved them. I included our email s on the STD cards and we got lots of excited responses. Sorry I just think that just a post card for invitations is not enough. I agree with Christine, they need to be in an envelope cause the post office is not nice with post cards. Seal & send cards sound fine, but the cost on DIY invitations are the same and are much prettier.

I have yet to find a decent seal and send invite that I like, which is why I was thinking of the postcards. I'm doing a rather informal wedding, kinda quirky so I don't feel the need to have it be super fancy. I DO like the idea of having postcard invites and then just putting them in envelopes to protect them. Thanks for the advice/input!

Let us know how it goes! Moo.com also has a lot of premade designs that you can choose to order on postcards, if you don't want to use photos.

Postcards can work well, but I agree, they may arrive at your guests home not looking as good as when you send them out. A few years back I received a postcard invitation that had a black streak right across the couple's face. It was such a shame, I didn't even want to put it up. With post card and photo card invitations (or cards in general) I always suggest to put it in an envelope as well. This helps to keep the invitation looking as good as possible. I include envelopes with all printed orders for this purpose.