Did you get your wedding invitations off the Internet or did you print them out yourself?

Question

Has anyone ever printed there own wedding invitations off the computer? I saw that wal-mart has the paper for it, but was wondering how they would turn out? The wedding shop that I am getting all of my dresses from don't do invitations anymore and I am not sure where to get them? Any ideas would help! Thank you!

Answer 1

Hubby and I bought some of the make-your-own invites from Wal*Mart, but they wouldn't go through our printer too well. What we ended up doing was creating a design we liked, putting it onto his thumb drive, and taking it up to Kinkos. It was very, very inexpensive, and they even delivered the invites to our home for free!

Answer 2

Go on-line and checkout vistaprint.com (or.ca if you are in Canada).  You can design your own, or use their templates.  I've seen the results and if you are looking for something simple, it can look really great.  Matching envelopes, too!

Good Luck!

Answer 3

I bought the kit from walmart and made some embellishments to them to make them personal, but yes, I printed them myself and they came out beautifully.

Answer 4

It really depends on the quality of your printer. Try taking some normal (cheap) cardstock and printing something on it. If it looks good, then you should be fine.  

Answer 5

You can save money and still have style with your wedding invitations. Walmart, Michaels** and Target have all started putting out invitations that are easy to print from your home computer.

I recently purchased our wedding invitations from Michaels. They came with instructions, as well as a link to the manufacturer's website with templates on how to print the individual pieces.

They turned out fantastic! No one could tell that I only spent $35 on them!!! I even got a compliment that they were the nicest wedding invitations that they'd seen!!

They really did turn out great and looked just as good, if not better than one of my friends who spent over $700 on her invites!!!

Let me know if you have any other questions. I recently planned my entire wedding and had some creative ways to save money!

Good luck!

Answer 6

walmart, michaels, jo-anns, all have do it yourself wedding invitations. also there are alot of online sites you can get ideas from. DIY is great because you can make them fun funky and personal. i am going to michaels and get their DIY cards to make funky cards that everyone will always remember. best of luck

Answer 7

I actually got mine at WalMart and printed them on the computer.  I think they look great! Inside the box you will be given a web site to go to that gives the templates for the invite that you have picked out. Mine have intertwined silver hearts at the top. Once you go to the web site, you can chose the print style and color you want and put your information in.  They even help with the wording. It was really easy and like I said, I think they look great. I paid about $15 for a box of 40.  

Answer 8

My sister printed her own invites for her wedding, and they were nice...but they looked like they had been printed on a printer.  In some places the ink smeared a bit.  For some brides, that would be a deal breaker, for my sister it wasn't, she didn't want to spend the $$ on something that most people would simply mark the date on their calandars and toss the invite into their circular filing cabinet.  

If you want professionally printed invites, there are many sources.  Look in your local yellow pages under stationers/stationery, or even wedding or party invitations.  Hallmark and most card stores have places where you can order invitations, and you can actually see the invites, however those places will probably be the most expensive.  Most online retailers will send you a "proof" of your invite (for an additional charge) prior to your ordering it, so that you can hold it, see the paper, see the printing, etc.  

Planning a wedding is all about making choices, unless you have an unlimited budget (and most don't) you have to make hard decisions about where to save your pennies, and where to spend them.  Invitations are one area that you can DIY, with relative success.  Good luck!

Answer 9

I ordered mine from an online site solely because I wanted the thermograph (slightly raised) printing.

However, the design I chose was one that I could've easily duplicated at home (with flat printing) since it's otherwise plain, colored card stock with a horizontal layout. (If I want ribbons on them, I can punch holes and buy a spool of ribbon cheaper than what I'd get charged through an invite place.)

Many layered-style invites can be done at home since they're often plain, colored card stock on top of other plain, colored card stock. Most of the online places that offer layered invites don't even put them together (without charging another $1 per invitation) - you do that at home with double-sided tape - why pay extra for the supplies? If you want professional printing, purchase the single-layer variety to save money, trim them down a small amount (how much depends what kind of area you have bordering the wording), and attach them to a coordinating colored stock bought at Wal-Mart or an office supply store. Craft scissors could lend a decorative edge to the project, as would the specialty-shape hole-punches.

Vellum can be purchased at a reasonable price if you want it for a top layer, and inkjet printing works fine on it with enough dry time.

If you want one of the fancy all-in-one, folds-in-on-itself types; engraving, thermography, or letter-press; light ink on a dark background; laser cut or embossed (without spending a ton of time doing it) designs; or metallic printing, yeah, a professional invitation place is the way to go.

But if none of that sort of thing matters, you can do an excellent representation of many styles seen in catalogs, and you'd have a far broader choice of fonts than what most places offer. Also, you'd still be able to order just envelopes - with pre-printed return address! - from many places if you want a fancier style envelope.

Answer 10

We printed ours from a kit from AC Moore (craft store) and they turned out beautifully. I do agree it depends on the quality of the printer, we used my fiance's mom's office printer which has high quality inks and was super efficient. We did a few samples on the desktop printer in our house and they weren't bad either. The invite kits are very easy to use as well.

My brother ordered his (gorgeous!) invites from Invitations by Dawn and they have some good deals: www.invitationsbydawn.com

Good luck!

Answer 11

I went to a printer and they were way cheaper than ordering them from a website.